Word: basement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours, an hour, half an hour before show time, we dialled the Axis number. With half hope, half fear, we asked, "Hey man, you know the Basement Jaxx gig tonight? Is it cancelled?" Half hope because it was storming like a teledrama outside. And half fear because, we miss them now, and we miss the big bright bloomin' future of all house music for good. Armand would never have forgiven us. Neither would Thomas Bangalter, Jon Carter, Eric Morillo, Roger Sanchez, Danny Tenaglia, Pete Tong, Gilles Peterson, Ashley Beadle, Norman Jay or Phillippe Zdar. They've heard the boys...
...they were right. Basement Jaxx are the ludicrously good stuff--plus a bag of screams. Two skinny white Brit boys who started playing in the back of a Taco Joe's five years ago, they jacked it up in their basement to come up with a monthly night in Brixton that drove London's youth nuts. The twitching and the glittering alike frothed in the mouth to get in, and once inside, they foamed in the veins to get it on. Last March, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe dropped unsigned out of the continental sky into the Winter Music Conference...
...Honors" (1994), was directed by Alek Keshishian '86. Wrinn says that as a former student, Keshishian knew what paths to follow and was able to convince Harvard that hs project--a story about a Harvard student whose life is changed by a bum that he finds living in the basement of Widener library--was worthwhile...
...Those utterly sober, almost somnolent male voices always seemed very homelike," Purdy recalls, perhaps revealing a central influence on his own hypercivilized diction. When the family broke down and bought an old TV set to view a hotly contested World Series one fall, the device ended up in the basement, and the children allowed themselves to watch it only as payment for completed chores. "My sister and I devised a system of viewing credits," Purdy remembers. He recalls that his credits were never used...
...getting a little water in the basement...and I imagine we're going to get some more," said Matt P. Stec, superintendent of Leverett House...