New Basement Jaxx

"only wack track on Remedy is "Same Old Show""

Rev this is the wrongest thing i've think I've seen from you.

Sorry, it makes me feel claustrophobic and uncomfortable. My dislike of it is very physical.

If that makes sense.

It does, but at the same time I think "Same Old Show" is basically a purified hit of what was so amazing about basement jaxx circa 1999. I sort of feel like they've forgotten how amazing a vibe and friction you can generate just by looping a few carefully selected elements over one another.

'Same Old Show' is probably my least favourite track on 'Remedy' fwiw tho Tim otm about why its a good club track (not quite as much as 'Set Yo Body Free' and a few more of their earlier deep club tracks tho - but then these probably wouldn't have worked as well on the album for that very reason)

tbh if the Jaxx released an album that was 45 minutes of "Samba Magic" I would wholly and unreservedly call them the greatest musical act I'd ever heard

maybe u should check the airto song it samples?

I am and it's awesome!

Somehow I never heard "Samba Magic" until I sought it out yesterday and it completely owned me.

ftr the Airto sonf deej mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zUNmoKU9UE

song, even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfDp-e9t0w&feature=related

btw, annoying clipping aside this is pretty awesome; like this lady's vocals a ton

best track off CIR still 'Smoke Bubbles' for me

that one is also pretty hot, yeah

still hate "Raindrops" btw

okay playing this now

5 songs in and only "Scars" is actually worth listening to. "Weedy" is exactly how I would describe my listening experience; it's almost like they cut the core out of every song as part of the mastering process.

wholly awesome art tho

"My Turn" is decent, actually! So that's two songs out of 6 that I like plus one that is okay ("Saga"), two I never want to hear again ("Raindrops", "Feelings Gone") and one I actually can't remember even though I just heard it ("She's No Good").

never been able to hear "Smoke Bubbles" as its own song because of how much it rips off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNajx1cD5T4

u of all people should understand the difference between sampling/interpolating & 'ripping off' -- same guitar part but totally diff tracks

In theory, yeah. Sometimes it's hard to dissasociate these things in practice, though.

listening to their Zephyr EP thing now - seems to be a more laidback experimental affair

i think this album was drastically underrated

There are only 4 songs on it that I really ever want to hear again ("Scars", "My Turn", "Twerk", "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)").

I forgot how completely insane the Yoko track is

xpost. Add Raindrops to that list and I'm with you.

no way, that song is garbage

"Raindrops" is pretty awesome imo

? No accounting for taste I guess. It just seems like a classic BJ song in every way. Anyway, 4 or 5 awesome tracks on an album isn't that bad these days. Plus, that pretty much describes their last three albums in my opinion, so pretty much par for the course.

took me a while to realize that

I'm not going to go to the mat for Crazy Itch Radio because life is too short and the bad tracks on there are pretty bad, even if there are only 2 of them, but saying there are only 4 or 5 awesome tracks on Kish Kash is just nonsense. Even the songs I find dubious ("Supersonic", "Tonight") are way, way, WAY better than the average level of quality on Scars.

Fair enough. Kish Kash is pretty awesome but not without filler. Without going through it track by track, there's probably still only 6 or 7 tracks that I really like. Scars is a little bit disappointing overall but the good songs are as good as anything they've done before.

I like it.
http://pitchfork.com/news/50302-listen-new-basement-jaxx-single-back-2-the-wild/
did this get discussed already?

also
http://thump.vice.com/words/basement-jaxx0back-2-the-wild-gorgon-jaxx-dub

i just realised they had a new single today. haha wow. it's sad days when not even ILM can rouse itself to talk about a new jaxx single.

ha well, that's kind of what happens when you suddenly become super terrible

aw, back 2 the wild was pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8tpaxaipU

kinda meh?

Headlining that Alex James/Jamie Oliver festival, aren't they? The one where the former will be photographed with Cameron and Clarkson and the latter will play drums for Toploader.

Mind you, they could redeem themselves by playing a conceptual show about the wonderfulness of the NHS.

ha well, that's kind of what happens when you suddenly become super terrible

didn't this happen circa 2001?

No results found for "Amish Techno Fan".

I sort of feel like they've forgotten how amazing a vibe and friction you can generate just by looping a few carefully selected elements over one another.

remember house music?

Yes, but the greatness of "Same Old Show" (my favourite BJ tune) and "Flylife" are not antithetical to the greatness of Rooty and Kish Kash except for an insane prince of false binaries

so what you're saying is i'm insane to dislike rooty and kish kash

not sure what the false binary is here, i mean i guess "basement jaxx were good when doing house music and not so good when not doing house music" is sort of a binary but it's more a matter of taste than a matter of logic

so what you're saying is i'm insane to dislike rooty and kish kash

jokes bruv.

I feel like what we see with BJ's development is much more of a typical arc where an artist comes up with a distinctive take on genre X, then gradually detaches that which is distinctive from the specific genre form such that it can be deployed in a variety of settings, but it's like from that point onwards a clock starts ticking and the shelf-life of the production aesthetic is limited when trying to survive out there all on its ownsome.

So, sure, in Kish Kash (less so Rooty which is still mostly house and barely less genre-loyalist then Remedy) you can see the seeds of their subsequent deterioration, but to describe everything after Remedy as super-terrible seems to me the equivalent of dismissing all techstep ever because it got super-boring after a while.

Feel certain that if Cameron is seen boogying to Basement Jaxx with Alex 'n' Jamie 'n' Clarkson that should be enough to finish him off.

I know there hasn't been a good Basement Jaxx album in a decade but this new one... isn't bad at all. It's like all the developments in British dance music over the past two years have given them license to jump back on their own bandwagon rather than just churning out another aimless pick-and-mix record.

Only halfway through, mind, it may yet fall off a cliff.

It does fall off a cliff, unfortunately.

What's the News is pushing my buttons in a good way. How much longer before I get to the cliff?