Remedy (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Dance & DJ  »  UK House
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• Release Date: August 3, 1999
• Label: Astralwerks
• UPC: 017046627023
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106632507
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #62337 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #145968 in Dance & DJ (See Top 100 Dance & DJ Bestsellers)
• #11 in UK House (See Top 100 UK House Bestsellers)

Rolling Stone (8/19/99, p.112) - 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."
Spin (9/99, p.142) - Ranked #45 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Entertainment Weekly (8/20-27/99, p.128) - "...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
Q (1/00, p.83) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999."
Alternative Press (9/99, p.92) - 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."
Magnet (8-9/99, p.68) - "...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."
The Wire (1/00, p.67) - Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records Of The Year ['99]"
The Wire (6/99, p.54) - "...a roaring success....[REMEDY] is an insultingly accomplished work....Some tracks will go down a bomb on the dancefloor..."
Muzik (1/00, p.69) - Ranked #1 in Muzik's "Albums Of The Year '99"
Muzik (4/9, p.83) - 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..."
CMJ (1/10/00, p.5) - Ranked #17 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999]."
Melody Maker (5/8/99, p.44) - 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."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.30) - Ranked #29 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999"
NME (Magazine) (5/8/99, p.41) - 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..."

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.

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