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I'm not hearing an american radio song yet.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, you're probably right. the one thing i did notice about this record is that it's kind of anti-pop in an odd way (maybe this is the jaxx's parade, minus "kiss"). it's just too dense to have much impact on either the radio or in clubs.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

certainly nothing as straight forward as "romeo" or as shocking (in that sit up on first listen and go "whu?!" sense but still-has-an-undeniable-chorus as "where's yr head at?".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

I think it could have an impact in clubs. It stomps! It's just that the banging tracks are so dense and have so many twists and turns that it takes time to "learn" them, and there's so many of them one after the other without a real tempo change that you just sort of get steamrollered...

But who cares? It's an absolutely brilliant album and I love it.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 29 August 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Whereas JT pulled off the populist/experimental trick...

Ah, see, this leads into the realm of opinion where I happen to think he didn't do that at all to my satisfaction...but the previous twelve months of this board to thread. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

i can't remember the last time i was this excited to listen to something

listening now and am approaching orgasmic levels of joy

― H (Heruy), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

i find tracks encoded at 192 kbps tend to sound denser generally anyway so maybe SOME some of this is down to the encoding/compression rate?

i'll be buying it on vinyl, twice...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

I could kick Ned right now, but I still really really really want to hear this album.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

> i am going to be really sad if this record does like 35k cuz of people like us. they deserve to sell MILLIONS.

i'll buy it and i know i'm gonna make lots o' ppl buy it

― H (Heruy), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

i'm listening to Chromeo now and as cool as he is, its just making the Jaxx sound even more awesome frankly

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

thank you so much for your hosting, stevem.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

ok maybe the jc chasez could make it on US radio. But it's damn dense.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm...dense vs. post-Timbaland space. There's something to tease out here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

ooh right you are ned!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

297 pointless posts, and then stevem saves the day! :-)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

argh, just tracks 7, 8 and 9 left to go

thanks to toby for letting me get these earlier

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

(i so shd have gone home by now, but i'm worried it won't be there next week)

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

i am now an hour late for a dinner party as i refuse to leave without having burned this.

― H (Heruy), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

you'll be the life of the party when you arrive!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

dont worry it should be there for a while tho i may re-encode at lower quality to try and reduce bandwidth preshaaaa

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

seriously, you rule for doing that.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

that's a very good LP. i shall buy it.
(context: i own but only like half of remedy. i don't own and couldn't get excited by rooty)

thx again, stevem

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

This Dizzee track is the most exciting thing I've heard all year. My co-workers are staring.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

props to stevem once again, you are the greatest.

(and so is this album)

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

thanks to jeir strongro and hence stevem(?), i've gotten a listen.. immediate thoughts:

* i know i'm gonna like this more upon each listen
* even less 4/4 than previously. (anyone who still compares Jaxx to Daft Punk at this point are clearly lame and/or lying).
* seems like they've been listening to Rennie Pilgrem and some recent nu skool breaks type stuff.. thankfully, i think the fusion of that stuff here works well. (my opinion of Fuel/TCR/Fingerlickin/Marine Parade material has declined drastically in recent years. A bunch of it is still great, but far less hits than misses)
* i like everything on this equally. "Good Luck" is amazing.
* this is more different from their previous two records than "rooty" was to "remedy".

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

It's weird about "Good Luck," I'm actually not totally bowled over by it for some reason. It doesn't seem as immediate as "Romeo" was in terms of a 'we are HERE!' start to an album, for me it'll be a grower.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

I kinda like that about "Good Luck" actually. It's not really a "we are HERE!" song. How many times should the Jaxx say "we are HERE", anyway?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

good lord, "lucky star". i've just listened to it..what, 20 times? i keep getting about halfway (with the cut-up bollyvowels) and then wanting to start from the beginning again. it's like this astoundingly choreographed moulin rudeboy thing, but you can witness it again and again and again if you want to! and someone's gonna kick me in the ott for saying this, but how good are dizzee's LYRICS? "i was born in the court of the populace/i want to stand just, put money on trial"!! and the carefully enunciated, slightly upturned "hee" in "society behaves so hee-di-yus-lee" made me exclaim (a soundless) YEAH! and that whispered "this better be my lucky star" over the (relatively) stark one-note riffing, man oh man i've entered corny pop fuxx territory now no doubt but... yeah.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

Cish Cash = Come To Siouxsie

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 29 August 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

Heh heh heh. I want your KOHL!

corny pop fuxx

Fear the new regime!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

(heh, on one of the mammoth threads last week or so nate noted that "corny pop fuxx" sounds like a breakfast cereal)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

Sugar frosted!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

Comes with free Wacky Wall Walker in every box!

I tried downloading this on slsk but the only person who didn't have it queued had CORRUPTED CHIRPY SKIPPING FILES DIE YOU FUXX0R

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

stevem saves us all tho

I am afraid to listen to it now because then I will never get my writing done

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link

"good luck" follows the format of "romeo" exactly.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

This album is exhausting :/

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Saturday, 30 August 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

i am not going to listen to this until i have an actual copy of the cd

― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

thereby beating the rockists at their own game

― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

haha yeah right ethan you funist you

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

matos all i can think about is how much more i wouldve loved the entire b sparxx album if i hadnt heard comin round and jimmy mathis way back in like june, i dont want to ruin kish kash before i get it!! i have secured the review slot for it here at my shitty dance-hating free weekly as well :-/

― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link

its interesting they didn't want to make it a Summer album like the last two in terms of release. Maybe part of our enthusiasm/impatience to hear it is down to the fact many of us regard Basement Jaxx albums as perfect Summer soundtracks in general?

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 30 August 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

So, I'm over on my parent's computer which has just exceeded its download limit so I'm just staring at Stevem's download page in misery.... It'll be at least another week of waiting I guess.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

Tim just randomly delete stuff till you have enough room and get to it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link

ts: old emails from grandma vs r&b sex-ups meet rave anthems

― trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

No Matos it's bandwidth limit - once my dad's modem hits a certain point he starts getting charged like 10 dollars per MB. If it was September it'd be okay but alas it is not and I won't be home for another week probably. But on the bright side - only a week!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

your sainted patience makes me weep. also, you never answered my email from a couple weeks ago--plz check again

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link

yes i did! That date is fine.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 30 August 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link

roxor

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 30 August 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

i still think Club Freaky Trigger should be the unofficial Kish Kash Public Listening Party

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 30 August 2003 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

You people really really love Basement Jaxx don't you?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

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