New Basement Jaxx

Oh, I never even heard of that.

producing a song on the new cyndi lauper album???

That actually makes a strange kind of sense.

Yeah, but the All Seeing I produced a track on Britney's first album.

Then were never seen again! all that dosh, prob.

also working with kele from bloc party if the track they played out in manchester recently is to go on.

Yeah, but the All Seeing I produced a track on Britney's first album.

No, they mailed over the backing track for a song that had already been on their own album.

They have remixed the new Adele single. Jaxx by numbers, not bad as such but eclipsed by the v good Rosko remix.

I fear they have jumped the shark, pure and simple.

kish kash :-\

wonder if they'll bounce back.

i liked their first two, kk not so much

no?

i should give it a spin now... omg... FIVE YEARS after the fact??

wo

srsly guys? kish kash is my favorite of all their records :(

yeah last album + adele remix = shark jump.
but their recent DJing = oh my gosh!!!

I have this feeling their new record (whenever it appears) will be really good.

kish kash is my favorite as well.

I love Kish Kash, while it's not a patch on the first couple of albums it's a hell of a lot better than Crazy Itch Radio and has more than its share of awesome singles.

The first two singles from CIR are both incredible, the rest of the album not so much.

crazy itch radio is neither.

is their recent djing really that awesome?? :( man i wish i could see them. i never see that they're playing in london

I saw them DJ in London last November, it was very very terrible :(

^^^^ further proof that london clubs & london clubbers = not very good

possibly true! I was afraid they were catering the awfulness to the over-designed cocktail bar crowd, but the first half-hour was incessant trebly blog-house, ADD-mixed into something else every 90 seconds. even their own Roxanne Shante collab was in distorted-treble remix form.

a couple of times they played the intro to some non-b.h. track, eg. um something Prince that I can't remember, and the crowd would get excited and start waving their hands and attempting to dance, but then it would go back to WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP SQUELCCCCH and the sardines would go back to holding their drinks at chin height and attempting to squeeze their shoulders past each others. then I left.

waving their hands, attempting to dance = LOL europe

nah, cos there wasn't room to move feet or knees. or hips. or elbows.

club was a converted hamburger joint - trufax

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1357846205ef6f6a/

OMG LEGITIMATE BUMP

is anybody talking about the new album on ILM yet?
Love the cover art.
I like Raindrops! http://www.4shared.com/file/104151866/3dfbf8fb/Raindrops.html

Not a huge fan of Raindrops myself, maybe it'll grow on me. Looking forward to seeing them at Big Chill in August.

looking forward to the tune with kele i heard *18 months ago*. if it's on the album mind.

I think "Raindrops" is a bag of sick, a really fucking stupid song that is a subpar recycling of previous Basement Jaxx hits.

Great! I like it!

I dunno, Dan. I'm loving "raindrops" more than anything off their last album. I dig the subtle use of AutoTune (sounds like it at least) and the chorus is nothing if not hyper-elevating. The final "I 'll follow you" coo-cooing could've been left out, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r6FhwCxjUc

^ not as bad as him live with them earlier in the year, kinda bearable, but seriously guys wtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHlh2UNiew&feature=related

This is actually kind of good...?

i hated Raindrops first listen, and i still think the vocalist is terrible (not that i'd expect anything less from a BJ single), but it has grown on me tons--still kind of retarded, but in a lovable way. listening to the other new songs i think it's going to be the same deal

weirdly enough the b-side of 'raindrops' was really excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsq9PnHGRg

i have my suspicions about the presence of sam sparro but excited about the santogold one. both can wait until i don't have a head cold.

Enjoying this hugely. The Yoko Ono track is the first time I've heard a vocalist manage to match B.Jaxx for turn-on-a-dime maximalism, and the Kelis track is a nice reminder of Kaleidescope/Wanderland/etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFk3bavv64

okay this is more like what I wanted to hear

Didn't think much of it at first but "Raindrops" keeps popping up in my mind multiple times a day.

dont get how raindrops can be a 'grower' -- its so pretty. i mean if yr not over them not making strict dancefloor music at THIS point .... i guess it wasnt that weird of a song

I might agree with that point if I thought "Raindrops" was pretty. I think both "Hey You" and "Take Me Back To Your House" off CIR are much much much much MUCH better.

??? 'raindrops' strikes me much more as a kind of ham-fisted, weary attempt to make a strict dancefloor banger, don't get any sense of even attempted prettiness from it. god, even its basic melody is so tedious and tired.

there's some good stuff on the album (tho), 'scars' with kelis, meleka and chipmunk in particular.

Uk Wuk! Promo copy finally! Cracking now!

This has been on Luisterpaal for a little while but I've honestly been afraid to listen. Crazy Itch Radio did little or nothing for me, and while I love "Raindrops" that is a deeply troubling set of guest vocalists.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE 'LUDES

I like this a lot more than Crazy Itch Radio.

The Yoko Ono track is the first time I've heard a vocalist manage to match B.Jaxx for turn-on-a-dime maximalism, and the Kelis track is a nice reminder of Kaleidescope/Wanderland/etc.

― etc, Monday, August 10, 2009 2:34 PM Bookmark

"Supersonic"! The Yoko track is complete insanity, but let us not forget that one.

I didn't like this very much when I listened :-(