Remedy

Cool electronic

Absolutely classic house. I typically prefer more deep house stuff but as far as the more upbeat, dancey side goes this is impeccable. I love the Latin flavor throughout it.

That was so good! I didn’t love every song, but the ones I did were so so groovy! Yea!

Pretty dang cool and exciting house album, def need to revisit

Great album. Brings back memories.

This album is so cunty (positive connotation)

So fun. Just bopping along while working.

First 70-degree day of 2024; working on the chicken coop

Awesome!!

Yeah, this is just end to end fun. Never picked up on The Selecter sample when I was young, just makes me like it even more. It's a 9/10 album, but I'm rounding up cos it makes me smile.

The stuff that came out when you were an adolescent.... that's the purest form of nostalgia. Even if you never actually heard it, it can still put you in that specific emotional world. Everything about 1999 was moody and sexy. IIt must've been a hard time for asexuals, way harder than for gay people. They didn't have marriage yet, but who would want to get married when shit like this was coming out?

All tracks are excellent

one of the coolest ones so far, experimental and interesting and blending of a lot of different sounds

My kinda music.

Excelente!

I can hear how this influenced Steve Aoki, Guetta, Glitch Mob. This album was a banger. Saved Jump n' Shout, many notable tracks including Red Alert as another stand out. Guess it's a 5!

Top Quality

DANCE

The beats on this are unbelievable. Some of them hit me real hard, and some of them are just so creative, energetic, or out of the left field. Red Alert is an especially great track!

Great to hear this on again!!!

This... is the complete opposite of anything I would typically listen to and yet I was blown away by every second of this album. So raw, so versatile, yet so clean. Exactly what I was aiming for by doing this 1001 Albums thing - to broaden my horizons and this album here did it.

Pacing is perfect in each song and the album. Not even my favourite basement jaxx album, but still pretty great

I like it!

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Nice. I'd only heard most of these songs as remixes from much later. Easy listening house you love to see it.

Banger

Uno de las mejores cosas que he escuchado so far aquí. Para ser del 99 suena al 2022. Glorioso. Un montón de tracks tienen autotune, suena muy actual está bien loco.

Pretty chill electronic album.

First that I have heard of Basement Jaxx. I enjoyed this album! Excellent house dance music for my ears and mood today! I had my first listen last night and I liked it, but didn't love it. Today I listened again and loved it! The tracks kept me dancing and wanting more! Red Alert!!

Stunning

Funky time!

Every single song, doesn't fail to impress me. It's house music but reshaped

I love EDM, so this will be great.

Fun!

Um ótimo álbum com vibes de pop

Extremamente revolucionário, seja por suas batidas modernas, seja por sua capa disruptiva.

This is great! I thought it feels like early electronica/ hip hop, and it has that vibe for sure. Maybe sure, a little club going on... definitely unique, lots of different people featured, vocals, mixes, it is a lot like DJ music like techno beats and all but more melodic. I really like this stuff! Huh, great find, great find!

Notable: - Rendez-Vu

Some of you dorks need to lighten up

Some kind of a Dancey good time. I had some problems with this today. I think it was probably down to the headphones I was trying to listen to through. Some parts of the record felt disappointingly lightweight compared to other parts which really swung. I guess some parts were designed for big commercial radio play vs deeper cuts. I kind of thing with better equipment we're probably looking at a consistently fun record. Some real fun bass stuff.

Groovy beats

Fun!

That was cool, pretty nostalgic actually.

I could really do without the moaning in Same Old Show, but otherwise this is a pretty decent example of late 90s electronica.

I can hear the influence of this album! I've heard so many pieces before in various remixes

Really like basement jaxx, never heard this album, except for like one song, but this as a whole was great!

This was cool as hell

I wasn't that familiar with Basement Jaxx beyond "Where's Your Head At?" which wasn't even on this album. Greatly enjoyed this album. Reminded me a lot of Daft Punk, but...better? Yeah, better. This is almost a 5* album for me, but there were a couple tracks later in the album that didn't quite hit for me. Probably would be a 4.5.

I enjoyed it. sounded like the tipical europop stuff I listened to when I was a kid. :)

I like it. Its not awesome, its very chart friendly, but there won't be any thumping dance music on here, so I'll take what I can get.

Klassisk big beat

Maybe it's the relief of this not being jazz or Bob Dylan talking, but I'm gonna be Lao Tzu at the vinegar tasting with this one and simply appreciate it for being what it is: an apt artifact of late 90s house music.

Sound system rocking. I am in a party mood. I like this a lot. I am obsessed with the infamous 100 gecs boiler room where they remix "where's my head at" and use the iconic bonk sound effect, so actually hearing some house beginnings is awesome. I know that this is samey in some places but that is house the genre bending and the hype. Red Alert is so good. Just the bass on it is so funky it really is the best song that Daft Punk never wrote. Sounds straight from the French. I hear the influences so clearly in modern music. Stop4love is 100% a pink pantheress Track in disguise. Bingo Bango is a sonic song 100%. Being with you is a Tyler the creator song. I like it all and it is awesome to see how dance music permeates culture. I will say the moaning was a bit much at times but I like the artistic choice.

Wasn't big on the interludes and one or two actual tracks, but the rest made up for them. Some solid jams, especially on the back end.

I dont like house music but apparently i do like house music with a heavy dose of funk. Almost a 5 star album for making me like house music. The tracks on this have a regular somg atructure to most of thwm - lyrics for a start but also chorus, etc. its a cracking album. Couple of number on this are infectious and mever fail to make me want to dance like a drugged up idiot. I am looking at you Jump & Shout and Red Alert.

ok nonieeeee ghört vo dene. bumsdebäzdebumzdebäz hä. fun. yo yo riese beat. banger. dasch 1999?? hä ich finds insane cool? so in jump n shout chönted irgendwelchi grüschli cho und s wür passe. s teams benochrichtigungsgrüsch taucht voll under. he ich ha huere fun bin die ganz ziit halbe am tanze bim schaffe. ok stop 4 love isch etz chli nervig. churz gmeint es stüürt uf es glatts füfi zue. oke aber es vieri isches. zum teil komplett hirnlos aber immer eaaasy groovy und huere füre. sehr sehr coole electro! he 90er wo mir gfallt!

Don’t worry , don’t panic, ain’t nothing goin on but … 90s whistle blowing

This one comes right out the gate screaming! It’s about as great as an album could possibly start. It’s so loud and infectious. The best part of the whole thing is it is dastardly funky. When I saw the cover art my immediate thought was dance music. And I was right, but I never could’ve guessed how funky this album would be. I will say the fact that it’s a dance album does limit it conceptually. Like there’s never gunna be a true surprise song on this album. I know this is a typical complaint of mine, i know that not every album has to have the variety of an archandroid. But that’s what really clicks with me on a personal level, if you don’t have dramatic departures from genres from song to song, than that will always be a detriment to me, even when the album is like this one and it has some of the best and creative dance music I’ve ever heard. Like the sexy Latin flare of “Rendez-vu” was a great twist, I really loved that song. Then the next song is a silly funky dance song called “yo-yo”. When I heard those two songs back to back it definitely set my expectations for the rest of the album alittle too high. Mainly cause I was expecting that level of variety and creativeness from the whole album. I genuinely really love this album, I mean that, but it’s not perfect. After “jump n shout” I only saved two other songs called “red alert” and “bingo bango”. But by this point the magic of those first two track had worn off, and it started to suffer from the same problems that most if not all dance albums have which is they are repetitive and naturally similar in the sense of every song needing to be “dance tempo”. Now with the few small negatives out of the way I can conclude with my final thoughts on this album which is it’s probably one of my favorite dance albums of all time now (not saying much cause it’s not really my kind of genre) and I think that shows how special it is. Like anybody can create a dance album that follows a formula and meets the right tempo, but it really takes special effort and love to create something this original and unique. Truly a great album even though I’m never going to recommend it to my metalhead friends.

