Basement Jaxx: Basement Jaxx back on the beats with tour, 'Scars'

Basement Jaxx, the British duo responsible for some of the most infectious dance floor anthems of the last decade, is following the release of its latest studio album with a series of rare North American DJ dates this fall, including tonight at the Congress Theater.
For "Scars," the group's fifth album, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe enlisted Yoko Ono, Kelis, Santigold, blue eyed soul newcomers Sam Sparro and Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Amp Fiddler and Bellrays singer Lisa Kekaula, among others.
The album kicks off with an operatic intro before the title track's stuttering half time beats compete with the band's signature kitchen sink of noise. "Twerk" is an electro-laden floor-filler that riffs on "Maniac" from "Flashdance," anchored by a Yo Majesty rap. "She's No Good" turns Lightspeed Champion's vocal chant into a funkified call-and-response, while "Raindrops" gives Buxton's own vocals the Auto-Tune treatment. Ono lends her vocals to "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)," while Santigold's ska-tinged track is called "Saga."
The group also recorded a second, still untitled set of "Pink Floyd-y, more ambient-y stuff," according to Buxton. "That's going to come out as probably a mini LP afterward, more for bathtime music."
Fans at tonight's show will see the band's massive, circus like show, which includes an ever evolving crew of 20 or so singers and dancers.

Basement Jaxx Embrace presents

Basement Jaxx are a critically acclaimed English house music duo comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. Started Basement Jaxx in Brixton, South London, UK in 1994, where they held a regular club night called Rooty, which would later become the name of their second artist album (Rooty). In addition to Rooty, their other albums include Kish Kash with the title track sung by Siouxsie, Remedy, The Singles and Crazy Itch Radio. Kish Kash won the 2004 Grammy for best dance album and was their most critically acclaimed album for its innovative sound. They also won BRIT awards in 2002 and 2004, both for Best British Dance Act. In addition to their own work, Basement Jaxx have become in demand remixers. Tracks such as 4 My People (which became a massive chart and club hit), PlayLike I Love You and PlayShe Wants to Move have all had the Basement Jaxx remix treatment.In 2005, Basement Jaxx headlined the UK’s Glastonbury festival as a replacement for Kylie Minogue. In 2006 they were support to Robbie Williamson Robbies “Close Encounters”-Tour.The production duo got their name from the location of the studio where they recorded their first EP - it was located in the basement of friends of Simon Ratcliffe. Currently the Tate Modern invited the duo to write music inspired by a piece of art featured in the gallery. Karel Appellis’s Hip Hip Hoorah! ended up being the inspiring work. There are only two places in the world you can hear it - in the gallery or its official site.

Basement Jaxx new music report

The “Christian Rock” pick in this week’s New Music Report (contributing editor Christian Hoard’s current fave) is Scars, the fifth album from British house duo Basement Jaxx. The group’s 2001 album Rooty featured the hit “Romeo,” which charted in the States thanks to its synthetic yet warm vibe, and Scars is their best album since then. All the tracks are all sung by guest vocalists including Santigold and Kelis, as well as smaller names like Paloma Faith, who takes the lead on “What’s a Girl Got to Do.” It’s a song that’s ready for an iPod commercial with its clipped disco groove, keyboard stabs and rejiggered New Orleans brass.
The beats on Scars are often stronger than the songs, but when Basement Jaxx get a hot beat and a hot tune together you get something magical: progressive pop. It is dance music that can venture into the cheesy — but it’s a good cheesy.

For Good Vibrations the Killers and Basement Jaxx

Headline to the Killers will Good Vibrations 2010 with Basement Jaxx and Armand Van Helden also joining the stellar line up.
In February is Good Vibration in Sydney, Perth, Gold Coast and Melbourne.
Also announced were Gossip, Busta Rhymes, Salt-N-Pepa, Friendly Fires, Z-Trip, Naughty By Nature, Plump DJs, Gym Class Heroes, Chas & Statud, Dave Deaman, DJ Craze, Chuckie, Art vs Science, Bass Kelph, Sam Obernik and Killaqueenz.
Dates are:
Sydney, Centennial Park - Saturday 13 FebruaryPerth, Claremont Showground - Sunday 14 FebruaryGold Coast, Parklands Showgrounds - Saturday 20 FebruaryMelbourne, The Nursery, Flemington Racecourse – Sunday 21 February

