― Barima (Barima), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link
Any idea whether Basement Jaxx plan to release a bsides/remix compilation for Kish Kash after all the singles have been released - like they did for Rooty and Remedy - it's one of the many things I love the Jaxx for.
― jedmond, Friday, 23 January 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 20 September 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― etc, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Flippin' heck that Jaxx album's a bit of a flailing over-egged pudding isn't it? I suppose if your founding premise is "more is more" then it's a bit hard to back away from that or scale it down. The record only really gets enjoyable for me at the point where most reviewers seems to think it starts to flag, 2/3 the way through when it calms down a lot and empties out a bit. Otherwise it's just way crammed and fizzing with whizzing clever bits. It's like they're trying to throw the wildest grooviest party ever with the most eclectic soundtrack and the most unexplected guests (well the Siouxsie track is great admittedly), but it's all a bit strained and strenous.
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I would like to hear a big & rich + basement jaxx collab and accompanying hysteria (both sides)
― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
This is easily my favorite of the Jaxx albums even with the utterly snoozeworthy "Supersonic" smack dab in the middle messing up the flow.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
You changed your tune, so to speak*.
*See ILM 2000-2004 Albums Poll - Ed.
― BARMS, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio can't find his goddamn password, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Not really, I've always liked it a lot, it's just one of the weaker tracks on a solid, consistent, wondrous piece of work. I just thought Dan's comment was way OTT (surprise surprise).
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
SHOW ME YOU'RE A MAN! SHOOOOOW MEEEE YOU'RRRRE AAA MANNNN!"
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio can't find his goddamn password, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio can't find his goddamn password, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
There are exceptions though...
Search: La Cienda Honduras's cover of Chic's "Everybody Dance" from 2001
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I just don't rate Senghore, never have. So much hype and always disappointing, for me.
I probably like Remedy best of all the records, but I am so sick of Urban Outfitters staff asking me to play Basement Jaxx that I think I will one day hate them with a fever. The sentence "This is depressing, put on Basement Jaxx" actually makes my blood boil, particularly when "depressing" seems to equal anything which pauses for breath.
"Jus One Kiss" and the more purified anonymous stuff I can still handle but the mental Jaxx type stuff just annoys me now, which is kind of sad.
I sometimes think working in a record store really makes you come face to face with your own taste in a very real way, and you kind of drop alot of stuff that fitted into a nice eclectic music view you had before in favour of ploughing down certain avenues, not necessarily all one genre either.
I dunno, I just don't like Basement Jaxx anymore really.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Was Senghore ever hyped? really?
I get blank stares from techno/house DJs everywhere in the states when I mention Senghore. The only people I have met who are fanatics as I luckily run a dance record store in Seattle.
I love Senghore.. then again, I like the weird synth noises and what not. Same with some Hakan Lidbo. To each his/her own I guess.
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
btw, the dialogue upthread is one reason I try to keep myself from posting about a hyped album I've only heard once or twice. I still think Kish Kash is a saggy whole, but individual tracks are masterstrokes once you find the core track underneath all the bells and whistles.
― miccio can't find his goddamn password, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
It's one thing I swore I would never do. And I never have.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
And Dan, haven't you heard that Jaxx b-side? I can't believe they attacked you like that!
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link