Great album!

I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would! I kind of expected a Chemical Brothers/Fat Boy Slim sounding album, but this was not that. I found myself stopping what I was doing to focus on the music quite a few times - very different but interesting sounds!

Pretty fun electronic music. I can hear the influence in Charli XCX's material here for sure.

Great dance music High energy and unique sounding If I heard this in the club it would get me to move

As I realised that many of the relatively contemporary albums included lack the test of time to prove their greatness, I have stopped to bear grudge toward run of the mill electronica and landfill indie released in the turn of the century. but also like, this is weirdly good! 4/5

8.5/10 A pleasant surprise from this list, full of fun beats that pushed the boundaries of house music. I can feel RnB influences in some of the tracks.

Electronic/party music. Actually pretty catchy.

This is a lot more fun and carried than most of the 90's techno that showed up on this list. It feels more connected to actual rave culture of the time too. It's house based rather than big beat.

Hell yeah

One bad and very annoying track, rest is great.

I'm on the fence with albums like this. This one should be on the albums you don't need to hear list. Does it need to be included with these classics? Are we really comparing Basement Jaxx with albums like Highway 61 Revisited and A Love Supreme and Abbey Road? We shouldn't. They shouldn't be in that conversation. So I'm on the fence. Should it be here? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. However I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. Really fun, fat beats, catchy hooks. The last song Don't Give Up was a bit of a slog, but I didn't give up and made it through. Overall an honestly good album.

house music core.

One surprise during this project: I didn’t mind this. I was expecting to be lukewarm at best. It will never be a top favourite, but a good time for a spin. I could have used a break halfway.

짱 조은디 나 하우스 좋아하는 듯

Never really listened to them before but they were popular amongst some of the customers at the record store I worked for in College.

some great tunes on this to be fair

Interesting mixture of old school music and electronic.

Nice hiphop, chill vibes

Ketamine hit different in 2026

Taking me back to high school - seemed like these songs were everywhere.

Simply just a damn good House album. 4.5 bumped down to 4.

I’m at a 4. Out of the 15 tracks here (yes, that includes interludes), I liked 11 of them, with two of them being just kinda flat (“U Can’t Stop Me” & “Being With U”) & two of them being outright awful (“Yo-Yo” & “Same Old Show”). When this album hits those awful lows, it’s a *SUPER* low low, and one that would drain the energy out of any nightclub you might try to play this album in. It’s not a surprise some of the worst ones here involve TEMU Britney Spears. However, when this album lifts itself from those lows, especially when it’s something as fun as “Red Alert” or something like the excellent “Bingo Bango”, it feels super fun to listen to, with a really nice energy that genuinely feels reminiscent of the club circa 1999. The mixing here does a really good job of emphasizing the bass & drums whilst still giving the occasional vocals / other instruments time to shine. Overall, most of the 57 minutes here should give at least a little energy boost, and I think it’s a fun listen, with or without headphones in. I know 11/15 is 73%, and that this should probably be more of a 3.5 because of it, but I’m at a flat 4 just because I fuck with this style of music – again, video game influences were flying all throughout my brain here (& perhaps the SiIvaGunner MAGFest rave yesterday played a part in my enjoyment), but I think it genuinely holds up as a competently produced & free-flowing house / electronica album. If the really low lows leave a bad taste (which I wouldn’t blame, given that one of the awful tracks is literally the second one), I can understand a 2 or even a 1. Those awful tracks will probably hold this off from ever being a 5, but I think it caps pretty nicely at a 4, which is where I’m at. If nothing else, it makes for good background music. I dunno if it had to be on the list, but I could certainly hear out a case for it.

Classic and nostalgic

This is a banger and Jump and Shout makes me want to flip a table

Ah yes, late-90s house music. It reminds me of being in LA in the 90s, and it's pretty fun. I might get a copy of this record, it would encourage me to go to the gym more often. I was dancing around while listening to it this morning. Sure, some of it is predictable, but there are no stupid lyrics, and the electronic effects are often interesting. I found it really fun and immersive. (I was particularly entertained by the videos.) 4/5

Robo-dance designed to irritate the shit out of me instead is cooler than imaginable. They edgenudge everything into something intriguing. Stop 4 Love otherworldly.

Is it big, dumb dance music? Yes. Is it maybe the best big, dumb dance music we've had on this list so far? Also, likely, yes. They said their goal was to make less glossy and superficial feeling electronic music, and I think they are largely successful, owing to its overall warmer sound and more varied and vocal forward songs.

Pure nostalgia: - Exchanging CDs with Elise and Hannah & Sean - sometimes full length like this one & the Streets, and sometimes mix CDs with titles like 'Dirty Dieters & Hot Nigels' - Taking the puttering local train to Nymburk to visit Elise and listening to this before going out to random small town pubs & drinking too much Fernet - Dancing all night in clubs in Prague and rushing out the door just in time to catch the last streetcar home So I can't rate it subjectively, even if I know logically it strays too often into sounding like the music to a Y2K era Coca Cola ad.

Fun. Trancy. 4/5

This was a really fun album, got me in a groove I wasn't expecting given the rating. Obviously way too repetitive towards the end and I could've done without the moaning sample in that one song but otherwise this was a good time

Los discos de electrónica tienen trampa porque a menudo escucho mi disco del día de camino a la facultad, y eso muchas veces es caminando, y así, con que el disco tenga un buen beat y me vaya animando mientras voy caminando apurado, pues ya me tiene ganado. En fin, por el nombre y por el lettering tuve miedo de que fuese un disco de EDM trucho, pero por suerte para mí, en el 99 no se pasó del house. Un poco largo, tendré que digerirlo más los próximos días, pero me pareció entretenido y divertido, aunque algunos de los temas se me hiciesen un pelín largos. Ya veré.

Cool reminder of good Times

This is a sort of uneven album in my opinion. It starts strong with some some real blood-pumping jams like Rendez-Vu and Jump 'N' Shout, but then there's a shift in the second half to a more laid-back, almost hypnotic vibe with tracks like Same Old Show and Always Be There, although Bingo Bango definitely bucks that trend and will certainly wake you back up if you'd started to zone out a bit. That said, I did enjoy the first half more than the second, but it was still a very enjoyable listen all the way through. Remedy goes through a pretty wide range of genres, from Latin House to Dancehall, all while managing to maintain its own unique identity. I think anyone that listens to this album is bound to find at least one song that they enjoy, and most will find a lot more, so I can see how it made its way onto the list. Favourite tracks: Rendez-Vu, Jump 'N' Shout, Stop 4 Love

Solid electronic dance album .

This was among the first things I picked up off Napster back in the day and its still a good time. 4 for the nostalgia!

great album buts its a bit unserious at times. like "gemilude" and the first few songs. but other then that and some songs being too long, this album it pretty good.

11/11/2025 For a genre I'm not into, this had a few good hits and wasn't a bad album. Spotify listeners: 3 million.

I thought this was an enjoyable romp, some hits I haven't heard in a while - Red Alert, Bingo Bango - the rest was decent and flowed together well. Fave Tracks: Rendez-Vu, Red Alert, Bingo Bango 3.9/5

Oväntat toppen! Red Alert är en banger jag är glad att återse. Kanske är 57 min dock 15 för många

This was a Rendez-Vu if I’ve ever heard one. Bingo Bango this had it all.

Słuchając tego miałem ochotę zarzucić pigułę, wskoczyć na parkiet i zakochać się na jedną noc. Także można powiedzieć, że autorzy osiągnęli zamierzony cel. Miałem wrażenie, że to był zapis nocy w klubie - od bujania się na parkiecie, przez euforię dragów, po przypadkowy seks, z domieszką małego ataku paniki gdzieś pomiędzy. Kawał zajebistego house'u. Głównie kojarzyłem ich "Scars" do tej pory, ale teraz już chciałbym usłyszeć więcej z ich twórczości.

4/5

Proper electronic music.

A great and fun listen. I could do without the interludes, but all in all, really fun.

I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC!!! this feels so ahead of its time i love the dirty ass production. there's some questionable project choices on here ngl, but idc, ts would go crazy in club. i don't get the hate same old show is awful tho ngl and it get worse near the end but that first half is excellent pink pantheress sampled this on girl like me that makes me like the album more

++: Rendez-Vu, U Can't Stop Me, Red Alert, Jazzalude, Same Old Show, Bingo Bango, Gemilude, Don't Give Up +: Jump n' Shout, Jaxxalude, Being with U +-: Yo-Yo, Always Be There, Sneakalude, Stop 4 Love 7,9/10

Fucking sick, jump n shout is great. Really enjoyed listening to this

I don’t know what’s wrong with people, this is a banging album. Fun and joyful and got me jiggling along on the bus after a hard day at work. And that’s a very good thing

Not my cup of tea but enjoyable all the same.

Late 90s house parties would have gone craazy

Still stands up remarkably well 25+ years on, has an eclecticism that doesn't peg it to any real scene or time. 2.67 average? Yanks logoff.

Some decent stuff here. Not my favorite genre, but nice to be exposed to something new.

Noisy. Industrial. Good stuff.

Felix - "I have the beginnings of a great opening song. Check out this beat and acoustic guitar hook. It is missing something though..." Simon - "...autotune." Felix - "This other song has been killing me. I have the beat and the synth part." Simon - "Yo-yo-yo-yo-yo-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yo! I know just what it's missing!" Felix - "But what if there is some mentally unstable guy in Belgium who will use this as an excuse to give us a bad rating on the 1001 Albums Generator?" Simon - "Seems weird, let's just name a song Bingo Bango so he can't help but love it." Felix - "OK, mate." Well played Basement Jaxx...well played.

God, I haven't heard these for ages. Red Alert is still an absolute banger, Bingo Bango is less good than I remember and I had forgotten I knew Rendez-Vu entirely.

Fun

Slaps. Weird and bouncy. Has some slightly bad tracks. Lets not put the same moaning.mp3 50 times in a row okay?

You had every opportunity to choose Basement Jaxx's "Rooty", a clearly more refined sound, but you chose to include only their debut because it's a debut. yawn... also you guys are too harsh.

Perfect summer weather music, made me want to lay on a beach with a cold alcoholic drink in my hand.

What an ass-shaking good time. I don't know what else to say.

I only know of basement jaxx because of 2 things. The 100 gecs remix of where's your head at and the same base song on Disney's extreme skate adventure, banger game btw if u like thps4. The latter is pretty weird but the 1st makes so much sense. Im not a dance guy. I appreciate it but its too repetitive and boring usually. Its supposed to be that way but I like things that mix it up constantly and I get it here surprisingly at least at first. I think up until always be there is perfection. Its straight up some of the best shit ive heard in a while and the 100 gecs crossover just makes more sense hearing that stuff. It does fall off pretty hard after that when it just gets to straight dance shit. Its not for me. It tries to mix it up and I commend it but for me to be down it needs some radical swings and its just pretty predictable. Im torn cause after song 2 I was ready to give it a 5 no joke. But then I got 1 dance song then another and by the start of the 3rd track in a row I was going to have to drop it some. That first half rips so hard though it can't be a 3 even if I really didn't like the 2nd half. Its just too perfect to start. I saved all of those first 6 or 7 cuts and that says alot

I found myself getting into this as I think it's repetitive beats help whilst at the Jim. Having said that I don't remember a huge amount about it apart from the few singles/stand out tracks. I think I could see myself listening to it again whist on a treadmill/swimming/coding/insert braining numbing activity here

Meermalen geluisterd, blije creatieve dancemuziek, maar verder kan ik er niet echt de vinger op leggen wat ik hoor. Maar misschien is dat ook helemaal niet de bedoeling. Gewoon meedeinen.

Dit album heb ik op cd, maar zelden vanaf cd geluisterd. Om het in de auto te luisteren heb ik het geript naar mp3. Ik kom er nu achter dat ik daarbij al een keuze gemaakt heb. Twee nummers komen in de auto nooit voorbij, die ik nu ineens wel hoor. Een nummer met een irritante piep en een nummer met gehijg. Ik was tot vandaag behoorlijk enthousiast over dit blije, speelse, maar ook gevarieerde album. Dé remedie voor een lange saaie reis. Op een zomerse dag het raampje naar beneden rollen, volume wat hoger zetten en knallen naar je bestemming. Maar dat kwam dus ook door het weglaten van de ergernissen. En die verdienen wel strafpunten. Ik kan er nu nog net een 3,5 van maken.

Hele vermakelijke 90s house. Wat het subgenre is, daar heb ik te weinig verstand van, maar ik herken het op zich wel als iets van vroeger. Ze maken soms iets teveel gebruik van gekke geluidjes. Ik heb er eigenlijk weinig over te melden, behalve dat ik me hier prima mee vermaak. Gewoon 4 sterretjes aanklikken en weer door.

Solid and great for a jog or cleaning the house

i’m totally thrilled for myself and the five other people they put this album on the list for!

I audibly groaned when I saw another electronica album pop up on this list. Yet my worries were unfounded, because this album was a lot of fun. I was out walking my dog and just grooving along with it. Definitely a nice surprise. 3.5 / 5

lekker bij het spirten

hermoso house, cargado de energia. muchas variaciones en los temas, me encantan las vocales un estilo unico muy marcado

From the reviews I guess Basement Jaxx were a very British/Euro phenomenon?! Yes, a lot of this sounds very 1999, but I don't really mind - they are a very nostalgic artist for me. 'Always Be There' is a highlight, as well as the obvious singles.

This album will always have a special place in my heart. Part of it is definitely nostalgia, but the other part is that the music has aged pretty well and is still fun to listen to even 25 years later. When this album came out, I was getting into a lot of house and speed garage. When I played this for the first time, it was so much different from all the DJ mixtapes I had at the time. This was the album that really exposed me to UK-style garage and house music.

bello elettronico

this is so fresh despite being 26 years old. favorite tracks included yo yo, jump n shout, bingo bango. was five stars until gemilude when it slowed down and became less my taste

It was really good. There was a one song that was a small time hit I remember. I'd listen again.

Boots and Pants - don't mind music like this for the background at work. helps keep me moving.

Very good album. Yet another example of why we should have half stars. Very good 90s-era house album that shows its age but holds up fairly well. 3.5 stars.

EDM that would be fun to listen to in a different stat of mind

Perfect background music for cleaning the shit outta my kitchen. 🧹

7/10.

Instantly transported to my first year of high school. Came out a year earlier than that fucking Moby album and has substantially more sophistication. This really takes the love for New York house that was at the root of all the UK Rave stuff and puts it on a pedestal. When you put it against that Moby album it really illustrates what a wasteland electronic music became the late 90s was in the US. The second single Rendez-Vu captures just a hint of the rising garage scene with some satisfying drum fills. Guitars and some catchy lyrics for the radio. Perfectly executed. Yo Yo is a weird wonky techno number. Jump N Shout is practically a UK Funky track! U Can't Stop Me is stripped back half-time continuing the kind of wooziness on Yo Yo. Red Alert continues the garage love with so much groove (also highly recommend the Steve Gurley remix if you like 2-step). Always Be There is a brukt tribute to Masters at Work. The bassline in the first movement feels a bit off but the second movement and the coda are gorgeous. Same Old Show is more wonkiness. Probably didn't need to be 6 minutes long. They again carry the US House torch on Bingo Bango and thank god they did. Stop 4 Love is wonky again but a little bit slower some lovely editing on the string samples. Don't Give Up starts with a very woozy synth which pans across the whole stereo image. Could have been a Bjork track. Being With You kinds of sounds like something you'd find hidden away on a Mille Plateaux or Rephlex record if that makes sense? It probably doesn't sound like what you'd think. Kind of forgettable tbh. This is a great sampler of the best of dance music in the 90s. A little bit backward looking with the US House, a little bit forward looking with the garage influences.

wait this is so fun

Am in a good mood. Might give this four stars. Sounds like the perfect album for a late night drive or to listen to in the background. + Rendez-Vu + Red Alert + Same Old Show (kinda scared me a little, but it's got something) + Bingo Bango + Stop 4 Love + Being With U

There is some nostalgia here for me for sure but I legit think this is an ‘all-time’ type record. Their next one ‘Rooty’ might be better probably, but this one is definitely the one that ‘broke’ them and their ‘sound’ and made them stars. I like to think of them as like the British counterpart to Bran Van (who you know I also love to death) - they are just ready to pull in elements and sounds from ANYWHERE and float them over a big beat and somehow make it work. Like this opening track is a 2-chord acoustic guitar riff… that’s actually pretty much the base of the song. Add a big beat, swing the EQ faders around a bunch, layer on all the electronic elements, cool melody/vocal effects… simple but great. There are a couple of tracks that are a bit 'meh' - like not bad but just a bit uninteresting... close to a 5 but not quite.

Yep

Not bad

I’ve never listened to an electric music album before and I thought it was pretty bad because I’ve never listened but this was very enjoyable to listen to.

I fuck with this

Fun! A bit long and blurred into a blob, but... kind of the point? :)

Runs out of steam a little bit towards the end, but for the most part ‘Remedy’ is an exhilarating, adventurous journey through dance music, with just the right amount of cheese and doof. There’s something on here for just about everyone, and I think it’s an album that has stood the test of time remarkably well, and still sounds fresh in ’25.

There's plenty to like in here. Many of the tracks have real energy to them, a sense of fun, and great beats. There's a few dips, but overall it's pretty solid, and there's also a good amount of variation too I think. The singles are still the stand-outs, and the most upbeat, fun ones of the lot. However there were a number of tracks I'd never heard before that were real jams (like Yo Yo). I remember dancing around like a loon as a kid to Red Alert, blasting it on my TAPE cassette walkman with crappy cloth headphones. One time we had a power-cut for about an hour, and I listened to it on loop about 10 times in a row. Meeemories. Rendez-Vu is where it's at though, what a tune! 3.5 rounded up.

When I first put this on I thought "who would sit around listening to this when not in a club in 1999" but by the time we got to song 10 I was really into it.

Audiogalaxy throwback reminds me of 2000-2004. Gym music. Get pumped.

Such a great record. Full of innovative samples. Very ahead of it's time and still sounds great now.

It's always a good sign when a record can get absolutely played to death on the radio and still sounds good. That's true of Rendezvous, that's true of Red Alert, that's true of Jumpnshout, that's true of Where's Your Head At off a later album. Maybe it's because of all the Latin rhythms. It actually feels really weird hearing Red Alert on decent speakers, instead of on our shitty student kitchen radio, eating my cereal, or booming in the background in a club. I've only listened to Kish Kash by these but that is a great album. They were always more interesting end of the dance omniculture of 1998-2005 ish. It's not all great, U Can't Stop Me is pretty dull, but the vast majority is very listenable and stands up remarkably well 25 years later. Can't say that of a lot of the dance music of the era. Bingo Bango is decent but I think was easily the most overplayed. Non-singles that stand out, Always Be There

Remedy is a really good album. It could just be my affinity for most electronica albums speaking here but the album was filled to the brim with a lot of bangers. Bangers that all managed to sound very different from each other and keep me interested throughout the album's whole runtime. Its absolutely not perfect with songs that could be better if they weren't so noisy but even these noisy songs along with all the other ones never were bad, just songs that i would put lower than the best songs. I just don't know what else to say other than this is just a really fun album that will likely be staying in my head for a while. Best Song: Jump N Shout Worst Song: Don't Give Up

And The Music Keeps On Playing On And On

They brought the mission back to dance/house. Basement Jaxx dropped the weight of unnecessary sounds and focused on getting people together and moving. Production is banging, interludes are fun, album really showcases what house was about to become

I really enjoyed this! It was a long album but I listened to it at work and found myself dancing in my seat multiple times.

I am funked

Bit weird to include this rather than "Rooty", but that's the way this list works, I s'pose. This is a bit more dance oriented than I'd usually go for, but still an engaging enough listen. Fave tracks - "Jump 'n' Shout" - MC Slarta John's vocals on that are badass! I quite like the weirdness of "Same Old Show" but it might outlive its welcome with repeated listens."Stop 4 Love" and "Don't Give Up" were also less dancey, more chin strokey, which is more my speed...

Dancey, groovy, fun.

grew on me

enjoyable club music

This is smartly made music. One of the best acts doing dance/house at the time. I wouldn't mind this playing loud whule trying to have a short conversation over it and mostly smiling, nodding and not really understanding each other. Not necessarily the thing I would reach for but I respect what's going on here and may even try and come back sometime. I think this holds up.

This album is definitely of a time, that does not mean it still gets your heart rate up even on a sleepy holiday evening. However I came to realize that the happiness at hearing some of the better known tracks and remembering the general time of when it was relevant makes me realize it is nostalgic but not timeless.

Love this album. I was 17 when it landed and it was full of life and energy. Saw them live and danced until i couldnt stand. Coming back it now, its all still there. A bit more filler than i remember but still a banger

Довольно прикольный альбом, но сильно понравился только 1 трек. Хотя стиль музыки прям мой

Soul, latin, electronic fusion. Female vocals are highlight. Collection of sampled sci fi noises and vocoder vocals but strangely cohesive. Good for back room late night club. 7/10.

Pretty enjoyable techno / house that does some interesting things. "Yo Yo" in particular sounds a very little bit like "100 Gecs" in the chorus, which is impressive as this came out around 25 years prior. I find 100 Gecs to be a really inspiring and revolutionary current act so I really can't say enough how much this impresses me that it came out so many years before it. I've heard of this act when I was growing up but never really listened much. It's a cool sound, almost even described as addictive? I found myself wanting more when a track was done. Could be that a lot of these songs average out to be around 4 and a half minutes and in this style of music I really like to sit and gel with it for longer. I'm currently having fun in making some electronic music and I'm glad this album is on the list here as I'm very aware of how hard this style is to make now that I'm attempting it (out of my comfort zone) so for transparency that context is probably elevating my rating at the moment. Fun music!

I love this album. I'm not sure it is revolutionary, but it is very fun and consistently good through the entire thing. I have fun listening to it every time that I do. Overall, I feel that 4 star average is probably fair based on it being good but not anything I'd put as a pinnacle of music.

Good album.

Ugh…. Just awesome. A strong 4 stars from me.

Slow start, strong finish.

Remember the hype about this one. Wasn't really convinced at the time. But in retrospect, it's a good electronic album, surprisingly holding up far better than I expected. Some people (me included) grumbled about the hype surrounding this record in 1999, because it apparently pandered to mind-numbing, instant gratification--especially compared to more left-field electronic acts from labels such as Warp or Ninja Tunes (check out Brett DiCrescenzo's scathing yet hilarious review on Pitchfork when the LP came out--where the author fortunately also makes fun of himself and his expectations--to have an example of such grumbling). But to be honest, those complaints feel like moot points today. For better or for worse, *Remedy*'s unhinged sense of fun, inventive spirit, and lack of boundaries, actually pointed towards the *actual* 21st century. Amazing to see that there would actually be no Jaimie xx without this record. And you can even find more "contemporary" reference points. *Remedy*'s vocoder elements, for instance, were not merely a nod to past retrofuturistic disco endeavors (as they were in Daft Punk's music). The loony vocal parts of "Rendez-Vu" and "Yo-Yo", for example, perfectly fit with the current hyperpop "nonsense". It was 100gecs decades before 100gecs existed. No surprise the latter recently collaborated with Basement Jaxx on a remix of "Where Your Head At?", the great hit single from their second album *Rooty* (sampling none other than Gary Numan!). As a whole, *Rooty* didn't age very well, however, because it dug a maximalist trench where UK-Club-indebted cuts featuring a lot of unimaginative female vocalists felt a little too derivative, with too many "manufactured" emotions as a result and not enough real pizzazz. That sophomore album was supposed to be wilder than the debut. But it ironically sounds both tamer and more tiring in retrospect. It's on *Remedy* that the right balance between maximalist and minimalistic tendencies had been reached from the get-go, enhancing the "wild" moments, but also shedding a more favorable light on the more subtle ones. Of course, you have the obvious hits (opener "Rendez-Vu", "Red Alert"...). But the vast majority of the deeper cuts are as interesting as the latter, if not more (minimalistic "Same Old Show" and its obsessive Selectors sample ; maximalist "Don't Give Up" and its fat, epic, expansive synth bassline...). And for both types of tracks, you have quite impressive, multi-layered soundscapes it's rewarding to get immersed in, like those lush and non-linear acoustic guitar flourishes on "Rendez-Vu", or the sly, enticing synthetic layers in the background of a bunch of other tracks. It's thanks to those details that genuine emotions manage to seep in. Of course, some stuff here and there still feels a little "dated". But not more than any deep cut on Daft Punk albums. Thomas Bangalter himself recognized that Basement Jaxx actually made more groundbreaking music than his in 1999. When an act profiting from such massive success in their chosen genre pays their tribute to the underdog, you gotta pay attention. 4/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 9 for more general purposes (5 + 4) Number of albums left to review: less than 25 (plus the 80-ish extra LPs listed on this app, included because different past editions of the book have mentioned albums that have since been dropped in subsequent editions). I've temporarily lost count here. Number of albums I'll keep in my own list: half, approximately (including this one) Number of albums I *might* keep: a small quarter, approximately. Number of albums I won't keep: a large quarter

I've never heard this one but boy was it fun. It's a perfect wake up in the morning and get gone album

This would probably be better up really loud and if I was hammered. Not something I would listen to on a regular basis but at the right time….yeah

I wonder if The Junction is still there. Haven’t been that way for at least 20 years. <sigh>

Mostly brilliant but it does tail off

Skemmtilegt hásteknó. Nokkrar góðar stuðneglur. Ætlaði gefa 3 en hlustaði svo á hana meðan ég var að elda og komst í svo gott stuð að ég ætla að gefa henni 4.

Solid, funky house music. A jam to me.

I'm a fuzzy guitar girl, but I'm another life this absolutely could have been my jam

jump n shout muhtteşem şarkı ve genel baya beğendim bn albümü şaşırtıyosun 1001

Big slab of middle-aged middle-class dinner party background music. More Dirty than Dancing. Don't listen with your Mum in the room.

Pretty good stuff, not the usual electro dance music I’d listen to but still cool shit

Loved it

Dam

Remedy is a very upbeat and uptempo album. I usually wouldn't enjoy this type of music, but I like this! I like the Selecter sample on Same Old Show. I'm convinced that the bass, on Always Be There, is sampled, and modified, from King Crimson's Sheltering Sky, even though I don't see this documented anywhere. The "bass" sound is actually produced by Tony Levin's Chapman Stick (a 10- or 12- stringed instrument). Liked Songs Added: - Rendez-Vu

I only knew this band from the memes, but this album was actually pretty decent!!

Something refreshing in a mountain of shit on this list. I was beginning to question if I even like music

Rockin’

Är egentligen svag för elektronisk musik. Men usch vad dåligt detta är. Säkert en viktig milstolpe, men jag har inte med det betyget. Ville mest att skivan skulle ta slut.

Great beats, electronic music, I enjoyed it!

When I saw this was another pre-2000s English electronic artist, I was skeptical on how much I'd like it. This album slaps hard and was way better than I expected, sounds very advanced especially for 1999 and a debut. The song with the lady moaning got to be too much, hope that one doesn't come up on shuffle.

Banger

pretty cool album, every track ends up being distinct and different, a lot of different effects and ideas going on, some alright, some really good, some downright dogshit. special mention to red alert where the singing lady tries to hit the highest and loudest note she can, annihilating my eardrums. the sex moan song is kinda lame too pretty impresive as a debut album, not sure how significant, quite frankly. by 2000, shit was already approaching musical singularity ended up listening to it a couple of times, might even listen again MYM

Whoa. This is fun to dance to.

Very good. Lots of random sounds throughout, but was able to get me in the right mindset for work

довольно неплохой хаус, пара треков прям жутко заставляет танцевать алкоальбом: клубничный дайкири

Did not expect to enjoy this so much

Basement Jaxx's greatest hits was my workout album for a while, so I know the singles. It sounds like the 90s in places, but it's pretty fresh -- I'd say almost bordering on IDM at times. It's certainly more nuanced than just club bangers, but they have those too. I like it. Throw in some "Where's Your Head At?" and I'm all in. 4.2

I confused this with blasterjaxx which is a different thing entirely, way better music though

"Remedy," the debut studio album by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx, released on May 10, 1999, is often heralded as a pivotal work in the evolution of house music. The album melds various influences, showcasing a versatile and innovative approach to electronic music. This review will dissect the album in terms of its lyrics, music, production, themes, and overall influence, as well as its pros and cons. ### Lyrics While "Remedy" is primarily known for its production and musical innovation, the lyrics also play a crucial role in the album's character. The lyrical content often revolves around themes of love, partying, and personal expression, typical of the house genre. Tracks like "Rendez-Vu" and "Red Alert" contain straightforward, catchy lyrics that complement their infectious rhythms. For instance, "Rendez-Vu" features the memorable line, "I'm tired of giving my love and getting nowhere, nowhere," which resonates with listeners through its simplicity and relatability. However, the lyrical simplicity can be seen as a double-edged sword. While it makes the songs accessible and easy to sing along to, it sometimes lacks depth and complexity. This simplicity fits the dance-oriented nature of the music but may not satisfy listeners looking for more profound lyrical content. ### Music Musically, "Remedy" is a tour de force. The album is a melting pot of styles, incorporating elements of house, garage, R&B, Latin, and funk. This eclecticism is one of the album's greatest strengths, demonstrating Basement Jaxx's ability to blend diverse genres seamlessly. 1. **"Red Alert"**: The opening track sets the tone with its energetic beats and infectious hooks. The song's funky bassline and vibrant horn sections create a lively, danceable track that has become a classic in the house music genre. 2. **"Rendez-Vu"**: Known for its distinctive banjo riff, this track combines Latin influences with house beats, creating a unique sound that stands out even in the diverse landscape of "Remedy." The song's catchy chorus and upbeat tempo make it one of the album's highlights. 3. **"Bingo Bango"**: This track features a samba-infused rhythm, showcasing the duo's ability to incorporate world music influences into their sound. The vibrant percussion and energetic tempo make it a standout track. 4. **"Same Old Show"**: With a more subdued, soulful vibe, this song contrasts with the high-energy tracks, adding depth to the album. The smooth vocals and laid-back groove demonstrate the duo's versatility. ### Production The production on "Remedy" is top-notch, characterized by its crisp, clean sound and inventive use of samples and live instrumentation. Basement Jaxx, composed of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, are known for their meticulous attention to detail, and this is evident throughout the album. The duo employs a wide range of production techniques to keep the listener engaged. For example, the use of live horns and strings in tracks like "Red Alert" and "Bingo Bango" adds a dynamic, organic feel to the music. Additionally, the inventive use of sampling, as heard in "Yo-Yo" and "Jump N' Shout," showcases the duo's creativity and technical prowess. ### Themes "Remedy" explores themes common in dance music, such as freedom, love, and escapism. The album's title itself suggests a form of healing or escape through music, a sentiment that resonates throughout the tracks. 1. **Freedom and Escapism**: Many tracks, like "Jump N' Shout" and "Red Alert," emphasize the liberating power of music and dance. These songs encourage listeners to let go of their worries and lose themselves in the rhythm. 2. **Love and Relationships**: Love, both its highs and lows, is a recurring theme. "Rendez-Vu" deals with the frustration of unrequited love, while "U Can't Stop Me" is a celebration of romantic perseverance. 3. **Party Atmosphere**: The overall vibe of the album is one of celebration and joy. Tracks like "Bingo Bango" and "Same Old Show" encapsulate the hedonistic spirit of the late '90s club scene. ### Influence "Remedy" has had a profound influence on the house music genre and electronic music as a whole. The album's innovative blending of genres and styles helped to push the boundaries of what house music could be. It paved the way for future artists to experiment with different sounds and influences, contributing to the genre's evolution. 1. **Blending of Genres**: The album's fusion of house with Latin, funk, and garage elements has inspired countless artists to explore similar cross-genre experimentation. This approach has become more common in contemporary electronic music, reflecting Basement Jaxx's lasting impact. 2. **Live Instrumentation in Electronic Music**: The use of live instruments, such as horns and strings, in "Remedy" has influenced the production style of many electronic artists. This technique adds a layer of depth and authenticity to electronic tracks, making them more engaging and dynamic. 3. **Mainstream Success of House Music**: "Remedy" helped bring house music to a broader audience, achieving commercial success and critical acclaim. This mainstream recognition helped to legitimize the genre and open doors for other house artists. ### Pros and Cons #### Pros 1. **Innovative Sound**: "Remedy" is celebrated for its innovative blending of genres and styles. The album's eclectic sound keeps it fresh and exciting, even decades after its release. 2. **High-Energy Tracks**: Songs like "Red Alert," "Rendez-Vu," and "Bingo Bango" are infectious and danceable, making them enduring favorites in clubs and at parties. 3. **Top-Notch Production**: The meticulous production quality of the album ensures a crisp, clean sound that enhances the listening experience. 4. **Eclectic Influences**: The incorporation of diverse musical influences, from Latin to funk to garage, demonstrates Basement Jaxx's versatility and creativity. 5. **Cohesive Theme**: Despite the variety of styles, the album maintains a cohesive theme of freedom and escapism, resonating with listeners looking for a musical escape. #### Cons 1. **Lyrical Simplicity**: While the lyrics are catchy and accessible, they often lack depth and complexity, which may not appeal to listeners seeking more profound lyrical content. 2. **Inconsistent Tone**: The album's eclectic nature can sometimes result in an inconsistent tone, with some tracks feeling out of place compared to others. 3. **Over-Reliance on Samples**: While the use of samples adds to the album's creative sound, it can occasionally feel over-reliant on this technique, potentially detracting from the originality of certain tracks. 4. **Dated Elements**: Some production choices and sounds are very much of their time, which can make parts of the album feel dated compared to contemporary electronic music. ### Conclusion "Remedy" by Basement Jaxx remains a seminal album in the history of house music. Its innovative blending of genres, high-energy tracks, and top-notch production have cemented its place as a classic. While the album has its flaws, such as lyrical simplicity and occasional inconsistency, its impact on the genre and its enduring appeal cannot be denied. The album's themes of freedom, love, and escapism resonate through its eclectic mix of sounds, offering listeners a vibrant, danceable escape from reality. "Remedy" not only showcases Basement Jaxx's versatility and creativity but also helped to push the boundaries of house music, influencing countless artists and contributing to the genre's evolution. In summary, "Remedy" is a testament to the power of innovation and creativity in music. Its pros far outweigh its cons, making it a must-listen for fans of electronic music and a significant milestone in the evolution of house music.

01) Rendez-Vu - 10,0 02) Yo-Yo - 8,0 03) Jump n' Shout - 9,0 04) U Can't Stop Me - 8,0 05) Jaxxalude - / 06) Red Alert - 10,0 07) Jazzalude - / 08) Always Be There - 8,5 09) Sneakalude - / 10) Same Old Show - 8,5 11) Bingo Bango - 10,0 12) Gemilude - / 13) Stop 4 Love - 8,0 14) Don't Give Up - 7,0 15) Being with U - 7,5 TOTAL: 8,59 (86/100) Current ranking: 38/174 This album came out when I was 21 years old and I wish I had been more extroverted back then and danced to "Rendez-Vu" and "Red Alert" somewhere in a club and not just in my room.

In the 2010s, EDM artists dominated the mainstream audience with pop-oriented house subgenres (such as tropical house). 15 years earlier, house artists that breached strongly toward the borderlines of pop include Daft Punk and Moby. Basement Jaxx has unfortunately aged too poorly to still be played at parties or clubs (disregarding nostalgia nights), and it's loud and busy temperament prevents it from being as commercial-friendly as Moby. But I do have to say Basement Jaxx is certainly in a higher league than house pop competitors, both contemporary and recent. They're fun and bright and know how to be creative and diverse without taking itself seriously, knowing its own limits, and not falling into any common or predictable tropes. On my first listen, I was gonna assign this a 2 based on it being too dumb and commercial, and some tracks are a bit derivative, like the hit "Red Alert" stealing the groove of Daft Punk with cheap R&B vocals to appeal to the masses. I also hated the hour long length as with other 90s electronica. But on my 2nd listen, I started to notice just how fun and creative they were, which each track offering innovative ideas, warranting the extensive lengths to dance to. Now on my 4th listen, after listening closely, I started to realize just how infectious each track is. There is love and energy in each one. And the interludes are really nice too. I'm not saying it's perfect. I still got tired by the last few tracks. Some tracks do feel like sensory overload, and there are cheap tricks thrown in. But it's all in the fun and joy. It also lacks consistency, feeling more like a compilation only glued together by similar mixing style. But it's enjoyable and fun with an appropriate track listing. For albums that border house and pop, this is one of the better ones I've heard.

Really kinda cool

I'm not sure if I be embarrassed to admit it, but I have three Basement Jaxx albums (including this one), and I'm always impressed with how fun and positive (optimistic?) their music is, sort of a guilty pleasure I guess? I'm not sure I'd rank this as their best album, but for a debut album I can see how it took the music (dance) scene by storm, and it has a number of very solid songs on it. I've never seen their music videos before, and all of the videos for their singles on this album are fun to watch, and uniformly odd. (Most of the videos remind me of a much more recent Brazilian movie, "Bacarau") I also love it that they did the soundtrack to the best pothead aliens movie you'll likely see, "Attack the Block", and while I didn't know it at the time, it totally makes sense.

naked men on the cover 5/5

I probably wouldn't sit around listening to this because it seems more like a kind of mix of techno, house, dance, pop, but I thought the music was pretty good and would be good background for coding or for a party.

This album immediately throws you into a 90s club. I loved some songs and barely liked others but overall great vibes. I thought the woman singing in red alert sounded familiar so I looked her up and she wasn't who I was thinking of but she didn't do much else until the 2014 release of Blue James which is great it's very little dragon esque. Favorite Song: Jump 'N Shout 7/10

One big thing for me with house music is if you can keep me bobbing and not bored, you’ve done well. This album had moments where I was ready for the next movement or the next track, but mostly kept me into it. I’d say a solid B grade.

Desperately need to hear this album in a club… 8.9/10

Peppy and dancy. None of it made me really excited but it was a nice little jumpstart to my day.

My expectations were low and this exceeded them. A couple of songs on here I knew and they still hit, and there was a pleasant amount of variety - I enjoyed the more chilled abstract songs as much as the bangers.

This album really encapsulates the issue with the 1001 albums project. It's impossible to listen to albums when they came out, so therefore before everything they influenced came out. This album was a shot in the arm for UK dance music when it came out. But in the 20+ yrs (!) since things have changed. So what a lot of people probably find generic now was something edgy and out of left field for sure at the time.

As good as this kind of electronic pop music gets. At least 3 legendary songs that have been played in every club night for a couple of decades now, such as Rendez-vu, Red Alert, and Bingo Bango.

4.5

Perhaps the least-heralded of the bands who took rave and turned it into 'proper album music' (with the Chemicals, Underworld, Leftfield, Prodigy, Orbital) this is as light as a feather, perhaps a little overlong like several 90s dance albums, but full of lovely touches.

Interesting, Primal Scream type combo of dancey and rockish sounds, without having the soul and songwriting skills of Primal Scream - but an interesting, not unpleasant listen that gets pretty cool in places. 'Red Alert' is pretty damn funky. Some parts, eg. Same OId Show, are artistic and quite trippy and poignant - if too repetitive. Some sort of emotion is missing from all this... but it's clever and fun. What is unpleasant is the cover. Not really artistic, just kind of grotesque. Doesn't particularly back up the sounds.

Red alert, red alert, it’s a Sunday dance party!

Lovely album.

Basement Jaxx have been the soundtrack to a lot of my life. The maximalist production definitely isn't for everyone, but it suits me to a T. Could listen to every track on repeat except "U Can't Stop Me" and "Same Old Show"

Fun, diverse, energetic music! Bit of Drum 'n Base, bit of Triphop, bit of funk, bit of jazz, bit of noise (Dont Give Up song)all very cheerful. Best track: Red Alert. And I did like the "Jazzalude"

Some deep grooves, very fun to listen to.

I don't know if it was just my mood, but I really liked this 4/5

A lot of house classics. I’m a sucker for anything released by XL. The interludes are really interesting as well.

Remarkably good. Hard to believe I have never heard this whole album. It's right on the border of 5 stars.

Pretty good but the lyrics are sung weirdly

I'm a sucker for Basement Jaxx. Not my fave (Rooty) but still fun for days.

Fun dance music that was great motivation on a bike ride

Прикол, не слушал

Upbeat dance music. The second part of the album slows down a bit. Although not my normal jam I would say it’s well made

I really enjoyed this. The front half was a barn burner and the back half really settled into a grove. There is an awkward transition point in the middle for a couple songs that I don't love but w/e.

OK, not every track was great but they make great dance music which I like to think of as the modern KC & The Sunshine Band so for that reason it’s a rare 4* from me !

Wow, I wasn't expecting some actually good and interesting electronic music today, considering how the rest of this list has gone for that route, on average. This had lots of charm, fun beats, good variety and experimentation. Good stuff!

I was truly impressed with this at the outset, but much like it's contemporaries, it suffers from bloat. A LOW four, but it makes the cut.

Een soort huismerk Daft Punk, maar dan wel zo'n zeldzaam geval waar het huismerk product beter bevalt dan het A-merk. De openingstrack is erg lekker (beter dan het bekendere Red Alert) en daarna kabbelt het lekker voort met toch nog genoeg afwisseling. Ik had verwacht dat het wat kitscherig gedateerd zou klinken, maar dat is eigenlijk helemaal niet zo in mijn beleving. Het album had wel wat korter gemogen. Niet elke track is om over naar huis te schrijven. Same Old Show bijvoorbeeld, wegsnijden die handel. Al met al een prima plaat van kelder sjaakie. 4 minus.

Weird, but I liked a few tracks quite a bit. Kinda surprising that it came out in 99

Wow - what a punch to the ear drums and brain this was for a dreary Thursday morning where I'm processing some kind of virus. I obviously new some of these songs, but definitely not all of them. Interesting to hear how much more dance-y electronic Basement Jaxx used to be. It was good fun and I want to listen again.

Maybe this evidences my naivety of dance music, but I had no idea that Basement Jaxx were good enough to be considered an essential listen. Don’t get me wrong, I like Where’s Your Head At (not on this album) but otherwise I this they’ve just passed me by. Songs I already knew: Red Alert, Bingo Bango Favourites: Rendez-Vu, Bingo Bango It turns out I recognise a few more Basement Jaxx songs than I initially realised. A lot of this album had me bopping my head along and having a good time. It music that’s hard not to dance to. My only nitpick is that I really didn’t like Same Old Song. It samples On My Radio by The Selector which is a song that I love, but I felt that this just ruined a great song. On the whole, I was mostly a rump shake though.

Fun. A nice balance of repetitive and fluctuation. This music makes me think of tagging along with a friend to a clothing store that is not quite my style and costs more than I would typically spend.

Distinct but very good. Enjoyable listening and not something I expected. Better than I hoped.

3.5/5

Extremely danceable, some very cool sounds, if I liked house this would be a very hard hitter.

First half is very conventional big beat music, play it at the club, have a great time. But the back half gets more experimental and, to my ears, much more interesting. By the last few tracks they've abandoned any dance pretenses and dived right into experimental R&B sounds. It's worth the wait to get to lo-fi Prince-infused closer "Being With U" -- the sonic equivalent of brushing your teeth and flopping into bed as the sun comes up.