Basement Jaxx: Adam Ant Inspiration Felix Buxton reveals

Basement Jaxx returning dance giants have revealed their childhood love of Adam and the Ants.
Basement Jaxx began life as a group of DJs on London's always bustling dance scene. The turntablists quickly realised that they knew their dancefloor better than anyone and began crafting their own tracks.
Chart stardom followed before the duo decided to take a short break. This year with a new album returning, Basement Jaxx stunned fans with a series of sizzling festivals at RockNess and beyond.
Releasing 'Scars' towards the end of the summer Basement Jaxx topped a sensational comeback with more chart success. However in a new interview the band have revealed their childhood love of another chart star - Adam Ant.
"I was a massive Adam and the Ants fan until they got too silly and camp" Felix Buxton told Pitchfork. "But 'Kings of the Wild Frontier' was actually cool and tribal. He's got the great line in that song: "I feel beneath the white there is a red skin suffering from centuries of taming." I thought he was a real wild boy trapped in civilized society."
"I related to that growing up whenever I used to play cowboys and Indians I always thought the Indians were the cool ones."
The Basement Jaxx producer also revealed that he retains an admiration for The Police. "I was trying to work out which tribe I belonged to and I finally realized that I didn't belong in any of them, exactly."
"But I did like the Police because my sister's friend drew footages of them and I had these hand drawn pictures on my bedroom wall. I used to try and sing like Sting I could sound pretty much like him on a few songs because my voice hadn't broken yet. At this point, it's very uncool to like Sting because he's so pretentious. He's annoying but talented."

New Album Surrounded by Drama, Basement Jaxx

It's unlikely that Simon Ratcliffe will forget the night he spent sitting next to a crack freak with no legs. Surprisingly, the unfortunate man was the least of the Basement Jaxx member's worries. Ratcliffe was in New York for a recording session for the London based dance duo's fifth album, 'Scars,' which was released Tuesday, when he received a phone call informing him that his wife and baby daughter had been taken to a hospital. It was one of the rare occasions that Ratcliffe had his family with him while working, and the news was particularly disturbing as his daughter was only several weeks old. "It was actually stressful. It was particularly scary, her being newborn, they're such fragile little things," Ratcliffe tells Spinner. The sudden illness, which was due to a virus, had Ratcliffe so disturbed that he rushed to the hospital. "I spent the night in the emergency room at St. Vincent's hospital sitting next to a crack addict with no legs," he says with an incredulous sigh. His wife and daughter recovered and were fine. Did the incident or his colorful ER companion inspire any songs? "I didn't get a song out of it this time, but maybe for the next record," he laughs.Really, it was his Basement Jaxx Partner Felix Buxton's personal crisis that shaped the album. "Felix was writing were about the personal dramas in his life, mostly his efforts trying to find a good woman. Along the way he's had, yeah, dramatic moments," offers Ratcliffe. Still, the record isn't a mopey affair; Its upbeat vibe comes from living to tell the tale. "Part of life is picking yourself up and dusting yourself off and being proud of who you are. It's just living, actually."

'Musical collision' Basement Jaxx's

Basement Jaxx have revealed their new album Scars will be a "collision" of styles thanks to the change artists they have collaborated with.
Felix Buxton said: "The new album is obviously new, it's got elements of the early Basement Jaxx and it's got where we are now, and effectively, the guests we've got on there makes it a change musical collision than we had before, with people like Yoko Ono, Santogold and Sam Sparro.
"Obviously they all bring their vibe to the thing as well, so it's us going out into the world a bit more rather than just being stuck in Brixton."

