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...hour before Basement Jaxx were scheduled to drop a sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...were a successful musician, I'd be tempted to release albums or singles under a false identity in order to see how well they're released independent of any fame. (That's not a completely original thought: it's a trick artists as diverse as Eric Clapton and Basement Jaxx have employed.) But maybe that's just me being neurotic...
...late; fortunately, the warm-up DJ did a good job of entertaining the crowd, and the reception when the Armada took to the Karma stage was indulgent. Groove Armada lived up to expectations, opening their eclectic set with some Latin-influenced house tunes (including a tasty remix of Basement Jaxx's "Jump and Shout") before moving on to throw on some breakbeat tunes, some funk and even an old-school track from the Sugarhill Gang. True to the anything-with-a-beat-goes spirit of the night, Cato and Findlay goofed around on the live bass guitar and keyboards...
...clap sound on the two and four beats, and in its repetition of catchy sing-along shout-along phrases. In recent years, the filtered French disco house sound of groups such as Daft Punk has been the dominant trend. Perhaps the best house record of 1999 has been Basement Jaxx's Remedy album, which goes back to the roots of house and still manages to achieve a fresh, futuristic sound...
...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...