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...many musical failures, Basement Jaxx are neither dogmatic purists nor contrived, self-conscious genre blenders; they have simply thrown out all rules but one—that music was meant to be fun. With their gleefully irreverent, high-energy approach—like-minded house producer Armand van Helden said that Jaxx have “fucked house music up the ass”—the duo straddle the line between mainstream and underground, alluring fans from both scenes...
...crafted new CD revels in that thrill. The song Little Black Spiders comes on hard, like the Prodigy in a back-room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance. Van Helden's real rush, it seems, comes when he lures dancers back onto the floor...
...electronic musician who is definitely getting the nod these days is the American deejay-composer Moby. Most deejays a decade ago were faceless shadows lurking behind turntables. Now deejays associated with the rave scene--like Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, Keoki and BT--are artists, celebrities, superstars. "If Stravinsky were alive today, this is the kind of music he'd make," says BT, who composed music for the rave movie Go (1999) as well as the PlayStation game Die Hard Trilogy. "It just affords you a broader sonic palette to work from...
...Punk's Homework album and the song of last summer, Stardust's "Music Sounds better With You." It continued this year with Cassius's 1999, an excellent disco cut-up pastiche work, and I'm hoping for more quality Gallic crossovers. I also think the stunning new Armand van Helden and Basement Jaxx albums (2 Future 4 U and Remedy respectively), with their amazing singles ("You Don't Know Me" and "Red Alert"), signal that dance still has lots of promising avenues to explore. Trance music also seems to be on the rise, with great songs like Paul...
...Makiko Nagaya. Averina has no equivalent among the men, but Soviets hold four of five world marks. Impressive, but somewhat deceptive. The records were all set at high altitude, in Alma-Ata, near the Chinese border. That might mean that American Peter Mueller, Holland's Hans van Helden or two Norwegians, Jan Egil Storholt and Sten Stensen, can upset the Soviets...