SCARS Basement Jaxx

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Basement Jaxx: Scars

Basement Jaxx's Scars arrives after a troubled gestational period, with the duo citing numerous changes, both personal and musical, as leaving them feeling 'a bit lost'. After four albums and with many of their contemporaries having faded from the public view somewhat, it seemed that the Brixton duo had reached something of an impasse. Having dabbled with a darker minimalist sound, it was as currently as the turn of the year that the duo decided to up the positivity, citing their hearing of Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden's 'Bonkers' as a inspiration for this change.
Consequently, lead single 'Raindrops' was intentionally written in the mould of singles like 'Romeo' and 'Red Alert' etc. Perhaps naturally, it's no revelation musically, but it is undeniably great dance-pop; arriving on waves of fuzzy synths, subdued bass-heavy verses bursting into a typically catchy chorus that is at once glistening and pounding. Disappointingly it is the only track to feature the band's Felix Buxton on lead vocals, as he is easily the equal of many of the guest vocalists. Despite being heavily auto-tuned he provides one of the album's most sensual moments when he proclaims "Your moisture drips upon my lips just like a waterfall straight through the heart of me".
Follow-up single 'Feelings Gone' is a sumptuous up-tempo ballad dripping with sentimental string samples and a surprisingly affecting vocal from Sam Sparro. It's the first track in a trio of early-to-mid album tracks which demonstrate that Basement Jaxx didn't completely forsake the melancholic roots of Scars. 'My Turn' sounds almost like one of guest vocalist Lightspeed Champion's own, the marriage between taut distorted synth bass and his genteel acoustic picking sounding suprisingly natural. The beautiful 'A Possibility' features gossamer-delicate slide guitar that may fool you into thinking you are still listening to Lightspeed Champion, although vocalist Amp Fiddler utilises more soulful intonation while the languid pacing coupled with electronic tics recalls Sophtware Slump-era Grandaddy.
It's a typically expansive roll call of guest vocalists to match. The album opens with the Timbaland indebted title-track featuring Kelis, Meleka and Chipmunk. That's two vocalists too many, and the song lacks a focal point, but the emphatic low-end, crisp beats and irresistibly sweeping choral-synths win out in the end. 'Saga' is a successful experiment in crossing grimy synthetic breeds of dancehall and ska with Santigold sounding suitably embittered for a track which Buxton says he wrote quickly as an act of mid-separation catharsis. Of the lesser-known guest spots the decision to get Lisa Kekaula (of The Bellrays) to purr over Junior Boys-esque blocks of hazy synth and crisp frigid rhythms was particularly inspired.
Inevitably there are a number of less successful tracks. Paloma Faith's sassy vocal contribution on 'What's a Girl Got To Do?' feels forced and the cabaret music further makes Faith sound unfortunately like the fourth Puppini sister. 'D.I.S.Tractionz' boasts fantastic string/vibraphone interplay, but is let down by singer Jose Hendrix's lack of presence. The highest profile guest slot is undoubtedly Yoko Ono; the stridently simple beat, driving bass and aqueous synth washes make 'Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)' one of the musical highlights and Ono's chanting on the chorus is infectious. Unfortunately her nonsensical rantings about "20,000 fishes flying down from the sky" on the verse will make you cringe, whilst her simulation of orgasmic gasping near the song's climax (ahem) will simply make you shudder.
Scars' abundance of collaborators doesn't really allow Basement Jaxx to stamp their personality on the music, which is a shame, especially considering its fraught origins However, perhaps this is a little too much to expect from a duo who specialize in maximalist dance floor fillers and whose boundless energy and eclecticism is a form of catharsis in itself. If Basement Jaxx want to hide their scars behind such esily enjoyable and well constructed pop music, then long may they continue.

'Scars' Basement Jaxx, Album review

"Scars" (Ultra/XL), the fifth album from British production duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton, again matches an array of guest vocalists with globe trotting electro beats. Emerging from the ‘90s U.K. rave scene and its futuristic take on Chicago house, the Jaxx began edging into pop district by showcasing distinctive vocalists on their 2002 landmark “Kish Kash.” Tying together hip hop, indie rock and all points in between, “Scars” continues in that vein. The duo gets the most out of some sassy newcomers (Yo Majesty, Santigold), and throws a bass rattling update of her classic “Walking on Thin Ice” at Yoko Ono, who warbles like only Ono can in a mesmerizing performance. But when the duo veers off the dancefloor and into more nuanced, low key district on tracks fronted by Lightspeed Champion, Amp Fiddler, Jose Hendrix, Jose James and the BellRays’ Lisa Kekaula, the lack of rhythmic punch derails the album. Perhaps Ratcliffe and Buxton are striving to prove they can do more than just throw a great party, but their songwriting is more persuasive when the beats are booming.

Basement Jaxx Scars

Some bands enjoy years of success, with all the canonical peaks and troughs; yet over time become disorientated with the original plot the rudimentary goal which drove them to their craft to begin with. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe have been on a decade long journey which has awarded them ticks in all the desired boxes. But not until now have they felt the full effects from the long slog."There's a good reason why the new record is called Scars," said Felix in our recent interview. "Making it has been a grueling process. When we completed recording, it felt like we'd come out of a boxing ring". It translates. Scars is a meticulously well thought out record that reflects patience and a genuine scholastic approach to the genre; although not the record that they initially intended to write. "It's a very different record to the one we originally set out to make, it's changed a lot in the last six months." The original catalyst was a chance meet and great with Yoko Ono, which over the the weeks, evolved into a musical collaboration. That track 'Day of Sunflowers' sees a powerful stanza delivered by the shrieker of peace over a robust bass line - a stand out track on the album.The collaborations flow in a creative stream throughout the whole record. Eli Paper Boy Reed contributes driving '50s style vocals over the top of an addictive foot tapper. 'She's No Good'; a personal reflection piece for Buxton, touching on the subject of a relationship abroad and the lamentable ending to which it came. 'Saga' is topically similar with a beat that plays to guest Santigold's strengths. Yo Majesty, Paloma Faith and Sam Sparro make cameos elsewhere, the latter on most recent single 'Feeling's Gone'.

