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Track Listing
1. Rendez-Vu
2. Yo-Yo - (featuring Alma "The Soul" Duah)
3. Jump 'N Shout - (featuring Slarta John)
4. U Can't Stop Me - (featuring Yvonne John-Lewis)
5. Jaxxalude
6. Red Alert - (featuring Blue James)
7. Jazzalude
8. Always Be There
9. Sneakalude
10. Same Old Show
11. Bingo Bango
12. Gemilude
13. Stop 4 Love
14. Don't Give Up - (featuring Felix & Simon)
15. Being With U
Album Notes
Basement Jaxx: Felix Burton, Simon Ratcliffe (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel: Alma "The Soul" Duah, Slarta John, Blue James, Yvonne John-Lewis, Junior Sanchez, Patsi & Brett, DJ Sneak, Monday Michiru, DJ Gemini (vocals); Alexander Telnikoff (violin); Cassie Watson, Gwyn Jay Allen, Roland Clarke, Jorges & Nina (background vocals).
On REMEDY, Basement Jaxx do for house music what the Chemical Brothers did for techno. By utilizing infectious, accessible song structures and incorporating a sense of musical history, the group brings house to the masses without dumbing it down. In the larger sense, REMEDY can be seen as a thumbnail primer on electronic dance music. Everything from '70s-derived vocoder tricks to late-'80s club beats and hard-funk synth bass is used to cook up a varied, flavorful sonic stew. REMEDY's room-shaking grooves will find a place in the hearts of hardcore house heads as well as anyone with a taste for state-of-the-art dance music.
Industry Reviews
5 stars (out of 5) - ...REMEDY is like: listening to the best pirate radio station you've ever chanced upon, then spinning the dial and finding something even more exciting...
...REMEDY is a potent...slice of high-speed urbanity set to a backbeat of dizzying, rhythmic uncertainty....They only remind you that the optimism is no longer in belief, but in surprise.
Magnet (08/01/1999)
...REMEDY shines a thousand points of light down on the dance floor with shimmering jams....This blissful joy ride is hard to resist and easy to love. - Rating: A
Included in Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 1999.
Q (01/01/2000)
Included in Wire Magazine's 50 Records Of The Year ['99]
The Wire (01/01/2000)
Ranked #29 in Mojo Magazine's Best of 1999
Mojo (01/01/2000)
Ranked #1 in Muzik's Albums Of The Year '99
Muzik (01/01/2000)
Ranked #17 in CMJ's Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999].
CMJ (01/10/2000)
5 out of 5 - ...Somehwere on this album, Basement Jaxx have created a song that you're going to love, no matter what sort of music you listen to....the mere existence of REMEDY shows hope for modern music's future.
Alternative Press (09/01/1999)
4 1/2 stars (out of 5) - ...repeatedly, and durably, synthesises those notoriously unstable dance music elements; the dizzying dancefloor rush and the complex, long-lasting emotional hit....deft and obvoiously heartfelt....Truly great.
Melody Maker (05/08/1999)
9 out of 10 - ...as good a dance album...as anyone from [Britain] has produced in decades....It's a wonderful new frequency where house, ragga, techno, soul, funk...Jesus, flamenco are all mashed together and it feels like some kind of perfect moment...
NME (05/08/1999)
...a roaring success....[REMEDY] is an insultingly accomplished work....Some tracks will go down a bomb on the dancefloor...
The Wire (06/01/1999)
4 stars out of 5 - ...[Basement Jaxx's] wackiness is too damn funky....REMEDY radiates a perso-nal vibe that no program could produce....This is house music that works at home.
Rolling Stone (08/19/1999)
Ranked #45 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (09/01/1999)
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