Remedy

Fuck ass album cover. Overall, I am just not a fan of most electro, and especially not for an hour straight. Yo Yo was goofy and ridiculous as fuck and I feel like if they leaned into that the rest of the way I might have liked this more.

Some highlights with the singles but a little too boring

Basement Jaxx were alway in the second tier of the electronic acts that became mainstream in the late 90's. Less widely popular than The Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim, but slightly above others like Groove Armada. I think I enjoyed their second album a bit more, but this, their debut, isn't bad either. Still, they come across as more of a singles artist to me. Key tracks: Red Alert Bingo Bango

I think I could have died without listening to this.

Basement Jaxx are a name i see thrown around mostly outside of the dance music world nowadays. i chalk this up to them being an album act. kind of impressive at how infrequently songs stray from the "pretty good" mark. not much i would put on a playlist but a good enough vibe all around. deserves to be one of the 1001? nah swap it for Rooty. but better this than neither tbh.

Some great tracks

No wonder the rest of the world hates us when we keep giving them shit like this to listen to!

Better than I was expecting. Slightly artificial and forced sound that is inferior to other artists of the time but an enjoyable enough listen.

Occasionally clean and funky, but ultimately the vocorder abuse, general jumping around, and quite stark and overly obtrusive samples and sounds don’t make it very coherent or easy on the ear. I like a lot of their contemporaries, but this has always sounded like a bit of a mess to me.

Some good noise but noise

Okay, whatever that was. Undanceable dance music. I know it was recorded by Basement Jaxx because they say “Basement Jaxx” about 400 times. Cool album cover.

Sounded like I was listening to the late night DJ radio mix and simultaneously strolling down the beach in Ibiza

90s summer dance bangers front to back. Hard to hate

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!

OUHHH da isch öppis vergesse gange hahaha oke es isch na funny de beat isch so punchy falls das sinn macht YOUU YIUUU YOUU YOU YOYOYOYOUUU oke es isch scho lustig aber ich hoffe, dass ichbjz nöd 50 min quirky funny noises muss zuelose? okok es gfalltmer chli besser, es isch immerna quirky aber nöd glich on the nose hahaha genau denn wenn ich das schrieb chunnt same old show omg ich lieb bingo bango HAHAHAHAHAHA WAAAS ISCH don't give up iwiei schona geil hmmm schwierig, ich glaub es hetmer chli zu vill random quirky sache gha aber ich hans immer wieder reeecht geil gfunde, guets 3?

fire. great basslines, fantastic mastering. even the weakest track (same old show) is a heater in a mix as long as you don't hang out there for more than probably two of its six minutes.

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

Not feeling it. I hate to say "it sounds like a bunch of noise" because I listen to a lot of music that can be categorized as that (metal, industrial, dubstep, etc). I also listen to a lot of electronica (including a TON from the 90s...too much to name), as well as a lot of "weird" music (Mike Patton-anything, Primus, Björk, etc). But this is for a way different level of ADHD than what my brain can tolerate. Ok... there is *ONE* redeeming track on this album. Very last one, "Being With U"

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.

This is pretty average ’90s electronic dance music. Nothing really stands out, and even the catchier tracks fade from memory quickly. By the time the album ends, there’s very little that sticks with you.

Great album!

A few catchy singles but really dips off at the end. I absolutely wasn’t in the mood for this today but there’s really not much wrong with it.

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!

Perfectly fine dance music, and an enjoyable listen overall, but I've heard at least 2 of these tracks as TV bumper music countless times. I hear the house influence, but to my ears this album is a lot closer to electro, techno, and UK garage. Yet another example on this list where the author includes some white British guys making dance music that copies directly from styles pioneered by Black Americans without acknowledging these originators. I'm fine with this being on the list if you also add some Whodini, Zapp, Mantronix, and for the love of G-d, some actual Detroit techno. Clear by Cybotron is a no brainer and should be included in a future edition.

Nope

I can imagine listening to this at the cusp of Y2K in a dingy, sweaty club. Fun, dance-y vibes. Why that one song sound like an orgy though.

I only got through Rendez-Vu in its entirety, started skipping after that, and tapped out in Red Alert. This album would be fun if it's 1999 and you're absolutely piss drunk at a packed club, probably! I don't know though, I was six when this album dropped. Also it looks like their most recent EP uses AI art for the cover and video, so 👎

Some songs were good, but I don't think this style of dance music is for me.

i’ve heard japanese noise rock more listenable than this.

A bumping, sweaty club record that I actually moderately enjoyed. Nothing like some big beats and moaning while I’m working away at my office job. I don’t know if I’ll revisit in full, but I squirreled some tracks away for future use.