Initially concerned about the album taking a dark direction, Buxton and Ratcliffe strategically placed the no brainer 'Raindrops' into proceedings. "The idea was to do something that felt similar and make a track for clubs," said Simon. For anyone who was magnetised to the Basement Jaxx sound via previous floor filler 'Where's Your Head', 'Raindrops' follows suit. As dance music continues to evolve at a rapid rate, the mainstays are few and far between. Basement Jaxx continue to sample from the fountain of youth and remain at the forefront of popular music as a result.

Basement Jaxx and Hockey to Music Weekly

The dance duo talk about working with Yoko Ono, plus there's music from Portland noise poppers Hockey

This week, we kick off with chat from Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, better known as dance duo Basement Jaxx. The boys return later this month with their fifth album, Scars, and Alex Needham spoke to them about get togethering with Yoko Ono, why Brixton is losing its edge and how they have managed to sustain a working relationship for 15 years.
Fast forward to Singles Club and Paul MacInnes is joined by Rosie Swash and Michael Hann to discuss the excellent in new music. There's dippy funk pop from the Phenomenal Handclap Band's 15 to 20, another slab of noise pop from LA duo No Age's single Losing Feeling, and Battles singer Tyondai Braxton offers a bonkers 10 minute solo constitution.
There's more chat with Portland's Hockey, the band behind summer smash* Too Fake. They're just about to release their first appearance album, Mind Chaos, and Rosie finds out their favourite live experiences, which include a flesh hanging party. Really.
Paul Lester signs off with Feature With No Name, in which he recalls the Swedish dream pop radical the Radio Dept.
So that's your lot. Tell us what you think of this week's show, guests and music, while we play you out with an exclusive version of Hockey's Song Away, performed live just for you.
*By "smash" we really mean, "You'll likely hear this and go 'Oh, I've heard this song before, didn't know it was by Hockey'".

Editors, Basement Jaxx: Fatboy Slim to launch Oxjam gigs

Editors, Basement Jaxx, Just Jack and Fatboy Slim are among the acts announced to launch this year's Oxjam month of music, arranger have announced.The acts will play gigs in a secret Oxfam shop in London with a 150-person capacity in aid of the charity this September and October.VV Brown and Tony Allen are also set to play gigs to start the Oxjam month of music. The gigs will help kick off thousands of other fundraising music events to take place across the country in aid of Oxfam.The 2009 Oxjam month of music will climax on October 25, with the Oxjam Takeover, which will see more than 2000 musicians fill over 150 venues in more than 20 cities to raise funds for Oxfam. As well as raising money for Oxfam, this year's campaign will be focusing on climate change, with gig goers being encouraged to sign up to Oxfam's blue faces campaign. By encouraging people to paint their faces blue, the campaign aims to get the government to take action on mood change before it's too late.The following acts are confirmed to play Oxjam gigs so far:

VV Brown, Just Jack (September 28)

Tony Allen, Nitin Sawhney, Shlomo (29)

Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx (DJ set), Stereo MCs (DJ set) (30)

Editors, Good Shoes (October 1)

Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday (September 4) from 9am.To look what Oxjam events are happening near you, head to Oxfam.org.uk/oxjam.To check the availability of Oxjam tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
Editors tickets:
Sep 06, 2009 12:00 at Myrtle Park, Bingley - Buy from Seetickets
Oct 19, 2009 19:00 at Colston Hall, Bristol - Buy from Seetickets
Oct 21, 2009 19:30 at Hammersmith Apollo, London - Buy from Seetickets
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Basement Jaxx Set to Reveal Their 'Scars'

