Basement Jaxx

The most creative duo in dance delivers a royal mash-up of reconstituted genres with some wildly diverse cameos (Siouxsie, JC Chasez, Dizzee Rascal). Behind the exciting kaleidoscope of music lurks the Jaxx's trademark touch: delightfully quirky digital effects that sound as though they're generated by an epileptic robot.

Around the world of sound with top U.K. DJ duo the energy never sags and ideas never flag
on the third album from Basement Jaxx, a duo that cribs from R&B, punk, house, Asian, Latin
and Middle Eastern music without the self-consciousness that usually accompanies such a
broad palette. "Right Here's the Spot" sounds like Kraftwerk meeting Prince in some
old-school underground house club; Meshell Ndegeocello drops in some sultry v... More >

Is that blood the big-time vocalists smear on the tracks, or ichor? ("Lucky Star," "Cish Cash," "Right Here's the Spot") (Grade - ***)