Some great beats. Not usually my music but it made my morning walk really bouncy and enjoyable. A bit too sexual for casual family listening though.

**An ok album

не любитель хауса, но сойдёт. троечка

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

too electronic. not enjoyable.

Made it a minute - Not my thing

Pretty cool 90s electronic.

6/10

I don’t like techno but I do like techno-ish pop music. This isn’t full on block rocking one more time firestarting territory, but it’s also not just pure uncha uncha, so I was fairly cool with it.

Good stuff.

ok

It was alright.

This is better than a lot of the other EDM I've heard. It's definitely less repetitive, and a reasonable length. Maybe I just prefer house, because that's the only kind of electronica I've ever actually really liked.

I don't like this.

Some sick beats here, but as always, why would I listen to a whole album of this?

This is bad. Sorry. I don't care for Electronica, and in particular, this offered me little. There are some edges of Electronica that I can dig (Elastica, Deee-Lite, Technotronic). But this? No.

nie bylo to remedium na moje negatywne uczucia do muzyki tanecznej

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

Not really my thing but a good example of the genre

Red alert is a good song. The rest sounds like a bunch of synthesized noise thrown in a pot and stirred.

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

Interesting sound in some track, atrocious vocals in others (first two in particular). I wish they were an instrumental group and more experimental, less pop. I liked the male vocals in "Jump n shout".

1. vu - 1.5 2. yo - 1.5 3. jump - 1.5 4. stop - 1 5. Jaxx - 0 6. Red - 2 7. Jazz - 1 8. There - 2 9. Sneak - 0 10. Show - 1.5 11. Bingo - 1.5 12. Lude - 0 13. Love - 1.5 14. Give- 2

Enjoyable house music, although what was, at the time, breaking new ground sometimes comes off as just a chore to listen to nowadays (could definitely stand for less of the cheesy vocal samples). "Red Alert" and "Being With U" are standout tracks for me. 7.5/10.

House music already isn't my thing, so I can't really find a reason to put this one on again

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.

Uhhh, should have been kept in the basement Jacks

Pretty boring as 90’s electronica goes. The moaning song made me want to go back to church.

The music you use to fill gaps between better songs at a club. There is just nothing here. 2/5.

Some of this I will never get, so it just won’t resonate, but at least I do not find this offensive.

A great 90s dance album. I like how a lot of the songs are different, not the same thing over and over again. Although, towards the end of the album I liked it less. Just be careful with the album cover if you're listening to this at work.

Not for me.

Some good tracks but overall bit bland

not my thing

This could be based on 100,001 albums and this one still shouldn’t have made the list. Avoid this one at all costs.

If I heard it in a club I would dance for sure, but purely listening it wasn’t great. I do appreciate that the albums aren’t all just rock though, getting some house, jazz, etc.

Not great tbh there are way better electronic albums and I haven’t given anything a 2 yet. Red alert is a tune though

Basement jaxx tuttu mutta ei ollut koskaan omia suosikkeja vaikka Red alert on hyvä ralli. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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.

Einiges Tanzbares, der Rest Belangloses (mehr Sounds als Songs). Als Musik zum nur Hören an dieser Stelle verkehrt.

Honestly it was much better than people say. I liked it. Not to the level of the french house scene, but a good time

Like rave usually is...very repetitive. Good for certain situations only.

Who listens to this outside a club environment?

I don't usually listen to house so it took a few listens to take it in. I liked the half singing part in yo yo it was very entertaining "You were a prophet from above Then you came and sucked my blood My pain became my strength I am reborn I'm Def not dumb Lest you forget" Yo yo yo yo chanting ruins it a bit

Way more gritty and urban than I had realised. Didn’t really enjoy and put me off the songs I knew!

Mixed opinions. Some absolute bangers, special mention to U Can’t Stop Me. Worth a listen defo 👂

As someone who has not really engaged with house that much, I really enjoyed this. I liked that it blended house with other styles like funk and pop, maybe made it a little more accessible. I like that these feel like songs too rather than just continuous noise, the songs have structures. It is just a really fun album, don’t imagine myself coming back very often but I enjoyed my time with it.

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.

I really didn't know what to expect with this album, and I'm surprised I managed to sit through all of it. I didn't necessarily dislike Remedy, but most of the songs really weren't for me, with the exception of the tracks Always Be There and Being With U. The track Same Old Show however I had to skip halfway through due to the constant moaning. I hope to one day come back to this album and think of it differently, but I don't believe that day is going to be soon.