Red Alert goes craaazy so I’m pretty sure the rest of the album did too

Absolutely top tier dance. Great beats, well sequenced, and with remarkable sonic variety.

Driving, insistent, sweaty house goodness. Forgot this album existed. Thanks for the memories.

I like this one. A little rap, a little funk, a whole lotta cool.

I quite enjoyed this, I think I was in the mood. Powered through some work with it on in the background. Loads of memories from University again, used it as "white noise" when writing reports and theses. Red Alert still pretty great.

4/5

Entertaining party music, Basement Jaxx elevate EDM with soul, funk and Latin influences. Unpretentious and unashamedly upbeat.

A friend came to Canada in the decade after the fall of the Berlin wall. Like hundreds (probably thousands?) of Eastern European women in the 19-23 age range at that time, she was able to get a visa to work in the, shall we call it, exotic dancing profession. Apparently, there was a lot of Canadian demand and a lack of Canadian supply back then. I guess you could say that in the 1990s we were getting bombshells from Eastern Europe whereas these days we are sending bombshells to Eastern Europe.  I didn't meet her until after her exotic dancing days although I've seen pictures from then and they're fabulous. She and I were hanging out yesterday and I put on Basement Jaxx. When the first song started she said "Hey - I used to dance to this song at For Your Eyes Only". 

Basement Jaxx production has always sounded very cluttered and dense to me, to the point where there’s so much going on sometimes, it’s hard to feel the beat or the mood of the music. This impression was confirmed when I listened to this on the plane yesterday with engine noise, announcements etc. I was thinking a 2 or a 3. But I listened again while unpacking this morning and I have a greater appreciation for the quirky song-writing and constant nods to 70s funk. Rendezvous, YoYo, Jump & Shout and Bingo Bango are catchy. Red Alert is a good example of how a big hit (in the UK anyway) can also be an epic track. I’m disappointed with the Wiki write-up which credits only the two producers. There are in fact, a half-dozen vocalists plus a pianist and violinist who contribute some great solos.

It's the debut album. The jams are still jams, bingo bango, red alert, jump and shout. I found the rest of the album a bit mid though. Definitely not bad, but I didn't enjoy it as mush as I thought I would. Closer to a 4 than a 3, but whatevs

This was some sexy dance dance music.

Pretty great, sweaty, pounding music. Polished and a bit sleazy, which is an odd combination.

Great album that I've been listening to for a long time

How do I rate an album which makes me think: "Hmmm, interesting"? I guess it's a 3.6/5 The music isn't very memorable, for sure the cover is. Favourite songs: Rendez-vu and Red Alert

This is a really good album with some unusual samples.

Good fun, upbeat mostly interesting dance (funky house?). Just a couple of slower, repetitive or irritating songs.

If Funk and Techno had a baby that was adopted by The Lords of Acid, you'd get this album.

House. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

7/10 pretty fun electronic album

This is a weird one. If you would ask me few days ago if I'm Basement Jaxx fan, I would reply "Of course!". But after listening with special care to "Remedy", I am not so sure anymore. All the songs that I like, especially "Where's your Head at?", are from different albums, and this one actually doesn't have that much hits or outstanding tracks. The best song in my opinion is not really well known "Don't Give Up", which isn't that obvious electronic-disco track we identify with Basement Jaxx. Singles aren't really attractive and lack the "headbanging" element to it. But maybe that's just my twisted vision of those type of bands. I think I will break my own rules and give a rating to the band, not to the album (as I don't think any other record will be on this list). 3 stars for "Remedy", 5 for Basement Jaxx, so 4 in total today.

Memories.

I remember Red Alert playing on KROC in Rochester when I was about 12, and because of that, I thought I would cringe listening to this album. However, it grooves pretty damn hard. I was tired of it by the end, but the first half really had me going.

This album is the remedy to boring music.

It made me dance

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Rendez vu, Yo yo, U can’t stop me, Bingo bango

What a way to start a vacation weekend

House. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Dance electronic music a la Daft Punk. I only knew BJ from "Where's Your Head At?" but this album was really enjoyable from front to back. Added a couple songs to spotify

Chill vibes, cool songs. I like it. Idk house I guess?

This felt like watching adult swim as a 7 year old. I listened to a lot of it a second time, and it grew even more on me. This album borders on a 5. Best songs: Red Alert, Yo-Yo, Worst Songs: Same Old Show

Really fun adventurous electronic album. Though the interludes don't add much and there are some autopilot tracks, when they turn it on, it's lit. Bingo Bango and Rendez-Vu are super strong.

It’s a good record, but it’s just not for me.

6th July 2022 Listened while travelling in and finished in the office. Went for post work beers then met Cox after. Love a bit of basement jaxx, they have such a unique sound which you could call a mile off.

Very interesting house album. Plenty of great tracks that sound slightly ahead of their time, but also a few tracks that fall a bit short. Fun listen though.

Cool

Fuck yeah, this was cool. One of my favorite parts of doing this list has been discovering these sample-heavy records

Ktebt 5 Saf7at Fy 3l Bouheli Mte3 Dostoevsky. Still Waiting For Calls.

good electronica sound!

EDM pre-dating 2010/2011-ish, which was when I first became aware of any of that. This one made for, like, decent focusing music for me, but wasn’t particularly memorable

would rave again

I have gotten to listen to a good variety of electronic dance music so far on this project. Because this genre is by nature repetitive, it can veer to tedious and boring. I didn't feel that with this album. I love the little interludes, especially "Jazzalude," and I like the variety of sounds that each track has while still feeling cohesive to the whole album.

I had a great time dancing for the first half-hour or so and then I was tired and ready to lie down. Terrific fun ... for a while.

Great dance music album. I was familiar with a few of the songs on this album already and liked them. My favorite songs: “Rendez-Vu” - great dance track “Jump n’ Shout” - nice variety, with its super fast lyrics “U Can’t Stop Me” - great vocal performance “Red Alert” - I remember this song well, felt like 20 years ago back on the dance floor “Always Be There” - the off-kilter beats and smooth sound give more nice variety to the album “Same Old Show” - fun samples, I’m a sucker for the moan “Bingo Bango” - great Brazilian-feeling dance tune - perhaps my favorite on the album This is a fun listen. Enjoyed it a lot!

Good soundtrack to a Lime scooter into the valley on a Thursday

Asskolli hresst. Hélt mér á róðrarvélinni í tæpan klukkutíma!

I find "Where's Your Head At" to be rather grating, so I did not have high expectations for this. AND YET. Some supremely gnarly grooves, and some truly beautiful melodies. A kickass album from front to back.

yes ok

Freakin awesome. Some missteps but I ain’t mad at it

Bangers

some funky good time rollin tunes for the soul of a desperate man with no trouble on his mind or heart

Loved to start, wasnt so sure about the second half which is a shame. Still full of great tracks though

Great fun.

Never heard any of their early stuff. I can see they had a lot of innovation going and sound that carried forward. Can’t say much of this was ultra memorable but it’s a good enough listen.

Fun 70s disco flavor. Made for a nice ride into work...

Llegó para revolucionar la música de baile con su House revitalizado y revitalizante. Bailongo total.

Ik verwachtte wat eentonig gedoe, maar kreeg heel wat variatie en werd zowaar vrolijk van dit album!

Banger