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Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx

Released: October 20th on XL Recordings

Ripping up the rule book once again, Basement Jaxx return with their third album Kish Kash. With Remedy and Rooty they famously "fucked house music up the arse". Now they're going to fuck with your heads. Taking in punk, funk electro and northern soul the Jaxx have produced an astoundingly intense, ugly and beautiful ride from start to finish.

Filching from all the disparate strands of music's past to create something spellbindingly new, this album sees a handpicked band of collaborators drawn from across the musical spectrum and Felix and Simon's magpie like-record collections. First single 'Lucky Star' (released November 10th) sees the Jaxx in cahoots with the UK underground's boy in the corner Dizzee Rascal, a harsh tagteam assault leaping straight from the underground and into the charts. Other collaborations include legendary South London punk pioneer Siouxsie Sioux on electropunk thrashout Cish Cash; Lisa Kekaula from LA rock and soul shakermakers the Bellrays belting out 'Good Luck', the kind of
crazed stomper you'd end up with if Grooverider played at the Wigan Casino; nu soul diva Meshell Ndegéocello getting sassy on p-funked dancefloor mover Right Here's The Spot and N*Sync asylum seeker JC Chasez adding some falsetto to the unhinged r&b sex-up meets rave anthem that is Plug It In.

Basement Jaxx have returned to give dance music a much needed slap in the chops. Taking Where's Your Head At as the blue print and their 'punk garage' fusion to its logical endgame Felix & Simon have produced an album that is above and beyond genre classification. Now, when all around are treading creative water, Kish Kash dives in at the deep end. Ready for La Future?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you excited now?

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ahjashdvladklajhfjdshjfhjae

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yes. I. am.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been enjoying this cd all day.

― st, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

holy livin fudge !

is it on slsk yet ?
(ducks)

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Do my eyes decieve me or is DIZZEE RASCAL GOING TO BE ON THE NEW BASEMENT JAXX ALBUM?!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe, piscesboy, if I could figure out how to upload cds on soulseek.

― st, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

st do you know how to make cds into mp3s?

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.

― st, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar !!!!

do it now !!

(shhhh dont tell the riaa shhhh nothin 2 c here)

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god! do you believe its time for our viewers to crack each others skulls open and feast on the goo inside?

YES I DO KENT.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ST is a bullshitter. Or he is Simon Ratcliffe.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! This is an awesome birthday present, even though I don't actually have the album yet.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is coming out before the single?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(And yes, very spiff goodness without question!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A check of the IP address suggests it's not Simon Ratcliffe.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is coming out before the single?

Massive Attack did it, earlier this year...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.musicmatch.com/download/plus/jukebox_intro.htm?os=pc&BTD=1

st go there and download the basic version of mmjukebox (i hear this program sux from ppl who know more about computers than me but i use it to make mp3s, it seems ok.)
once you have installed it, insert the cd, and select 'record'. once this process has finished, let slsk know where on your computer the files are. (pls,thnx)

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

JoB, have u heard it?

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Not at all.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.usaprowrestling.com/kash.JPG

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ça, c'est la Future!

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yay! i can't wait to hear this!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy moly.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

!!! (not the band)

― todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i love life

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

hey that's only the press release.

it'll probably be crap.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a feeling it will be great, but it will be their last great album.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

APOCALYPSO

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

UHGP(*&Y$PUHBO:I$BH@JK$LHN"+)(*UJHP"JHN@#$"LNK "LK@:N ><$MN%R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

AKA DO MY EYES DECIEVE ME OR IS DIZZEE RASCAL GOING TO BE ON THE NEW BASEMENT JAXX ALBUM?!?!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

*head explodes*

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

this looks fuckin' fantabulous and amazing. i can't wait.