There's a reason why Basement Jaxx has toured all summer without releasing its new album. It simply wasn't finished in time for the advised March release date last winter, and a UK tour and worldwide summer festival dates were already booked. "We've done nearly a year's worth of touring and now we've got to do it all again," Simon Ratcliffe jokingly tells Spinner. Indeed, the English accelerating house band's fifth record, 'Scars,' has a new release date of Oct. 6 and the duo begins another UK trek in December with its 12 piece touring band. For now, however, the pair -- Felix Buxton is the other member -- will mark Basement Jaxx's first American show since 2006 with a handful of DJ only dates running Oct. 30 Nov. 7.Despite the release hiccup, the tour was particularly successful, with Basement Jaxx playing main stages as far flung as Japan and, for the first time, South Korea. Ratcliffe and Buxton did a DJ gig there a group of years ago, but this was their first full on live performances. "It's surprising which songs are the most popular in change parts of the world," Ratcliffe says. "In Korea, we were warned that we had to play 'Hot 'n Cold' from our third album 'Kish Kash.' We don't play it commonly, it's not so well known, but over there everyone knows it." Apart from having a fun summer, Ratcliffe says the brilliant side to this pre-album release jaunt was finding audiences were still eager for the dynamic duo's funked up house music. Even new songs like just delivered leadoff single 'Raindrops' were lapped up. "The four songs we play from the album have been going down really well. That's the way it goes," he adds of this tour timing gaff, "you can't always plan these things."

Rare DJ tour of U.S by Basement Jaxx plans

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Basement Jaxx, the British dance music duo accountable for some of the most infectious dance-floor-filling anthems of the past decade, will follow the release of its latest studio album with a series of rare North American DJ dates this fall.
The DJ tour will kick off October 30 in San Francisco and play the HAR Haunted Mansion party in Los Angeles on Halloween before heading to Toronto, Chicago and New York in early November.
"Scars," the group's fifth album, and first to be co-released by Ultra Records and XL, is set for release October 6.
Jaxx's Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe draft a book of notable assistant for their latest project, among them Yoko Ono, Kelis and Santigold.
The duo also has recorded an as-yet-untitled set of "Pink Floyd-y, more ambient-y stuff," according to Buxton. "That's going to come out as like as not a mini LP afterwards," he said, "more for bath time music."
As for the band bringing its apocryphal massive, circus like live show which includes an ever-evolving crew of 20 or so singers and dancers back to the United States, Buxton remains noncommittal. "Up to now, we've been in South America and Australia, and then we're going to be in Japan and Korea, and then we're all around Europe this summer," he said. "If people like the music and actually get into it, then we'll by all appearance come. If they don't, we won't."

Basement Jaxx with Sam Sparro collaborates

Electropop star Sam Sparro has recorded a new single with Basement Jaxx.
The Sydney born singer approved that the track, entitled 'Feelings Gone', will see a UK release in the coming months.
drawing up on his Twitter blog after shooting the video, he said: "That's a wrap!!!! Omigod. This video is going to be happy. I'll send it when it's done. Spag bol will come out yo nose when u see it. (sic)"
Sparro has be concerned with the past months in Los Angeles recording the follow up to his self titled first apparance album.
The star reached number two with break through track 'Black And Gold' in March 2008

Basement Jaxx return to Livepool's Creamfields

Dance legends Basement Jaxx talk to Emma Johnson about their return to Creamfields and life on the road
IF YOU found going to one festival this summer exhausting, extra a thought for Basement Jaxx. The apprentice have pass every weekend in a field since the beginning of June and there is no let up until autumn.
Talk about Where’s Your Head At?
Don’t worry about them too much all the same. One of the most successful dance actions the UK has produced, it’s unlikely that Grammy Award winners Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton are nippimg from plastic cups, waiting line for portaloos and commonly slumming it like the rest of us.
In fact the guys, who earned their festival stripes in 2006 stepping into the crack at Glastonbury after Kylie’s cancer diagnosis forced her to facility her headline channel, are quite enjoying the freedom.
“It’s a long time on the road but that’s how it goes. You concerned with a year or two in the studio doing an album, then you spend another year or so out on the road,” explains Simon, 38. “We have been locked up these last group of years. We DJed a act last year, we had a residency in Ibiza, but we didn’t do that many appearances and now it is time to get back out there.
“The new material is going down well and it’s fun.”
That material Simon belong to comes from the electronic duo’s fifth album Scars, due for release next month.
We have already had a sampler of it in summer single Raindrops and with report that it could be the pair’s last LP (their five album record agreement with XL is coming to an end and the pair have talked about any chance taking time off to run after other projects) Scars is an fervently awaited release.
“This is Basement Jaxx 2009,” says Simon who has been working with Felix since the pair confined over a love of New York house music in the 1990s.
“Like all our albums it’s not really one thing. It’s all different kinds of acceleration and affects.
“It was believably the difficulted album we have done.

