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- Summary: The follow-up to the Jaxx' critically-acclaimed 1999 debut album, 'Remedy,' 'Rooty' finds the British house duo adding to the party vibe with elements of pop and R&B thrown into the mix. The lead single is "Romeo."
- Record Label: Astralwerks
- Genre(s): Dance, Electronic, House
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Top Track
| Where's Your Head At? | |
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| Where's your head at? Where's your head at? (Where's your head at? Where's your head at?) Where's your head at? (Where's your head at? Where's... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 20 out of 23
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Mixed: 2 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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Rooty is the second straight triumph from a pair of producer/DJs who look set to carry the torch for dancefloor electronica in the years to come.
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But sound for sound's sake isn't what makes the disc work; it's the recurring female singers, who add forlorn soul to the rhythms.
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The nerve of it all is breathtaking. Turbo-beats poke up a gospel-jazz revivalist meeting, a mariachi band wanders into the hazy disco sashay of 'Broken Dreams', a Gary Numan sample gets bludgeoned to credibility in the Van Helden-esque pogo of 'Where's Your Head At?'.
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It's no different from the formula that made Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Bores such big hits, but something's different this time around: Basement Jaxx have soul.
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On Rooty, Basement Jaxx refines the ambitious but untidy sprawl of its debut into a carnivalesque mix of two-step, house, funk, and disco with a modern take on George Clinton's late-seventies mission of "rescuing dance music from the blahs."
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In pursuing the anarchic, joyous mash-up of their debut Remedy to its twisted conclusion, Basement Jaxx find themselves in androgynous, genre-bending territory that is Prince-ly in spirit even when it isn’t in sound.
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A few fatal flaws eclipse all of Rooty's abundant qualities. Basement Jaxx have taken kitsch a few steps too far.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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MattFeb 1, 2004Best dance album of the year. You could easily dance yourself to death.
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BillyBoyMay 18, 2006Where's your head at is a timeless classic. I could listen to that song alone over and over. But the rest of the album is great as well.
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Oct 8, 2018Really, who knew dance music can be amazingly sophisticated? Really, who would know?
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JasonB.Jul 30, 2001Very fun to listen to and makes you want to dance in your car.
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