Remedy
- Basement Jaxx
- Band Name: Basement Jaxx
- Record Label: XL Recordings / Astralwerks
- Release Date: Aug 3, 1999
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100Remedy is the next great step forward for house music.
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100One of the most assured, propulsive full-lengths the dance world had seen since Daft Punk's Homework.
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This blissful joy ride is hard to resist and easy to love.
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100Remedy is not only the best dance record of the year, but maybe one of the best ever.
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100Word had already gotten out about this debut LP: that for its genre, it's as seminal as London Calling and as well rounded as Sign of the Times; it avoids the monotony and facelessness of 99% of house records; and it's as funky as anything out there, past or present. Guess what: it's all true.
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It's one of the best albums of 1999 in any genre... [and] one of the finest house LPs ever recorded.
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'Remedy' is probably as good a dance album as anyone from these Isles has produced this decade.
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90Basement Jaxx renovates the old house and gives it enough bad attitude to match the current trends of dark drum 'n' bass and hard electro.
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90It's easy to dismiss crossover hits as a dumbed-down version of an underground sound. But damn it, this is a phenomenal album.
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Eschewing categories entirely, let's just call this trippy l'il slice of vinyl a masterwork, combining elements of salsa, house, reggae, hip-hop, and ska into one remarkably cohesive whole.
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80Remedy follows a growing list of albums born of an infectious energy and bubbling belief that, dance-wise these days, almost anything goes.
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Basement Jaxx refine their broad influences into a creative energy you can feel: The art of their noise supples as much dance motivation as their beats.
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80It might not be the dance album of the year - but it's certainly pushing musical boundaries and deserves to be in your record collection.
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80Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, like the Chemical Bros. before them, have the brains to upend house with music as disparate as Spanish flamenco, bebop, Motown funk, and Philly soul.
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80Warmer, more soulful and worldly than the average drug-fueled ravers, Basement Jaxx may not quite have relaid house's foundation, but they've at least redrawn a few of its rules -- beat by gleeful beat.
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75The Jaxx prove they can make this old house music exciting and new.
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60One of the problems with the album is that after the super-solid beginning the second half or so of the album just doesn't compare.
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The duo's self-proclaimed "remedy" is nowhere near as revolutionary as the hype would insinuate, but it does offer its distinct pleasures
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35I'm sure there are kids out there that think Basement Jaxx is great dance music, but the odds are, they don't know much about jungle.