THE BIG CHILL FESTIVAL 2009

We went down to Eastnor castle to catch Basement Jaxx and more...

The sun was shining over Eastnor castle this weekend for another great year at The Big Chill festival.
The position had grown for 2009 with The Funky Bison bar, Sailor Jims Rum bar and Mr Scruff’s very own tent adding to the list of places churning out non stop good music.

The ‘derelict drive in’ and film 4 canvas showing back to back movies, comedy sets from the likes of Noel Fielding and the Rankin live canvas all proved popular by the festival goers. While the beautiful weather added to a relaxed atmosphere in the days and performers and DJ’s upped the ante to create a great party atmosphere in the evening.

The main stage appeared bigger and better this year with Basement Jaxx, Orbital, David Bryne, Norman Jay and Hexstatic all treading it’s boards.

Basement Jaxx gave an energetic performance on Friday night kicking off the festival in true style with hits including Romeo, Where’s Your Head At? and new single Raindrops. David Bryne went down well, though his backing dancers nearly stole the show with their unique 80’s moves!

As usual Norman Jay’s annual Sunday set drew in the crowds and nicely bridged the gap between lazy afternoon chill out and a party warm up to set you up for the last evening’s proceedings.

One of the festivals highlights came on Sunday evening from king of audio visual sets Hexstatic who provided their usual ingenious mash up of sounds and sights! The London duo took their set to another level with live breakdancers, capeiro performers and a steel bridle on stage to accompany their classic Salvador mix.

Beat boxer Schlomo also made an electrifying performance battling the DJ’s with renditions of Dizzee Rascal’s Bonkers and Michael Jackson hits. And as if that wasn’t enough they also had a clip of Bert and Ernie singing M.O.P’s Ante up what more could you ask for!

The 2009 Big Chill was a huge success having provided great music, good food, beautiful surroundings and blazing sunshine….you can’t get much better than that!

Basement Jaxx successfull group in UK dance

Basement Jaxx have re-arranged dance giants their upcoming UK tour, with the scheduled dates now set to take place in April, rather than February as was previously announced.

The group of the Basement Jaxx are comeback trail, having been in active since their launched last album 'Crazy Itch Radio' was released in 2006. Comprising of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton, the long-standing dance group are the most popular live acts in the UK, but the duo have not toured in some time.

As was previously announced, Basement Jaxx are set to headline Rock Ness next summer. The first festival appearance they will be the band's in two years, and will mark the return of one of the most successful groups in UK dance.

Basement Jaxx rock Hyde Park

The first of two days was helmed by proven festival faves Basement Jaxx (who played the first Wireless in 2005), and offered three further stages of live music.

Wireless is very much a matinee rave-up, and by the afternoon the Hyde Park site was packed with festival-goers (in various states of sunburn and inebriation), and the main stage featured Jack Penate sweltering in a dreadful jacket (which he sensibly removed several numbers in).

Basement Jaxx New Album Scars

British dance gigantic Basement Jaxx are set to go back with their new album 'Scars' in October.
Basement Jaxx began life as a dynamic DJ duo in London. Shaping the club Rooty, Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton began rotating high energy house music, attracting enormous crowds in the process.
Finally need something a bit different the band began writing their own tracks. Early on hits such as 'Red Alert' went shattering up the charts - Totally mental dance pop that went on to define British music in that period.
The duo went on to discharge several hugely winning albums, with Basement Jaxx becoming one of the major names in British dance music. However after the launch of 'Crazy Itch Radio' in 2006 the group tired of the rigours of the road.

Fans excited for a glance of the new album can head over to the official Basement Jaxx website right away. The duo are at present streaming quite a lot of album tracks, including "Saga" featuring Santigold, "She's No Good" featuring Lightspeed Champion, and "Distrackionz".
Basement Jaxx are due to launch 'Scars' in October. An unverified tracklisting from Play.com is as follows:
1 Raindrops
2 Twerk (ft. Yo Majesty!)
3 Feelings Gone (ft. Eli "Paperboy" Reed and Sam Sparro)
4 Saga (ft. Santigold)
5 My Turn
6 Scars
7 She's No Good (ft. Lightspeed Champion)
8 A Possibility
9 Day Of The Sunflowers (We March On) (ft. Yoko Ono)
10 What's A Girl Got To Do?
11 Gimme Something True
12 Distrackionz

asement Jaxx close opening night at Wireless 2009

Basement Jaxx close opening night at Wireless 2009 in London last night (July 4) with a spectacular stageshow.

