New Basement Jaxx

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?

You're right on the precipice.

be that as it may, i am deeply infatuated with mermaid of salinas which gets stuck in my head on a nearly daily basis

The first half of this album feels like they took every song on Scars that didn't work and woodsheded them into something good-to-awesome

ha for a second i thought this was the zach braff thread and i only half-understood dan's post

hahaha

btw this is maybe just me but holy shit @ "Buffalo", that is my shit right there

hyped
http://cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-basement-jaxx/

tonight!
with Masters at Work, The Internet and Fei Fei

Nothing new, afaik, but I was listening to "Kish Kash" and one of my kids said "this sounds like flying monkeys crossed with Bollywood," and I said OTM, and she said that was not a compliment.

But are your kids at least using words like "OTM"?

no.