Basement Jaxx

This 1999 debut emerges from the underground house scene, demonstrating influences from dancehall, disco, and even salsa. Repetitive lyrics on such tracks as "Yo-Yo" will either send you to the dance floor or drive you insane. Tracks like "Rendez-Vu" keep dance fiends across the world very happy.

Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe love the boom-boom-boom-boom of house music for the
emotion it can convey and hate it for the formulas to which it often resorts. To achieve the
former and wage war on the latter, these London DJs created Basement Jaxx, an ongoing
tribute to the roots of house that points the way to its future. Thumbing their noses at
house's staid underground and the slickness of its pop fatade, Buxton and Ratclif... More >

Like so much good house, more fun than reading the newspaper and less fun than advertised ("Red Alert," "Rendez-Vu"). (Grade - **)