The dance duo brought on a full live backing band and staged a special laser show for their headlining performance at Hyde Park.

During the performance the pair also took time to throw in a remix of Kings Of Leon's Number One hit 'Sex On Fire' and they played a few bars of The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army'.

The ever cheers came for the likes of 'Romeo' which was played acoustically by Simon Ratcliffe over Kele Le Roc's powerful vocals, 'Red Alert', signature tune 'Where's Your Head At' and set closer 'Bingo Bango'

Basement Jaxx played:

'Scars'
'Good Luck'
'Twerk'
'Arab Money'
'Oh My Gosh'
'Wheel N' Stop'
'Jus 1 Kiss'
'She's No Good'
'Red Alert'/'Oiz On Fire'
'Raindrops'
'Romeo'
'Feelings Gone'
'Jump N' Shout
'Onyx'
'Seven Nation Army'/'Do Your Thing'
'Daft Pumpkin''
'Nifty'
'Where's Your Head At'
'Rendez-Vu'
'Bingo Bango'

Basement Jaxx is going to perform big O2 Arena

Basement Jaxx to play giant London gig

Group announce O2 Arena show

Basement Jaxx are to perform the the O2 Arena in London.

The group who headlined the Wireless Festival last week on 5th of July, will perform at O2 arena on December 17.

To check the availability of Basement Jaxx Tickets and get all the latest listings
The band is going to launch their fifth studio album, 'Scars', in September.

Basement Jaxx Brief History

The making duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton launched several of Britain's most appreciated and pleasant progressive house anthems of the '90s from their base in South London. Before they met (at a Thames riverboat party structured by Buxton), Ratcliffe ridged to the deep Latin funk of War and George Duke while Buxton was turned on to Chicago house. The pair shaped Atlantic Jaxx Records in 1994 and was certainly privileged to count among fans of their first discharge none other than DJ legend and Basement Jaxx authority Tony Humphries, who played 'Da Underground' from the EP on his New York mixshow time after time during 1994-1995. For their second release, Ratcliffe and Buxton employed vocalist Corrina Josephs, who later became almost a member of the team herself.

The 1995 single 'Samba Magic' was chosen up for allocation by Virgin, and in time, Basement Jaxx was drawing admire from all corners of the American and British house centre of population as one of the top house production units. The pair spent much of 1996 working on remixes (for the Pet Shop Boys, Roger Sanchez, and Lil' Mo' Yin Yang among others), then launched a third Basement Jaxx Extended Play. One track from the EP, 'Flylife,' became a Top 20 hit in England after being re-launched by Multiply in mid-1997, and the single proved one of the most well-liked anthems of the year on the global club scene. Late that year, Ratcliffe and Buxton released a compilation of their most crucial Atlantic Jaxx sides.

After being courted by several main labels, Basement Jaxx signed to the independent XL Recordings (also home to the Prodigy) and readied their debut full-length, Remedy, for a 1999 release. Second album Rooty followed two years later, an outgrowth of the duo's similarly named club night. 2003's Kish Kash and 2006's Crazy Itch Radio followed, while Singles was a well-timed stopgap launch between the two albums. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Basement Jaxx Get me Off Lyrics and Video

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

i wanna undress you
i wanna caress you
dont wanna be coy
its time to get me off

i wanna undress you
i wanna caress you
dont wanna be coy
its time to get me off

cmon baby thrust me trust me
get me off
your my poison and i can not get enough
cmon baby thrust me trust me
get me off
your my poison and i can not get enough

get me off
get me off
get me off
(getting loose getting loose)
get me off
get me off
get me off

youve got to get me off

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

i wanna undress you
i wanna caress you
dont wanna be coy
its time to get me off

i wanna undress you
i wanna caress you
dont wanna be coy
its time to get me off

cmon baby thrust me trust me
get me off
your my poison and i can not get enough
cmon baby thrust me trust me
get me off
your my poison and i can not get enough

get me off
get me off
get me off
(getting loose, getting loose)
get me off
get me off
get me off

youve got to get me off

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

ohh iget me off so good

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

well the musiks pumpin and i wish youd
do the same to me.. ohhh
your so freaky, treat me, make me come
oh baby baby baby

youve got to get me off

get me off
get me off
get me off
(youve got to get me off)
get me off.......

