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Basement Jaxx". norwegiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012 . Retrieved 14 September 2011. Okay, scratch what I said about "worst" being "relative". Basement Jaxx's sophomore record Rooty has a pretty unbelievable range of hits. Some will range low on this list, others will be remarkably high, but they are all fan favourites. They're songs that people L-O-V-E. And then there is the last single from the Rooty promo cycle, 'Do Your Thing', a remarkably smug piece of car commercial lite-jazz. There are a lot of interesting approaches that the Jaxx hold towards eclecticism, and it's usually fascinating to hear how they bounce genres off one another beyond "dance music meets [blank]". Yet 'Do Your Thing' is defined by one simple equation and little else: ragtime joy times limp house beats equals ugh. It's pretty awful. Search". finnishcharts.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2011 . Retrieved 14 September 2011.

It's a collection of all our popular songs really, a collection where people could get all the main songs that they liked. It seemed like a good idea to put it out now because a lot of people were coming to our shows and didn't really know that a song like " Romeo" was by the same people who did " Where's Your Head At". Our music [across the years] is quite different so it has probably taken people a while to realise that it's all by the same band. So yeah, that was why really. It could be a collection for people who'd only just found out about us, or seen a live show and wanted to get our music. [1]a b Panisch, Alex (26 August 2014). "Catching Up With Basement Jaxx". Out. Here Media Inc. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016 . Retrieved 17 September 2016. Having pushed their energy to the brink, Buxton and Ratcliffe abruptly stop the song. It's kinda cool, but it's also kind of a bad habit the duo have with ending high-energy songs. END YOUR SONGS, DUDES. Kylie Minogue announces new version of Disco album featuring Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware and more". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 9 October 2021. Having seen Basement Jaxx four times in the early 00's, I have to say that this collaboration with the TMO, was a bit of a let down.

Ramachandan, Naman (8 January 2020). " 'Great British Bake Off' Star Nadiya Hussain to Voice CBeebies Show 'What's on Your Head?' ". Variety. An important milestone for Basement Jaxx's career was their role as the opening act for successful French dance group Daft Punk's Daftendirektour. [10] It was around this time that Basement Jaxx began collaborating with vocalist Corrina Joseph, a collaboration that resulted in the single, " Fly Life", which was released by Virgin Records in 1997. Following the success of "Fly Life", the duo signed a record deal with XL, with whom they released their subsequent six albums. [11] 1999–2001: Remedy [ edit ] If you squint, 'Oh My Gosh' and 'Hush Boy' are the first two instalments in an unfinished Vulu Malinga trilogy. Who do we blame for turning these into the Basement Jaxx equivalent of the Hellboy movies? (I mean, those movies are great but we could have done with one more.) a b c "Basement Jaxx". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012 . Retrieved 14 September 2011. From their inception, Basement Jaxx have been a house act reconciling with song, and it's been a rather protracted process. They toyed with Afro-Brazilian hoo-hah for a good few years before they started mashing up ragga, noise, punk, and R&B; in a Brixton sardine tin. Their 1999 debut Remedy seemed an unexpected explosion of fecundity from sorry old house music, but it was the result of five years in the lab. And it was only on 2003's Kish Kash that they finally, fully embraced verse/chorus/verse structures. It won them a Grammy, but it may have been too late. Even in England, dance music feels all but dead, as fragmented and niche-oriented as that late-80s moment before house. The choice the Jaxx now seem to face is between fully embracing pop (as producers, though Felix Buxton has a lovely singing voice), or retreating to the safety (and reduced vision) of dance.John Bush. "Rooty". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010 . Retrieved 19 April 2012. a b "Basement Jaxx". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 . Retrieved 14 September 2011. All except noted: "Basement Jaxx". australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010 . Retrieved 14 September 2011. Ramundi, Julian (15 April 2019). "Live Review: Basement Jaxx vs. The Metropolitan Orchestra bring the Baroque Bangers to the Sydney Opera House". The AU Review . Retrieved 23 November 2020. Conway, Orla (15 April 2015). "An Interview with Basement Jaxx". The University Times. Trinity College, Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016 . Retrieved 16 September 2016.

Buxton sings "when I want you / I'll follow you" at the song's closing, and it sounds more like a heartfelt vow than a stalker's mission statement. The Auto-Tune helps. Evan Sawdey (21 September 2009). "Basement Jaxx: Scars". Pop Matters. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012 . Retrieved 8 September 2011.ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 27 December 2021.