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

haha the sioux inclusion is going to have simon reynolds doing that little sideways-walking-on-the-floor thing homer did when he was the union leader

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

eh ive been waiting forever for a new basement jaxx but why this rock punk electro stuff, i was hoping theyd continue more in the janet jackson rnb thing, this seems kinda like bandwagon jumping... id also like them actually having rappers and not dizzee rascal, and could they not get justin instead of jc??? im sure i will like the album but i dont like what theyre going for

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

haha b jaxx have done nothing BUT bandwagon jump for their entire career!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

remedy was a major sell out move at the time

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

And that is why they are so brilliant, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

no dont get me wrong i adore bandwagon jumping but this is 'punk funk' indie bandwagon

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i actually like the rapture - house of jealous lovers but what if it all sounds like that : (

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

e, they only talk about electropunk in reference to one of the tracks! no worries!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Quite!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the very idea of this record is going to give me an all day boner today

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it is going to - "Where's Your Head At" was much beerier than anything the Rapture etc. do. It's their big beat album obviously!

(Yes I am excited btw)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope that dizzee song is like calypso handbag grime or summat and not just straight bwj

― sean g, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

like, i'm gonna guess the dizzee track is going to be something along the lines of "fly life" or "jump'n'shout" with more of a garage edge; "good luck"...disco dnb? so = "i want u"??; the Meshell Ndegéocello track will be along the lines of "red alert"; and hopefully the JC track will sound like "get me off"!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ha that's good tom because i've been listening to nothing but music from the late 90s this week.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

: ) ok!!! i cant wait to see the album art too

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep thinking of all these people in a room together. Didn't happen, I know, but I'm still thinking about it.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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song, even

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfDp-e9t0w&feature=related

btw, annoying clipping aside this is pretty awesome; like this lady's vocals a ton

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

best track off CIR still 'Smoke Bubbles' for me

― modescalator (blueski), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

that one is also pretty hot, yeah

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

still hate "Raindrops" btw

― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

okay playing this now

5 songs in and only "Scars" is actually worth listening to. "Weedy" is exactly how I would describe my listening experience; it's almost like they cut the core out of every song as part of the mastering process.

wholly awesome art tho

― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

"My Turn" is decent, actually! So that's two songs out of 6 that I like plus one that is okay ("Saga"), two I never want to hear again ("Raindrops", "Feelings Gone") and one I actually can't remember even though I just heard it ("She's No Good").

― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

never been able to hear "Smoke Bubbles" as its own song because of how much it rips off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNajx1cD5T4

― doe-eyed chicks get wiped out, fatally (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

u of all people should understand the difference between sampling/interpolating & 'ripping off' -- same guitar part but totally diff tracks

― i got nothin (deej), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

In theory, yeah. Sometimes it's hard to dissasociate these things in practice, though.

― doe-eyed chicks get wiped out, fatally (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

listening to their Zephyr EP thing now - seems to be a more laidback experimental affair

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 13:44 (sixteen years ago)

i think this album was drastically underrated

― Drama Mama's and Papa's too! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

There are only 4 songs on it that I really ever want to hear again ("Scars", "My Turn", "Twerk", "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)").

― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

I forgot how completely insane the Yoko track is

― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 21:49 (sixteen years ago)

xpost. Add Raindrops to that list and I'm with you.

― everything, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)

no way, that song is garbage

― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

"Raindrops" is pretty awesome imo

― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)

? No accounting for taste I guess. It just seems like a classic BJ song in every way. Anyway, 4 or 5 awesome tracks on an album isn't that bad these days. Plus, that pretty much describes their last three albums in my opinion, so pretty much par for the course.

― everything, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

took me a while to realize that

― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not going to go to the mat for Crazy Itch Radio because life is too short and the bad tracks on there are pretty bad, even if there are only 2 of them, but saying there are only 4 or 5 awesome tracks on Kish Kash is just nonsense. Even the songs I find dubious ("Supersonic", "Tonight") are way, way, WAY better than the average level of quality on Scars.

― wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

Fair enough. Kish Kash is pretty awesome but not without filler. Without going through it track by track, there's probably still only 6 or 7 tracks that I really like. Scars is a little bit disappointing overall but the good songs are as good as anything they've done before.

― everything, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

I like it.
http://pitchfork.com/news/50302-listen-new-basement-jaxx-single-back-2-the-wild/
did this get discussed already?

― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:26 (twelve years ago)

also
http://thump.vice.com/words/basement-jaxx0back-2-the-wild-gorgon-jaxx-dub

― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 April 2013 16:54 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

i just realised they had a new single today. haha wow. it's sad days when not even ILM can rouse itself to talk about a new jaxx single.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:54 (twelve years ago)

ha well, that's kind of what happens when you suddenly become super terrible

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:58 (twelve years ago)

aw, back 2 the wild was pretty good!

― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8tpaxaipU

― tarping, Thursday, 8 August 2013 17:43 (twelve years ago)

kinda meh?

― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 August 2013 18:31 (twelve years ago)

Headlining that Alex James/Jamie Oliver festival, aren't they? The one where the former will be photographed with Cameron and Clarkson and the latter will play drums for Toploader.

― djh, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:13 (twelve years ago)

Mind you, they could redeem themselves by playing a conceptual show about the wonderfulness of the NHS.

― djh, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:14 (twelve years ago)

ha well, that's kind of what happens when you suddenly become super terrible

didn't this happen circa 2001?

― the late great, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)

No results found for "Amish Techno Fan".

― Tim F, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)

I sort of feel like they've forgotten how amazing a vibe and friction you can generate just by looping a few carefully selected elements over one another.

remember house music?

― the late great, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)

Yes, but the greatness of "Same Old Show" (my favourite BJ tune) and "Flylife" are not antithetical to the greatness of Rooty and Kish Kash except for an insane prince of false binaries

― Tim F, Friday, 9 August 2013 00:20 (twelve years ago)

so what you're saying is i'm insane to dislike rooty and kish kash

not sure what the false binary is here, i mean i guess "basement jaxx were good when doing house music and not so good when not doing house music" is sort of a binary but it's more a matter of taste than a matter of logic

― the late great, Friday, 9 August 2013 03:01 (twelve years ago)

so what you're saying is i'm insane to dislike rooty and kish kash

jokes bruv.

I feel like what we see with BJ's development is much more of a typical arc where an artist comes up with a distinctive take on genre X, then gradually detaches that which is distinctive from the specific genre form such that it can be deployed in a variety of settings, but it's like from that point onwards a clock starts ticking and the shelf-life of the production aesthetic is limited when trying to survive out there all on its ownsome.

So, sure, in Kish Kash (less so Rooty which is still mostly house and barely less genre-loyalist then Remedy) you can see the seeds of their subsequent deterioration, but to describe everything after Remedy as super-terrible seems to me the equivalent of dismissing all techstep ever because it got super-boring after a while.

― Tim F, Friday, 9 August 2013 07:11 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Feel certain that if Cameron is seen boogying to Basement Jaxx with Alex 'n' Jamie 'n' Clarkson that should be enough to finish him off.

― djh, Sunday, 1 September 2013 22:45 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

I know there hasn't been a good Basement Jaxx album in a decade but this new one... isn't bad at all. It's like all the developments in British dance music over the past two years have given them license to jump back on their own bandwagon rather than just churning out another aimless pick-and-mix record.

Only halfway through, mind, it may yet fall off a cliff.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:34 (eleven years ago)

It does fall off a cliff, unfortunately.

― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:49 (eleven years ago)

What's the News is pushing my buttons in a good way. How much longer before I get to the cliff?

― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)

You're right on the precipice.

― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:28 (eleven years ago)

be that as it may, i am deeply infatuated with mermaid of salinas which gets stuck in my head on a nearly daily basis

― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:21 (eleven years ago)

The first half of this album feels like they took every song on Scars that didn't work and woodsheded them into something good-to-awesome

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:39 (eleven years ago)

ha for a second i thought this was the zach braff thread and i only half-understood dan's post

― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:49 (eleven years ago)

hahaha

btw this is maybe just me but holy shit @ "Buffalo", that is my shit right there

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:25 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

hyped
http://cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-basement-jaxx/

― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 16:44 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

tonight!
with Masters at Work, The Internet and Fei Fei

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:44 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

Nothing new, afaik, but I was listening to "Kish Kash" and one of my kids said "this sounds like flying monkeys crossed with Bollywood," and I said OTM, and she said that was not a compliment.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2020 00:02 (five years ago)

But are your kids at least using words like "OTM"?

― MarkoP, Monday, 31 August 2020 00:36 (five years ago)

no.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2020 00:52 (five years ago)

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