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.
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.
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