Give your body to me
Give your body to me
let your body be free
free your body, your body with me

The Best of Basement Jaxx

• Get Me Off [CD 2]
• Good Luck
• Red Alert
• Rendez-Vu
• Plug It In
• Bingo Bango
• Where's Your Head at
• Lucky Star
• Romeo
• Jump 'N' Shout

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Basement Jaxx Singles

Year	Single	Chart peak positions				Album
		UK	IRL	U.S. Dance	AUS
1994	"Star/Buddy"	—	—	—	—	Single only
1996	"Samba Magic"	—	—	—	—	Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation
1997	"Fly Life"	19	—	—	—
1999	"Red Alert"	5	22	1	—	Remedy
	"Rendez-Vu"	4	21	1	—
	"Jump N' Shout"	12	—	—	—
2000	"Bingo Bango"	13	—	1	—
	"Romeo"	6	17	5	82	Rooty
2001	"Jus 1 Kiss"	20	—	—	88
	"Where's Your Head At?"	9	19	3	16
2002	"Get Me Off"	22	—	—	43
	"Do Your Thing"	—	—	—	33
2003	"Lucky Star"	23	—	3	—	Kish Kash
	"Good Luck" (feat. Lisa Kekaula)	12	28	2	22
2004	"Plug It In" (feat. JC Chasez)	22	—	—	43
2005	"Oh My Gosh"	8	23	—	36	Basement Jaxx: The Singles
2006	"U Don't Know Me" (feat. Lisa Kekaula)	26	—	—	—
	"Hush Boy"	27	—	—	39	Crazy Itch Radio
	"Take Me Back To Your House"	42	—	—	71
2007	"Hey U"	—	—	—	—
2009	"Raindrops"	21	20	—	88	Scars
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Basement Jaxx Videos

The Videos is a DVD from the UK group Basement Jaxx consists of all official music videos, several live tracks, and 4 extra video clips.

It was launched at the same time as the compilation album Basement Jaxx: The Singles.

Track listing
the videos

"Red Alert"
"Rendez-Vu"
"Jump N' Shout"
"Bingo Bango"
"Romeo"
"Jus 1 Kiss"
"Where's Your Head At"
"Lucky Star"
"Good Luck"
"Plug It In"
"Cish Cash"
"Oh My Gosh"
"Flylife"
live traxx

"Red Alert" (Glastonbury 2000)
"Jump N' Shout" (Glastonbury 2000)
"Do Your Thing" (V2002)
"Cish Cash" (Werchter 2004)
"Lucky Star" (Fuji Rock 2004)
"Good Luck" (Glastonbury 2004)
"Supersonic" (Glastonbury 2004)
"Where's Your Head At" (Glastonbury 2004)
extras

"The Road To Coachella"
"Jaxx TV"
"Tokyo Stench"
"Bongaloid"

Basement Jaxx EPs

EP 1 (1995)
EP 2 (1995)
Summer Daze EP (1995)
EP 3 (1996)
Sleazycheeks EP (1996)
Urban Haze (1997)
Span Thang EP (2001)
Junction EP (2002)
Unreleased Mixes (2005)
Planet 1 (2008)
Planet 2 (2008)
Planet 3 (2009)

Basement Jaxx Discography

Studio albums
1999: Remedy
2001: Rooty
2003: Kish Kash
2006: Crazy Itch Radio
2009: Scars

Compilation albums
1997: Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation
2000: Jaxx Unreleased
2001: Xxtra Cutz
2005: Basement Jaxx: The Singles
2006: Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation Vol. 2

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About Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx are a significantly highly praised English house music duo contains of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to fame in the late 1990s. Basement Jaxx began in Brixton, South London, UK in 1994, where they held a usual club night called Rooty, which would later become the name of their second artist album (Rooty).

In addition to Rooty, their other albums take in Kish Kash with the title track sung by Siouxsie, Remedy, The Singles and Crazy Itch Radio. Kish Kash be the victor the 2004 Grammy for best dance album and was their most significantly highly praised album for its ground-breaking sound. They also won BRIT awards in 2002 and 2004, both for Best British Dance Act.

In addition to their own work, Basement Jaxx have become in-demand remixers. Tracks such as 4 My People (which became a massive chart and club hit), Like I Love You and She Wants to Move have all had the Basement Jaxx remix treatment.

In 2005, Basement Jaxx headlined the UK’s Glastonbury festival as a replacement for Kylie Minogue. In 2006 they were support to Robbie Williamson Robbies “Close Encounters”-Tour.

The production duo got their name from the location of the studio where they recorded their first Extended Play - it was located in the basement of friends of Simon Ratcliffe.

Just the Tate up to date invite the duo to write music enthused by a piece of art featured in the gallery. Karel Appellis’s Hip Hip Hoorah! ended up being the inspiring work.