Remedy - Basement Jaxx

Advantages: Original, intelligent, different to most other predictable, cheesy dance music thatis around at the moment.
Disadvantages: One track: Bingo Bango. Let's the side down a bit.

So. I'm white dot bloke am I? What kind of stupid system is this? I'm not impressed with Ciao at the moment, what with crappy pay systems, derogatory community ratings, etc. but I was bored, so I decided to put another opinion on the site. So I looked through my music collection. Because my music collection rules. Apart from my Limp Bizkit CD, but the less I say about that, the better. But sifting through my albums, some of which are scattered across ...
...And remembering how much I liked it last time I listened to it, I put it on. And somehow, after about a year of not listening to it, it sounds even better than it did before. Perhaps this is a result of the sad state the music industry is in today, which has forced me to lower my standards musically. But one thing that is for sure is that this album is a classic. Everyone should own this. And if you don't own it, why not? The Basement Jaxx boys, ... Read review

Advantages: Good feeling music, very listenable, some single releases
Disadvantages: Very repetitive, too many styles

Basement Jaxx have always been a band that I have admired from afar, but I didn't even consider buying one of their albums, until it was reduced in the sales this year. Although I am happy with my purchase, as the album is a very good one, it does have some quite strong disadvantages, some that are more apparent than others. First off, this is a dance album. And all of the songs on it are dancey. As singles, when they were released, they all sounded ...
...would come along, that, in actual fact was only slightly different to the last release, but this went unnoticed because of the catchy melody and the strong beat that gives off a very positive 'high' mood. As an album, there are far too many songs that are similar sounding put too close together. It makes the entire album sound as though it is a 40-50 minute continuous beat, which, even for a dance lover like myself gets annoying after a short while. ... Read review

Advantages: good mix of musical styles
Disadvantages: hard to sing along to

This CD was one of those items that Brittania music club decided to send me for no reason whatsoever! Initially, I didn't think it was all that but the more I listened to it the more it grew on me. It's not the type of music that you can really pigeonhole. There's all sorts of styles of music on it. Totally different to everything else around at the moment. All the songs are different which is good on an album. There is a mix of musical styles including ...
...of Basement Jaxx through MTV, they played 'Rendez Vous'to death! 'Rendez Vous' is the first song and it is my favourite off the album, although 'Jump 'n' Shout' is pretty jumpy too (excuse the pun!) Some of the songs are a little strange, but it adds to the overall appeal of the album. Change is good :-) The videos for the songs are great too, telling a story in the case of "Red Alert" and "Rendez vous". I have to admit that I have not seen a video ... Read review

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so, the jaxx.which sounds like a character out of mortal kombat, has been known to prpduce some quality dance tunes over the last few years and have been playing on many peoples discmans and steroes as well as in night clubs up and down the country. he is a good mixer of his own tunes, able to combine them well, and lets hope that he continues to bring out some more quality tunes for fans and people who just like good music alike! and the music keeps ... Read review

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Remedy, I believe is Basement Jaxx's first mainstream offering, and it does n't disappoint. So far the single releases of Red Alert, Rendezvous and Bingo Bango have been comparative chart successes, however the album is a quintessential mix of what is good with house music, indeed with Jump ' n ' shout one could almost traverse the house and garage line. Hard hitting baselines are accompanied with a funkier edge in some tracks, all contributing to ... Read review

Advantages: Best Basement Jaxx album, great sound, experimental
Disadvantages: Such a great album, follow up albums were doomed to be poor in comparison

...Remedy is Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton AKA Basementjaxx's debut album. Basment Jaxx have more recently released their greatest hits album, featuring all their greatest hits, but if you were considering to purchase any basement Jaxx album, I would most defiantly recommend it to be this album, 'Remedy'. In most recent album releases by Basement Jaxx', they've progressed and developed a different sound to the album Remdy, a more party pop energetic sound. It should also be noted that you should not judge the sound of basement jaxx purely on their releases. Releases such as 'Where's your head at' and more recently 'oh my gosh' have given basement jaxx a more commercial sound. While it is valid to say the sound of their album releases has progressed towards this sound more recently, Remedy adopts a better, laid back late night sound... Read review

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Advantages: Quite different to "Remedy" and "Rooty" but in a good way, shows they are trying something different, some very catchy songs but also has a few chill out tunes.
Disadvantages: Not many quirky tunes they are so well known for.

...Nobody knows how much I was waiting for "Kish Kash" - Basement Jaxx's new album to be released. Their last offering "Rooty" lived in my CD player for months without being removed! And don't even get me started on "Remedy". Basement Jaxx are one of my favourite bands ever (after Coldplay of course!). I love their music because everything is always different, they will never release a song that sounds similar to the last. Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton make up Basement Jaxx. They usually get different singers to feature on their tracks but one half of the Jaxx; Felix also provides the vocals on a lot of their tracks. Ever since "Remedy", Basement Jaxx have managed to stay fresh and original with every release, which is pretty hard to do, but instead of sticking with the same house element which can get tiresome, they incorporate... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Romeo, Breakaway, Where's your head at
Disadvantages: The a-ludes, SFM

...This is the long awaited follow up to Remedy and the Basement Jaxx boys have definitely been spending the last couple of years creating a corker of an album. It is very different from Remedy, but in my opinion it's much better. The sound is much harder and slightly more adventurous, but it really wordks. The first single "Romeo" is a brilliant piece of dance music, and the other tracks on the album carry on this trend. The Jaxx use random unknown vocalists to provide some really catchy choruses to many of the songs. The stand out tracks include "Breakaway", "Do Your Thing", "Jus 1 Kiss" and the very shouty but very catchy "Where's your head at?". Definitely a worthy comeback and definitely worth a listen if you liked the last the last album, and it still is even if you didn't.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful