Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio

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At 20:37 +0100 17-06-2006, Basement Jaxx wrote:

Basement Jaxx announce the release of their fourth studio album - "Crazy Itch Radio". Following on from the success of the UK double-platinum No.1 "Singles" collection, "Crazy Itch Radio" will be hitting the shops in early September 2006. You have been warned!

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone seen them on their current Robbie Williams support slot? Heard any new stuff?

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 17 June 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Great title. I have high hopes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed! Looking forward to it. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have them for the States now?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

one hopes that this is the album that will finally make the notoriously jaxx-phobic ilm come around

― gear (gear), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

ILM is Jaxx-phobic???

Fuck an ILM.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 18 June 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

So gear, should we tell Deric or not or...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as jazz-phobic and was wondering what that had to do with anything.

And yeah, ILMers prefer Daft Punk, amirite!

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 18 June 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

t'hell with that noise, gimme gimme gimme!!!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 June 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I await impatiently. Hopefully we'll get less Dizzie Rascal and more whatever-her-name-is-on-Romeo-and-Red-Alert

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 18 June 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

sweet!

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 18 June 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Is Robyn gonna be on the record, one wonders.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

hopefully we'll get more dizzie...and less of her from the banshees.

they can do no wrong in my book

― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 18 June 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

New single performed on T4 today. Felt like Jaxx-pop by numbers - an even safer summer version of 'Oh My Gosh'.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

and less of her from the banshees.

Out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ze Tracklist:

1 Intro
2 Hush Boy

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

1 Intro
2 Hush Boy
3 Zoomalude
4 Take Me Back To Your House
5 Hey You
6 On The Train
7 Run 4 Cover
8 Skillalude
9 Smoke Bubbles
10 Lights Go Down
11 Intro Reprise

"Hush Boy" is the first single, due out mid-August.
12 Everybody
13 Keep Keep On
14 U R On My Mind

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH.

1 Intro
2 Hush Boy
3 Zoomalude
4 Take Me Back To Your House
5 Hey You
6 On The Train
7 Run 4 Cover
8 Skillalude
9 Smoke Bubbles
10 Lights Go Down
11 Intro Reprise
12 Everybody
13 Keep Keep On
14 U R On My Mind

"Hush Boy" is the first single, due out mid-August.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

If it's the single I heard on the radio the other day it's a right fucking mess.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Then again I think (APART from "Good Luck") they've been pretty much rubbish since that third album anyway.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Erm, Good Luck was on the third album.

Which track is Lady Sovereign on then? She's got to be on there somewhere.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'm baffled at "jaxx phobic".

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

1 Intro
3 Zoomalude
8 Skillalude
11 Intro Reprise

right so its a 10 track-er basically.

― piscesboy (piscesboy), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually sort of disappointed it's a new album ... from the thread title I was thinking maybe they started a podcast ...

― Lukas (lukas), Saturday, 8 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i hope 'Skillalude' is just Buxton bawling 'I AM SKILL' over and over thru distorted vocoder and gonging for 12 seconds.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

If it isn't, can you just record a version of Alan doing that?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

hopefully they'll be going down the 'more dance-pop' route than
the 'more live band feel' route. the titles don't give much away do they?

they are supporting robbie on his uk shows. that's...weird.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

good exposure for them i suppose.

i don't expect them to blow me away with anything this time. it'd be a very pleasant surprise if they did. At least the title suggests it WON'T be full of 'comedown' tracks full of acoustic guitar and Felix crooning (they did this well with 'Feels Like Home' on 'Kish Kash' tho).

It'd be great if Grace Jones featured. And if Stevie Wonder can work with Blue you'd think he could spare a half hour to phone in something nice for them too.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

I hope there isn't a fake radio theme with announcers and retuning of stations and stuff.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

BIT OD SLAf BASS and 80's stuff yeah? maybe something like sandinista but with hot girls in lycra. sirens n stuff.

my fave band btw. looking forward.

― molly (bulbs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

BIT OD SLAf BASS and 80's stuff yeah? maybe something like sandinista but with hot girls in lycra. sirens n stuff.

WHOA! This string of words blows my mind. I hope it's on the sticker advertising the album on the front cover.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 14 July 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Is it too cheesy to think that rather than Dizzee they'll have Crazy Titch on it instead?

Oh, and more JC Chasez please.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Linda "It's In His Kiss" Lewis and Robyn feature, apparently. "Hush Boy" is the first Jaxx single I don't like, it's "Oh My Gosh" meets Eighties disco, an average song and a not too great vocal performance. The horns sound a bit EW&F. Hmm.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah its a definite first that u dont hear it and have to stop for breath afterwards. its just 'ahh yes another jaxx single'. it's rather like an extra unreleased soon-to-be-a-single song at the end of a greatest hits would sound.

Its better than JUMP N SHOUT.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

isn't crazy titch in jail?

i too am looking forward to this!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

The album is very good. Less cataclysmic and less concerned with eating your brain than the last one, but supremely solid and song-y. Much in the way of ethno-flourish (a country song, an Eastern European song, a soca song, and so forth), but all recognizably Jaxx-ified. Housey whoosh and glide prioritized over careening crashes. I toggled between opinions the first few listens but have grown to love it and suspect that will grow still more.

― Andy Battaglia (Andy Battaglia), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

"hey you" is kind of a jaxx klezmer song! or at least jaxx does, as you said, e european serbian-esque brass. crazy!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, can anyone tell me anything about the compilation of eastern european house/techno being released on Atlantic Jaxx???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Less cataclysmic and less concerned with eating your brain than the last one, but supremely solid and song-y. Much in the way of ethno-flourish (a country song, an Eastern European song, a soca song, and so forth), but all recognizably Jaxx-ified.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3223/crazyitchoh3.jpg

also - anyone heard lady marga before?

― etc (esskay), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Good cover. I approve.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Its better than JUMP N SHOUT.

I doubt this!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

i like the dogradio but the rest of that cover BLOWS.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Its better than JUMP N SHOUT.

stevem otm -- does not compute.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

somma demma fools dey never knew da rools dey never did go to basement jaxx skool

― Slarta John (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

"hey you" is great. the single is still meh.

― el juan (el juan), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

the country song RULES

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

not feeling this

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

haha PLEASE LORD DONT MAKE ME GIVE THIS A BAD REVIEW ON FUCKING P*TCHF*RK OF ALL PLACES

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

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― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

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some white chick, yesterday

― helpful aid (kit brash), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

'Hot & Cold' is the only track on Kish Kash I don't absolutely love.

Ha, that was the first one that really grabbed me on that album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Take Me Back To Your House' is incredible. The rest of the album is a complete mess, but not without moments to admire.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Vula Malinga:

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

snap!

― unhelpful aid (kit brash), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

"REMEDY > ROOTY > KISH KASH > CRAZY CRAP RADIO"

mmm...tasty...take a bite outta rockism.

― natedey (ndeyoung), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I really like the b-side "Trouble" - weird soca-garage-spanish-guitar-soul. Shoulda been on the album!
-- Tim Finney

yeah! also, uh, anyone want to comment on their "Hush Salsa" reworking with a Tito Puente sample & with ROXANNE SHANTE rapping?(!?!)

― etc (esskay), Monday, 25 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe so many people heard this back in July.

Anyway i listened to it at a tower listening station and decided immediately to buy it. The single/leadoff track is awesome, although i thought the loverman rap was a little subpar. I'm surprised everyone hates the single so much but I think i just love the disco horns and the vocals/lyrics on it were great! I think I agree mostly with Tim and Dan, although I'm not quite as enamored of Run 4 Cover as Dan is.

I agree its their weakest but hardly a "plz stop recording" moment or anything! Its sort of like they've settled into a comfortable familiarity or something. I'd put this just under Kish Kash and my favorite album is Rooty.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

the dj after me at the station last week never showed up, so i put in this record and hit all repeat. the campus was alive with the sounds of "crazy itch radio" for the next three hours.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

good cd

― and what (ooo), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Need to get this finally. Which I will when payday arrives.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

My admiration for this remains undimmed.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i was surprised to find that a recent experiment on 'how much stevem likes each jaxx album' threw up 'rooty' as #1 over 'remedy'. experiment was done by marking each track on each album out of 10 and then calculating the percentage from the total score ('crazy itch' still bottom but the gap between each album was not big). this is systems thinking i intend to apply to all albums herewith. you may well laugh, you may well back away nervously.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Rooty is their best album! I don't find that result particularly surprising.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yes Rooty is their best album, although not by a particularly appreciable amount. If it wasn't for the fact that their first three albums were so hard to rank against one another, I think people would be less surprised by (and excessively reactive to) Crazy Itch Radio's relative drop in quality.

Perhaps what gives Rooty the edge is that it combines the selling points of the other three albums: Remedy's dancefloor monsters, Kish Kash's intense density and wild eclecticism and Crazy Itch Radio's anything goes celebratory vibe.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

i never actually listened to this

― boo berry (dubplatestyle), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

your review was even better than I thought then jess!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

a queston from our viewers -

"did jess do everything he could to avoid the Basement Jaxx Pitchfork self-parody?"

on another note - when did "anything goes celebratory vibe" result in the collective "meh" of the nation?

― natedey (ndeyoung), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

another question-

who the fuck are you

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nate,

When the "anything goes celebratory vibe" comes at the expense of sterling grooves/songs/production/etc. etc. I guess.

For instance, I'm not sure whether I think "Everybody" is brilliant or disappointing: sometimes its sheer upness seems arbitrary and forced and patchworked together, like the duo were trying to make a "Do Your Thing" Part 2 out of all the leftover discards from other songs, and then, realising that the result was a bit incoherent, scrawled "GET HAPPY!" in permanent marker pen over the top.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

(insert drudge-sirens here) PURPLE FACED RAGE!

sorry, jess, i'll stop joking and let vahid cover that territory - i just thought that line upthread was the funniest thing i'd seen on ilxor since BMP cover art.

"Everybody" is definitely the litmus for me too, Tim, because I'm surprised how much how I feel about the whole album fluctuates with it. But to expect anything less than that upness from BJ also seems kinda absurd. Like I expect and should expect that permanent marker but it instead becomes a sad "it's not you, it's me" situation. It also makes "Keep Keep On," with it's leftover discards so thoroughly transparent, so much more potent.

― natedey (ndeyoung), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

ROOTY IS NOT THEIR BEST ALBUM!!!!!!

half of it is boring for one thing.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure we've had this conversation, but which half lex?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

most of the ones which aren't the singles (and i find the singles the worst bunch of jaxx singles, too (not counting the new crap)). i really don't find myself returning to or even thinking about rooty v much - it has nothing on remedy or kish kash!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

My mind is boggling that any clutch of singles that contains Romeo and Where's Your Head At? could considered the worst clutch of Jaxx singles.

Rememdy is by far the best from a singles point of view but then its never really held my attention in the final third.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

jaxx singles in order of brilliance:

good luck
red alert
lucky star
rendez-vu
plug it in
jump and shout
romeo
bingo bango
oh my gosh
jus 1 kiss
where's your head at?
fly life
get me off
..........
do your thing
u don't know me
hush boy

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

No way!

Romeo
Lucky Star
Jump & Shout
Rendez-Vu
Where's Your Head At?
Red Alert
Plug It In
Get Me Off
Good Luck
Fly Life
Jus 1 Kiss
Do Your Thing
Hush Boy
Bingo Bango
Oh My Gosh
Take Me Back To Your House
U Don't Know Me

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. Get one proofreader.

This album is still annoying me to fuck but I'm starting to fall for Take Me Back To Your House in a big way, partly because of that feeling of neediness Steve mentions. It falls into that small category of Jaxx tracks that crystallise an emotion while simultaenously feeling really 'up' (see also Good Luck, Romeo and, erm... not much else really).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

the backing vocals in 'romeo' always annoyed me slightly which is why i don't rate it as INSANELY HIGH as you all seem to!

i am looking at the first five songs on my list and thinking "omg pinnacle of music"

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

also i don't like the tune of 'romeo' as much as most jaxx melodies, it's kind of...twee.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

"the backing vocals in 'romeo' always annoyed me slightly"

Ah see this annoys me a bit on "Take Me Back To Your House" but on "Romeo" I couldn't not adore every little bit.

The trancey middle-8 is the best thing ever ever ever ever ever.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

MENTALIST.

― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Tim, itchy post finger, I previewed but couldn't stop hitting enter X-)

― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

found 'Remedy' to be more consistent than 'Rooty' in that most tracks are 8 out of 10s while Rooty fluctuates a bit more but with higher peaks.

i never got round to starting that 'OPO: basement jaxx 'ludes'' thread, but Kish Kash has the best 'ludes!

re 'Everybody', it sounds a bit TOO basic for them and like an out-take from Rooty sessions. needs more bass.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

The best 'lude is that brief piano loop after Red Alert.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kish Kash does have the best 'ludes; it's the only album where I don't skip them.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jazzalude yes but I would shot Cosmolude personally

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Jus 1 Kiss" needs the interlude before it.

Actually I think I like most of the interludes on their albums.

I'm really surprised how high you guys rate "Lucky Star," which I like, but doesn't really touch the others to me.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I was wrong, Dan was right re: "Run for Cover"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think Andy K's allmusic review is excellent, absolutely spot on (except I disagree about the bonus track).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 21 October 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

I would like that review more had it not made reference to "Cotton Eye Joe".

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

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― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

i should probably listen to this a few more times. only so many hours in the day tho.

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

also, ha ha, i think i just realized how weird it is to have written something like "my pitchfork colleague tim finney"

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

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― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Your review was quite astonishing considering you never listened to the album jess!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 22 October 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I absolutely LOVE this album. It's quite strange because 1 I haven't been listening to music much the last, oh say, ten months (read: baby's in the world) and 2 I used to fucking hate BJ so much. This, however, made me love music again and discover Basement Jaxx ain't that bad. I think one of my favourite tracks on the record is Smoke Bubbles, Hey You and Lights Go Down.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Smoke Bubbles" = Lauryn Hill's "The Sweetest Thing"

― RODNEY HAVE TOO MANY EMOTHINS!!! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 23 November 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

i'm loving this album too! "take me back to your house" has hit me hard.

― surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

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