Meanly Jaxx
Basement Jaxx is a British group of electronic music formed with Brixton, in the south of London in 1994 by the two producers Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton .
History
In Brixton, they occur regularly in a club, the Rooty , which will give its name to their second album. The duet creates the same year the label Atlantic Jaxx Records . It make a tobacco in 1995 with the title Samba magic ; they gain the respect of the scenes House British and American.They spend the year 1996 to remixer of the titles of " Fart Shop Servant boys " before the exit of their third “mini-album”, " Meanly Jaxx" , whose title Flylife becomes an enormous tube. They leave a compilation the best titles of their label in 1997. But they record their first album in 1999 named Remedy . This enormous success contains the tubes " Red Alert" , " Return Vu" , " Jump Shout" , and " Bingo Bango". Red Alert will be used besides in an advertizing for Coca-Cola. They leave also, always in 1999, an album of recoveries and b-sides, Jaxx Released .
In 2001 leaves Rooty from which is extracted the titles " Where' S your head at" , " Romeo" , " Juice 1 Kiss" , and " Get Me Off" . The clip of Romeo , the title opening the album, is a parody of a film of Bollywood. " Where' S Your Head At" , which rests on a sample of Gary Numan, " M.E" became an enormous success, and undoubtedly the most known title of the group. It belonged to the band its film Tomb Raider and the clip, signed Traktor (of the monkeys to the human faces) was crowned by Mixmag like best the video of dance ever realized. Xxtra Cutz is recorded just after Rooty, and contains b-sides resulting from the recording of " Rooty".
In 2003, their third album Kish Kash included collaborations of Siouxsie of the group Siouxsie And The Banshees, LISA Kekaula of the Bellrays, Me' Shell Ndegeocello, grime MC Dizzee Rascal, Totlyn Jackson, JC Chasez, and Phoebe. The titles " Lucky Star" , " Good Luck" and " Plug It In" left into individual. The piece " Good Luck" is re-recorded with a special remix in 2004 to appear as a topic of the Euro 2004 on MTV. The song also appears in the BO of the films " Just Married" and " Appleseed". " Kish Kash" gain the price of the best album Dance/Electro with the 47e ceremony of the Grammy Awards.
In 2005, the duet records " The Singles" , a compilation of individual being reproduced on their 3 preceding albums, of the recordings going back to their beginnings and two new songs: " Oh My Gosh" and " U Don' T Know Me". Another version was recorded, " The Individual (Special Edition) " , which contains CD no-claims bonus containing of the pieces of the first meetings of recording, as well as remixes of songs of meanly Jaxx. The clip of " U Don' T Know Me" , which puts in scene a Queen Elizabeth 2 violent and alcoholic was banished of diffusion during the day on MTV.
They currently form part of the round of Robbie Williams, and will start their first round this winter.
Their 4th album studio, " Crazy Itch Radio" , on September 4th to the United Kingdom left, at the same time as their individual Hush Boy . One finds there in guest the voices of Martina Bang, Johnny Blaze, Lily Allen and Robyn.
In addition to their projects, Basement became " remixeurs" upon request, as on the tubes " 4 My People" of Missy Elliott, " Like I Coils You" of Justin Timberlake and " She Wants to Move" N.E.R.D.
Discography
Albums
EPs
Individual
Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: With Compilation:- Flylife - 1997
Remedy:
Rooty:
Kish Kash :
Crazy Itch Radio operator:
Compilations
- Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: With Compilation (1997)
- Jaxx Unreleased (1999)
- Xxtra Cutz (2001)
- The Individual (2005)
- Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: compilation Vol.2 (2006) has
Film musics
Where' S Your Head At in Tomb Raider, 2001.Good Luck in Appleseed, 2004.
External bonds
- Official site
- Article MCA
- Interviews (in English)
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