Latest Release
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- 17 MAY 2024
- 2 Songs
- Rooty · 2001
- Rooty · 2001
- Remedy · 1999
- Kish Kash · 2004
- Where's Your Head At - EP · 2001
- Rooty · 2001
- The Singles · 2005
- Rooty · 2001
- The Singles · 2001
- The Singles · 1999
Essential Albums
- Dance music simply doesn’t get more boisterous than on Basement Jaxx’s rousing second album. House, funk and UK garage beats meet gospel vocals, carnival chants and wall-of-sound production influenced by Public Enemy. “Broken Dreams” turns ‘60s easy listening into surrealistic, futuristic pop and “Where’s Your Head At” audaciously pairs punk and electro, while the sultry “Sfm” adopts Timbaland’s slinky shuffle. “Jus 1 Kiss” and “Romeo”, meanwhile, are as rowdy as a five-year-old’s birthday party. It’s deliriously unhinged from top to bottom.
- Lock up your valuables and hide the liquor—playing Basement Jaxx's debut album is known to spark spontaneous house parties. A decade after acid house first swept the UK, the South London duo went back to basics, supercharging tunes modelled on New York acts like Masters at Work with a heavy dose of funk. Tearing up the rulebook, they threw in salsa keys, Spanish guitars, speed-garage basslines and Caribbean toasting; the result is an antic celebration of dance music at its most boisterous.
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Artist Playlists
- A giddy, zigzagging mix of unlikely musical touches and barnstorming dance music.
- Buckle up: This playlist is a passport to the funkiest grooves from around the world.
About Basement Jaxx
With their freewheeling, genre-flipping approach to house music, British duo Basement Jaxx became one of the biggest names in electronic music in the late ’90s and early 2000s. • Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton started Basement Jaxx as a club night in Brixton, South London, in 1994. Ratcliffe had previously recorded under the names Tic Tac Toe and Helicopter, while Buxton had worked as a house DJ throughout London. • After a series of EPs, the duo released their debut album, Remedy, in 1999. It went platinum in the UK and yielded two Top 5 singles: “Red Alert” and “Rendez-Vu”. In the US, both of those singles, as well as “Bingo Bango”, topped Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart. • French dance demigods Daft Punk invited Basement Jaxx to be their opening act for their first UK shows. • Their 2001 sophomore album, Rooty, spawned two more Top 10 UK hits: “Romeo” and the rowdy “Where’s Your Head At”, which samples a pair of songs by UK New Wave hero Gary Numan. Both went Top 5 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs in the US. • Featuring everyone from goth icon Siouxsie Sioux to grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal, the duo’s third album, 2003’s Kish Kash, reached a career-best No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The LP earned Basement Jaxx a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album. • The twosome won Best Dance Act at the BRIT Awards in 2002 and 2004. • Their 2005 greatest-hits album, The Singles, arrived with two new songs—one of which, “Oh My Gosh”, reached No. 8 in the UK, giving Basement Jaxx their fifth Top 10 single. • As befits their naturally cinematic sound, Basement Jaxx have scored two films: Attack the Block and a documentary on hula hooping called The Hooping Life.
- ORIGIN
- London, England
- FORMED
- 1994
- GENRE
- Dance