It's pretty solid house music, feels like the transition between aphex twin/daft punk and swedish house mafia/Skrillex

Non il mio genere preferito, si salva per un paio di pezzi che hanno un po' di tiro (ma non troppo)

Mostly skips.

I know I was listening in the wrong environment, but Rendez Vu and Bingo Bango are the stand-out tracks in an album that I would ignore even on the dance floor.

It’s decent EDM. Reviews are harsh

Fun fact, I heard a cover of 'Where's your head at' on my way into work this morning and was struggling to remember the name of the original artist. Then I open up this page to get my album of the day and see Basement Jaxx; what a fun coincidence! It may not be on this album, but it was still the same artists out of potentially hundreds of artists. Overall okay, I think Red Alert saves it, brings it up to a 3 on that song alone.

house music core.

'Dance music,' which Basement Jaxx makes, has always been oxymoronic for me, not b/c dance + music don't go together - they clearly do - but b/c there's a way in which this is too on the nose: hearing these beats, all I'd like to do is dance and therefore all I can imagine doing is not dancing. I'm not sure what it is, but as soon as I figure I'll lean into their house magic, I retreat from the seduction. Perhaps that says something about me rather than the music, but I can't pretend to love this thing even if I kinda like it. It's as if you shouldn't have to claim a record as 'dance music': it either is or it's not, or maybe it depends on context. This genre is the context itself, so I'm left asking, dance music? How does that work? Influential Brits, tho.

This record was fun. I was groovin' to most of the first half of this record. It lacks the same energy as it did in the second half, which is unfortunate. Favourite Track(s): Red Alert Least Favourite Track(s): Same Old Show

Not a terrible listen. A couple of good songs. "Red Alert" being the best of them. But for the most part this is just "mediocre" late 90's electronica dance music.

2.5 If you like late 90s dance music then you'll probably like this. Some of the tracks were fun to listen to, but at nearly an hour this album is way too long. Not really my thing but I didn't hate it.

I don't know what it is but it's awesome.

Rendez-Vu Jump n' Shout Red Alert

so not my thing

Transiciones suavecitas pa mover la colita lol, aunque tiene unas que están muy pa cute british boy que no sabe bailar, pero no sé si eso es bueno o malo 🤔 (es la única de sus portadas que no está fea jajajaj)

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.

Did you see Basement Jaxx in the boiler room, brah? Fully sick aye. Fckn nuts brah. See ya in Environmental Law 201 next week brah.

짱 조은디 나 하우스 좋아하는 듯

some absolute bangers intermingled with some other nice tunes. excellent for partying

Yeah this is not for me..

Todella rasittavaa kuunneltavaa. En ole tälläisen jumputusmusiikin suurin ystävä, mutta lähdin silti avoimin mielin kuuntelemaan tätä. Oli tässä joitakin hyviä hetkiä, mutta lähes tunnin pituinen kokonaisuus ei ansaitse yhtä tähteä enempää. Haasteen huonoin levy tähän mennessä.

Bass heavy dance music with a couple of big singles. Totally fine by me.

Immersive. I listened while watching an NFL playoff game with the sound off, which worked pretty well

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

I bought and listened to list album in the 90s and have not revisited it till today. I can see why! It has not aged well and apart from the singles all feels a bit pointless.

this is so not for me. i get what type of scenarios it would be cool in but i honestly hate this so much. it's just odd dance music from the 90s/early 2000s an i don't like it

some great tunes on this to be fair

I think I enjoyed listening to it as a whole but the individual songs didn't quite catch me.

Interesting mixture of old school music and electronic.

Its 7:30 AM, time for your british electro-slop!!!! - Robert Dimery This album is so boring

house/eletronic isn’t not really my thing, don’t feel it deep down, but I see how it could be exciting for a party if you’re from the uk

I was about to give this album a one, really. I even thought out a critique saying how this was blatant, and much against Simon Ratcliffe's notions of how the dance scene has songs so blank and empty, almost soulless, and this album was an oxymoron and an example of his own critic. Then i read Alternative Press' comment of this album: "Somewhere in this album, Basement Jaxx has created something for everyone." while i listened to Red Alert and Jazzalude. I was ashamed of my earlier comments and my youthful ignorence. I completely agree with Alternative Press, this album DOES have a song for everyone, which is something very hard to achieve in a dance/EDM album. Props. 5 Stars. I fw anything after Red Alert.

Nice hiphop, chill vibes

I don't think I'm ever going to come full around to enjoying Drum n Bass EDM. This album however had some fairly enjoyable (if fleeting) moments that didn't make it a total slog to get through. Still not good, but not wholly terrible. Top tracks: Jump N' Shout, Don't Give Up

The bangers on this are great, the rest was ok

i like some of the elements in the album but mostly they don’t go together. this doesn’t even feel like an album. it’s too random and has aged poorly

I don’t think I was on the right drugs to fully enjoy this.

Ketamine hit different in 2026

No party was started with this album...

An interesting mix of stuff that almost sounds familiar.

There might’ve been a song or two that got my attention, but those moments weren’t enough to tip the scales.

Ew DNF Best Song: N/A Rating: 2.5/10 Stars: 2

Generic electronic music that was probably used in a Kia Sole commercial.

Y’all aren’t brat and it shows. This album isnt bad at all i just dont think it was meant for listening to like casually like this was for clerb not a casual Wednesday 💀 With that being said, listening to it in one sitting is a lot, it gets very repetitive, I saved 7/15 songs so 3 stars

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

WHERE S YOUR HEAD AT HEAD AT HEAD AT а, бля, это не тот альбом. ну ладно.

Perfect e-music album! It is likely that it is on the best dance albums forever, IMHO! Very interesting sound. Some track are amazing! First three are the masterpieces - Rendez-Vu, Yo-Yo and Jump n' Shout. The same for Bingo Bango and Red Alert.

This felt like party music, but wasn’t really my style.

It's a very simple sound and not well done.

Not bad by any means; definitely a little forgettable though, and it probably doesn't help that I already listen to a fair amount of music in this vein that is more up my alley. The best songs here struck me as a not-as-good Daft Punk.

Electronic music that sounds like it isn’t only played by robots, but was composed for robots. No soul. 1.5 stars.

this a banger

Amazing, truly amazing

The kind of music playing from a stage I would walk straight past at a festival

Low rise ultra baggy jeans? ✅ thong? ✅ crop top? ✅ *Shakes ass aggressively*

It's fine, but I don't think it's as amazing as some of the hype around it implies!

Not necessarily a fan of dance music, and this does tend to drag a bit in places for me, but they were brilliant when I saw them live at Milton Keynes as a support act and I do like Rendez-Vu and especially Red Alert, which is excellent.

Boring, mostly just noise a couple of tracks resembled music e.g. the last track "Being with U', but they were meh.

A fatiguing listen - I don’t feel like I should be playing this music in my house..

Was expecting more bangers like red alert. Also, cut it out with the ???ludes

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.

Thumping bass and some undeniable bangers

Annoying.

03/10 11.01.2026

Good album with some good tunes. Made me remember how good they are

Some good hits but kinda long of an album imo

Classic and nostalgic

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

give me a flaming bottle of vodka and that 2 could be jaxxed up

0.8/5 This has never been my style of music and this album did nothing to change my opinion. I've only heard where's your head at, and I actually like that song but unfortunately it's not on this album.

Fuck 90s electronica. This one may just be a lifetime achievement award by all the albums just like this on this list that came before this, but I just can’t fucking take it anymore. These albums all crawled around and shat themselves so that other electronic music could point, laugh and run.

Well, not into EDM music so much but I have to say I enjoyed this listen. The grooves had me bouncing around the house. My favorite song was probably the most popular song on the album, red alert.

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.

Another on where I like the samples but the rest bores me to tears. I don’t hate it, I just wouldn’t listen to it out of choice. Maybe it’s good driving music because it keeps you awake?

I recognize there's a time and a place for this music. Maybe I'll revisit when I'm there.

I don't know why I keep thinking we've reached the end of electronica albums on this list, and I keep getting disappointed when yet another one shows up. Having said that, I didn't hate this, but I don't know why this had to be put on the list. There is nothing to distinguish this from any other mid electronica album.

This got my groove going during work.

This is not an album to listen to while 100% sober at work. Unfortunately, that is where and how I listened to it. I may have enjoyed this under other circumstances, but just couldn't really get into this time. I'm not sure if I'll feel inclined to try it again. Overall: 1.9/5

Favorite Track: Rendez-Vu

bem house beats, gostosinho de ouvir mas as vezes ficava meio repetitivo tipo dando bode da musica. achei o violino no stop 4 love bem legal. overall vejo como pode ser referencia de house e batidas hj em dia mas nao achei world changing

Didn't realise we knew Basement Jaxx until we got to the absolutely iconic Red Alert, one of the many club classics on this album. Some decent stuff but not an album we'd race to seek out again.

1/2/25. Found this boring. Red Alert is a good song, but couldn't connect with this one.

Techno isn't my jam, but this album is a pretty fun listen. I can totally imagine it playing in clubs in Ibiza, and people just having a great time. It's more house and has an interesting mix of instrumentation. It's a high-3 for me.

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

How did so much electronic music sneak its way into this book? It feels like every single person who ever received a Casio keyboard as a gift was handed a recording deal and guaranteed a spot on the list. Hands down, this was the most painful one I’ve had to slog through.

Mind-numbingly repetitive, superficial, empty, soulless.

Some downtime psychopathic decisions on here. Would be a 2* but it's way too long

Esse é o pior álbum que eu já ouvi

QUE TORTURA MEU DEUS

New to me. Album #9 on my list. First album on here I wasn't very familiar with which was fun. I enjoy house/techno, but have never really paid much attention to individual artists or albums in the genre. This is pretty good, interesting layered sounds. Definitely goes beyond just a beat for dancing. In fact I don't think much of this is that great for dancing to, too many little hitches and variations. Probably not something I'll come back to, but I had a good time. Too long, started to drag 3.5 stars, round down to 3 because 4 implies either something that I want to own and have in regular rotation or something that feels particularly important or influential. While I enjoyed this, it doesn't meet those criteria. favs - don't give up, Same old show

Meh.

Its tecno. All starts to sound the same but not terrible.

Not bad for a genre I don't generally care for.

Not what I was expecting based off that album art I’ve seen for decades. Not terrible. Not my favorite.

1999, fin de siècle, fin de millénaire. Le monde entier flippe à cause d'un bug informatique qui menace de transformer nos grille-pains en terminaux Skynet, et pendant ce temps-là, à Brixton, deux types décident que la meilleure façon d'accueillir l'apocalypse, c'est d'organiser une fête foraine sous ecstasy dans un placard à balais. Felix Buxton et Simon Ratcliffe, alias Basement Jaxx, lâchent "Remedy" comme on lâche une bombe de confettis dans une bibliothèque : c'est bruyant, c'est coloré, ça colle partout, et au bout de dix minutes, on a juste envie de tout nettoyer au Kärcher. Bon, on ne va pas se mentir, à sa sortie, ce disque a été vendu comme le messie de la House Music. La critique britannique, toujours prompte à s'enflammer pour tout ce qui sort de ses propres égouts, hurlait au génie. Il faut dire que le contexte aidait. On sortait d'une période où la "French Touch" (Daft Punk, Cassius et compagnie) avait imposé une certaine élégance, un filtre disco chic et un peu répétitif. Basement Jaxx, c'était la réponse des Rosbifs : "Vaffanculo l'élégance, nous on veut du bordel." Et du bordel, il y en a car "Remedy", c'est l'anti-minimalisme par excellence. C'est un disque qui refuse le vide, c'est une sorte d'horror vacui sonore où chaque seconde doit être remplie par un sample de trompette, un cri de diva, une ligne de basse funky ou un bruitage de cartoon. Sur le papier, c'est une intention louable : ramener l'énergie brute, le punk et le "Do It Yourself" dans une musique électronique qui commençait à se prendre un peu trop au sérieux. Sauf que l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions, et surtout de rythmiques qui ne s'arrêtent jamais. Le problème majeur de cet album, et c'est ce qui justifie ce plafonnement à une note moyenne de 3 sur 5, c'est cette sensation d'étouffement progressif. Dès l'ouverture avec "Red Alert", le ton est donné. C'est efficace, indéniablement. La production est une prouesse technique pour l'époque car faire cohabiter autant de sonorités disparates – du Ragga, de la Salsa, du Funk, de la House de Chicago – sans que ça sonne comme une bouillie infâme, c'est un tour de force. Le morceau titre tape dur, c'est hymnesque, c'est taillé pour les stades. Mais ensuite ? Ensuite, c'est la même chose.... Encore... et encore. Écouter "Remedy" d'une traite, c'est comme être coincé dans un ascenseur avec un animateur de club Med sous cocaïne qui te hurle "ALLEZ ON S'AMUSE !" à 5 centimètres du visage. "Rendez-Vu" ? Pareil. "Bingo Bango" ? Pareil, mais avec des castagnettes. "Jump N' Shout" ? Le titre est littéral : ça saute et ça gueule. L'album souffre d'un syndrome de linéarité fatale. Il n'y a aucune dynamique émotionnelle, c'est l'encéphalogramme plat de l'excitation permanente. Pour quiconque a les oreilles formées à des structures un peu plus narratives – qu'on vienne du rock, du post-punk ou même d'une électro plus cérébrale – cette absence de "vallées" rend les "pics" totalement inopérants. Si tout est fort, plus rien n'est fort. Si tout est festif, la fête devient une corvée. On a cette impression tenace et désagréable d'écouter le même morceau remixé treize fois avec des presets différents sur le synthétiseur. Et c'est là tout le problème car Basement Jaxx confond "énergie" et "agression". Ils ont tellement peur qu'on s'ennuie qu'ils saturent l'espace. C'est de la musique pour TDAH (Trouble du Déficit de l'Attention avec/sans Hyperactivité) avant l'heure. Il faut que ça bouge, il faut que ça clignote. C'est l'équivalent sonore d'un site web des années 90 rempli de GIFs animés qui te donnent une crise d'épilepsie. Pourtant, il y a des idées et c'est ça qui est frustrant. On sent que derrière les machines, il y a des mecs qui ont une culture musicale encyclopédique. Ils piochent partout, sans vergogne, avec une irrévérence qui fait plaisir à voir. Ils désacralisent la House. Ils ne cherchent pas le son pur, ils cherchent le son sale, le son qui vit, le son qui transpire. Il y a un côté organique, presque "garage" (au sens rock du terme) qui aurait pu être génial s'il n'était pas systématiquement noyé sous des couches de vernis pop et de gimmicks radio. Mais l'auditeur qui cherche un peu de profondeur, un peu de mystère, ou soyons fous, un peu de mélancolie, se retrouve face à une porte close. C'est un album qui n'a aucune ombre. Tout est sous les projecteurs, tout est surexposé. C'est de la musique de consommation immédiate, du fast-food auditif cinq étoiles. C'est délicieux sur le moment, c'est gras, c'est salé, ça explose en bouche, mais une heure après, on a le ventre lourd et on a déjà oublié quel goût ça avait. On se rend compte aussi, avec le recul, à quel point ce son est daté. Autant certains albums de 1999 (pensez à ce qui se faisait chez Warp ou même dans le Trip-Hop finissant) gardent une aura intemporelle, autant "Remedy" est prisonnier de son époque. Il sent la vodka-Redbull tiède et les pantalons baggy en synthétique. Il est le témoin d'une époque où l'on pensait que la technologie allait nous sauver par la danse. C'est touchant de naïveté, mais c'est aussi incroyablement agaçant. Alors, pourquoi 3 sur 5 et pas moins ? Parce qu'on ne peut pas nier l'impact. Parce que "Red Alert" reste un monstre d'efficacité qui peut réveiller un mort (ou au moins le faire taper du pied). Parce que la production, aussi chargée soit-elle, est d'une propreté clinique. Et parce qu'il faut reconnaître à Buxton et Ratcliffe un talent certain pour la mélodie qui rentre dans le crâne au marteau-piqueur. C'est un "bon" album, techniquement parlant. Il remplit son contrat : faire danser les foules, vider les cerveaux, faire transpirer les corps. Mais pour moi, le chercheur d'or noir, l,amateur de textures qui grattent, de larsens qui pleurent et de basses qui racontent des histoires tristes, c'est un rendez-vous manqué. Je suis sorti de cette écoute épuisé, non pas parce que j'ai vécu un voyage intense, mais parce que j'ai subi un assaut. J'ai l'impression d'avoir passé 45 minutes dans une essoreuse à salade remplie de sifflets et de trompettes en plastique. C'est un album qu'il faut avoir entendu pour comprendre la bascule vers les années 2000 et l'avènement de cette électro "maximaliste", certes. Mais est-ce qu'on aura envie d'y retourner ? Pas vraiment car une fois qu'on a compris la blague, elle est beaucoup moins drôle.

I liked this one a bit more than I expected. Gets a lot of hate in the reviews!

I don't understand why so many have downvoted this album! It's an absolute banger! Some of these stars might be a little nostalgic, but I stand by that it is a great album! This was another of the albums my friends and I shared in our CD club in school, so its not only had many spins from me, but was also a regular at house parties! My friends and I made up a group dance to Red Alert which we 'performed' at every possible opportunity - ha ha! It was also my first graphic design 'job' - I redesigned the cover (not sure why, its pretty rad as it is!) as my first assignment in a graphic design short course in year 10, and as they say... the rest is history!

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

I wasn’t really blown away with this one.

This album was so boring, every song was either noise or soulless.

Can’t get into these guys

NON STOP AWSOMENESS

This is not an album for me.

Pretty stale club music.

An hour of soulless dance noise. No thanks - I won't be coming back for more. I can't understand why this is important and it certainly isn't enjoyable.

Was not expecting to see this on the list! Genuinely alarming that it’s 26 years old! Quite a few of the tracks on here are know to me as singles, but I’ve never listened to this album before. Listening to it in 2025 I can't say it's setting the world on fire for me as an album. Maybe it had more impact at the time of release? 1.5 rounded to a 2

😐

Oh dear. I remember "Red Alert" which I felt was a generic, but likeable dance track at the turn of the millennium. One song does not an album make. That one track drags this album above the 1 but what the heck.

I'm sure someone enjoys this, but it's not me. There are a couple of okay songs, but mostly this is so repetitive that it becomes annoying.

Most songs follow a predictable pattern common to electronic dance music. But there are one or two standouts -- "Red Alert", for example.

Not really into house music anymore so this was just a long hour. Not discounting the talent but not for me.

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.

Banging.

So of its time, turn of the millennium beats with random lyrics thrown on to and a lot of "yaw yaw" noise and layered noodling. "Red Alert" and "Rendez-Vu" stand out as songs I heard in those turn of the millennium clubs 25 years ago, the rest is.... regrettable.

Not good, not bad

Cool reminder of good Times

When I first listened to this, I thought "I must be in the wrong mood to listen." However, after revisiting it multiple times over a couple of days, I can safely say that I do not like this album. It is grating.

I knew the hits off this, Red Alert and Remedy are club bangers, and Bingo Bango to a lesser extent, and even they are all essentially revamp of each other. But there's not a lot there other than this. Plenty of filler but nothing you would seek back out. 'Same Old Show' in particular, is atrocious. OK, some of it is decent background ambience and it ties together fine enough but it's overly long and just not enough here to go for the 4.

Red alert is still a tune but the rest of the album is largely random noises

Lively! Simple repetitive beats with sound effects (telephone ringing, cassette ff, submarine radar tone, female moaning) that are fun to listen to. Bingo Bango leads the way, but all songs are jaunty and good. (3.49*s) Will check out more from this strange duo.

Coming out of the basement, this duo throws together a decent party album. The drum beats are a little one-dimensional and it gets a bit noisy but you can't help but have a good time. Their top track "Where's Your Head At" (which I recently learned is a sample of Gary Numan's "M.E.") ain't on here so the honors go to "Red Alert." End slows down and lost my interest. I did not expect the Jaxx to make the list. Wasn't aware they were that big or influential. Not a bad listen but skippable at 1.89 stars.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see a 1999 house album from a band I've never heard of hit this list as it pretty much outlines the reason to run through this. Basement Jaxx did an admirable job putting together Remedy. As was the trend at the time this comes in at nearly 60 minutes, and while you get more bang for your buck it's a little too long. Despite this it's got a handful of creative and catchy tracks that I enjoyed. I might hit a couple of the hits in the future, but don't expect I'll come back to this much beyond this listen even if I enjoyed it for the most part. Not a bad album but probably gets filed away in the long run. Can't complain about more exposure to something I don't expect I would have heard otherwise. 2.69 stars

I knew I remembered Basement Jaxx from somewhere and it took until I listened to Red Alert for me to place them. It was also the only song I really enjoyed on the album.

First listen Saved 2/15 Top track: Rendez-Vu

Aptly named, there are strange things in the basement

basement jaxx! YAY! remedy? aww. . .

I couldn’t finish it just really not my style. However, after reading up on the artist I greatly respect this album!

Je suis passée à côté du concept.

Weird 90s electro music

Inoffensive but nothing really resonated

I remember this coming out in the day. I never bought the album. Now I remember why. There is no reason to remember or listen to this album anymore. It's time has passed into history where it should be left.

pop techno

Started off fine but got worse and worse. Only decent songs are Red Alert and Rendez-Vu.

Damn this was a good time. Blows my mind it came out 26 years ago.

Not quite my type of thing but some undeniably classic dance tracks in here. Feel like it might grow on me if I relisten

I listened to this on repeat more than i thought i would.

I've always appreciated that Basement Jaxx have always had *their* sound, pretty distinct from anyone else. It's also quite an aggressive sound which makes them a "sometimes" food for me and affects the rating I'm giving this album. The groove is excellent throughout, it's just quite a difficult listen in places.

Great beats and variety. Favorite track: Jump 'n' Shout

Very good at what it does, but what it does isn't for me

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 .

Okay.

Interesting isn't always good. 3/10

Some bangers, some fluff that doesn't translate well from dance floor to record

Techno originale qui ambiance plutôt bien après les morceau sont longs donc difficiles à écouter au quotidien.

4/10

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!

Didn't leave a major impression, don't think I'm a big house person

No. 2/5

Definitely a cool vibe. Needs a particular setting or day to jam to it

Nah 1.5/5

Litt gøy, egentlig

I already listened to this back in October 2020, and I had positive feelings. 5/5

I like groups LIKE Basement Jaxx, but I’ve never been able to get into them. I’m clearly in the wrong as this group has collaborated with many people I like and respect, but it’s just not my type of “boom boom” music. Too chunky for me.

Better than some electronic albums because of the R&B or jazz samples. It's still an electronic album, though.

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.

Trop de morceaux énervants

There are parallels to be drawn between Basement Jaxx and Daft Punk. Daft Punk feels a bit more refined to Basement Jaxx’s raw feel. Jaxx to me feels more DJ influenced, with less vocal focus and more on the rhythms and beats.

I did not care for this.

Fun. Appreciated.

Top 1000? 🤔

Background noise/5

Like the vibes but not my fave genre

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.

The best song is the one that’s 22 seconds. But sure let’s listen to the same loop for 6 minutes. I swear house music has to be the most pretentious art form

I thought this slapped. ovs got some 90s cringe in it but rly enjoyed

I'm not a fan of EDM and my ratings reflect that, but this is one of the better albums I've listened to on this list. I think maybe the vocals broke up the repetition that I have a problem with in the rest of the genre. Anyway, they had their own unique spin and I didn't mind that at all.

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

Das war anstrengend. Das klang für mich wie eine langweilige und noch anstrengendere Version von Daft Punk. Puh. Zu lang und alles gleich. Das war wirklich nichts für mich.

Not my thing 11/8/2025 10:23 am

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

This was a pleasant surprise. Started listening to this with coffee and dog walking. Finished it with deep breathing meditations while a kitten cat attacked my feet. Just exactly perfect start to a Saturday morning. Electronic music has been doing it for me this year. Now I'm listening to Kraftwerk.

Big beats are the best beats. Get high all the time. Best Tracks: U Can't Stop Me; Red Alert; Bingo Bango

Excellent

I’ve been into electronic music at the moment so I was digging this a lot

Not my thing. Few decent tunes

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

Eh. It's an electronic album, so... Still not really my thing. It isn't changing my mind on my issues with electronic. Jump n Shout is fun, at least.

An album very much set in its time, and not even one of the better ones from that time. Not a horrible album, but nothing special either.

Quote from Wikipedia: "Most dance music is very shiny and so robotic," Simon Ratcliffe told Rolling Stone. "There's just not much feeling. If we made a record like that, we'd be just like everybody else." Sorry to break the news to you, but this just sounds like everybody else! In fact all the songs just start to sound the same after awhile.

The only song I didn’t mind on this was Bingo Bango. The rest of it was just too much.

Generic clubby dance music. Maybe this is wildly significant and important but if it is, it's lost on me! Some nostalgia but mostly just kind of annoying. Would have been better without the obnoxious auto-tune.

boring

God this list is full of terrible electronica albums

Sigh, more 90s electronica. Tuneless, repetitive background music.

Quite experimental

Awful. I hate this music.

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.

Een par hits, dreunende beats. Ongetwijfeld ooit vooruitstrevend en je voelt dat er een hele edm-scène uit is voortgevloeid, maar als album niet heel overtuigend

Ei yhtään mun juttu. Ihme edm

4/5

Enjoyed it…made me feel like I was back in the 90’s

Bah-Ba-bah-b-b-b-Bingo Wingo!

this ain't no rendez-vu

Not for me

Proper electronic music.

Not for me

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

Enjoyed it. Some nice Saturday morning music. I’d forgotten about a good few of these tunes.

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

Higher than a 3 but not a 4. Rendez-Vu and Red Alert are highlights.

A FIRM and HEARTY 0/5. I can think of about four bars across this entire album that made me think: “I don’t want to die right now.”

Did not enjoy

Ok, I guess. Not really my thing. 3

Ok.

Lol boring

Not my cup of tea but enjoyable all the same.

Red alert is miles above every other song

Late 90s house parties would have gone craazy

Oh goodie. More forgotten and forgettable electronica.

Happy to see some House music on here. Basement Jaxx is a staple in the genre and while I haven't listened to this album specifically, many of the songs I instantly recognize as they've been remixed and included in sets for a long time. Most people have probably heard Red Alert. What I love about EDM is that you can just shut your brain off and just feel the music. Escape from what you're doing and go somewhere else in your mind and "the music keeps playing on and on".