Remedy

The record is basically a compilation of generic dance tracks that you instantly forget, even if you’re sober when you listen to them. I still enjoyed a few of the tracks, but I wouldn’t say it’s a record you have to hear before you die.

Cohesion: 4.5/5 Theme & Narrative: 0.5/1 Sonic Identity: 1/1 Arrangement Synergy: 1/1 Genre Authenticity; 1/1 Transitions & Flow; 1/1 Production: 4.5/5 Clarity & Balance; 1/1 Vocal Delivery; 0.5/1 Sound Design; 1/1 Dynamic Depth; 1/1 Mastering; 1/1 Enjoyability: 3/5 Immediate Engagement; 1/1 Replay Value; 0.5/1 Emotional Resonance; 0.5/1 Playlist Potential; 0.5/1 Sticking Power; 0.5/1 Composition: 4/5 Melodic Development: 1/1 Harmonic Progression: 1/1 Structure & Contrast: 1/1 Motif / Theme Usage: 1/1 Emotional Storytelling: 0/1 Favourite Songs: 3/15 - Rendez-vu - Yo Yo - Red Alert Final Thoughts: - Quite enjoyed this alternative, experimental electronic body of work - Can understand their influence - More of a background electronic kind of album - Reminds me of Bjork at times

‘When Basement Jaxx first rose to stardom, the duo was unsatisfied with the state of dance music, describing it as "linear" and "close-minded".’ So your solution to that is to make long, boring, repetitive, extremely un-danceable garbage?! Even at a club, this would suck.

A celebration of autotune’s awfulness.

Straight Gahbage

Where’s your Where’s Your Head At at? Shockingly annoying at times. There’s an okay Basement Jaxx album and it’s not this one.

Started pretty strong but each song got worse and worse. Bonus song for talking about jacking off in basements

Very mixed reaction to this. Was a lot of energy at times, and some tracks really had me invested. It didn’t gel together very well and felt quite messy.

I mean my dad's always been saying it, but Basement Jaxx are good?? I obviously know all the hits, but I wasn't expecting the industrial goth, some bits sounded a bit Arca, a bit Eartheater.. wasn't expecting that all.

Obvs there's loads of good fun Y2K party music on here, but I really loved the bits where they went away from that and into really experimental weirdo stuff particularly towards the end where it gets into propa murky drone

Very reminiscent of a very specific era of music.

Ehhh

Disjointed and noisy.

not doing it for me...

Honestly? Better than some electro stuff on here. But still, not good.

Goes hard on mute I hate this kind of music so much. I am not listening to 1h of this soulless dogshit. Id rather listen to Limp Bizkit. Im just gona put the sound all the way down to the point were its barelly audible and pretend like im listening to it.

I hated everything about the 4 minutes I heard from this album

The Basement Jaxx track we all know is on this. I didn’t know any others but that wasn’t so bad, they were as good as the famous one. This is not normally my kind of music, but I can see why this is as highly thought of. There’s a power to it.

Some bangers

This isn’t my vibe unfortunately. Hopefully, the next album will be great!

What’s that on the cover? Gross. I hate human’s meat.

I was surprised at how much I liked this. It’s very ambient and chill at times, but it’s also very dance and techno at times. I like the variety, and honestly it’s all done very well. I’m usually not much for the whole house/techno/dance genre, but I did enjoy this. It’s good background music.

Over 1000 in and albums like this make me want to quit.

В принципе, музыка довольно разнообразная, я имею в виду каждый отдельный трек. Но вот в рамках одной песни идёт бесконечное повторение одного и того же. Имеет место быть, но я это слушать не могу.

I like this. Especially liked Yo Yo. Sometimes it made me want to dance and sometimes it was chill. An enjoyable experience.

smooth and sexy

Good, but not their best.

Not my favorite

Something a bit different to the usual guitar music. In all honesty a mixed bag though. A few songs contained some pretty grating elements (the moaning noises in Same Old Show springs to mind although that song did contain an unexpected Selecter sample). Bingo Bango definitely a banger.

There is a place for this, but not on this list.

Um, this was amazing and so far ahead of its time I feel

Hadn’t listened to it for years but still great.

Some funky beats on here, Red alert is a classic. Thought it was overall fairly good but only a few standouts, can think of better dance albums, even their album Rooty is better than this one

"The sytem is down... the system is down." Why on earth is this album on the list!? Crap dance records like this are a dime a dozen, and there's absolutely nothing that separates this from any of the other electronic dance noise out there. 1 star.

Molly music (complimentary)

Not very into house as a genre but admittedly this is pretty catchy, and has some pretty sweet synths and samples. I think this album is probably quite fun in club or house party environments. My biggest issue is how repetetive it feels at times. Many of the songs repeat about twice as long as they need to. Same old show could be 2 minutes long but they just needed me to hear that moan sample 40 times. I think Stop 4 Love is the most interesting to me.

Bumpin and excellent, no complaints besides the interludes but I think I just don't generally like those in an album. Highlights: "Rendez-Vu", "Jump 'N Shout"

Some of the songs are ok. Most are repetitive garbage

Not really sure what that was - reading the description, I would have thought I would have enjoyed it more - felt a little simple and a little stuck in time. I’ve gotten more in electronic and IDM in the last several years, but I wouldn’t include this among examples that I enjoy.

Another soundtrack to late 90s bar shifts. I remember this one cos the boss bought it for the pub and one of my colleagues later admitted to nicking it. Back when music had a monetary value. Crazy times. Anyway, this is way more fun than the Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim.

Even the incredibly pervasive Red Alert which I’ve heard before, a lot, but didn’t know who it was by, could really lift this album above relentlessly mediocre. I never really caught onto the late 90s / early 2000s poppy dance crossover scene. Beyond the catchy stuff, there didn’t seem to be much depth and it’s all a bit soulless. I thought there was better stuff out there and this album really illustrates that opinion.

So much bounce in this. Great bass and fun vocals. Really good house album.

I missed this one at the time, so curious to see what all the fuss is about What a disappointment - Red Alert is it Turns out I only liked one particular remix of that song (not on the album), so the good news is I can cheerfully avoid this band for the rest of my life, but thanks to this process, that list is getting quite long!

Even by Electronica standards this was not special. Sorry, there are way, way better artists and albums out there

Can't be mad about fun dance beats

Hmmm nothing really stood out here

The only Basement Jaxx song I know is Where's Your Head At? I don't see it here. Where is it? It is infinitely better than anything on here & it ain't even that great. FAIL

Wild

Two good tunes on it. The rest is alright.

This genre is not really for me but I didn’t hate this.

Nothing here of interest at all for me.

pretty decent dance record, has some bops on it

I love house music but this album droned on for what felt like forever. Entirely held up by 2 singles, Basement Jaxx have done better

Started poorly and ended poorly, but the middle slapped a good amount

Surprised people would call this boring or background. Overall I found the album pretty jarring. "Yo-Yo" was a fun novelty song, "Don't Give Up" was genuinely beautiful. And "Same Old Show" is one of the worst pieces of music I've ever heard. Just truly awful. Certainly not consistent.

Favorite tracks: U Can't Stop Me, Don't Give Up Not sure my boring office job was the best setting for this, but I can see how this would go HARD in the club. Loved it when it was weird and rocking and a little angry. More interesting than a lot of the other electronic music we've had on the list, imo.

No. Red Alert is the least offensive song, and that is pretty bad.

The first couple songs from the album kinda sucked, in my opinion. But Jump 'N Shout was good, and Red Alert was good. Same Old Show was equal parts catchy and annoying, it really straddled the line of good and bad music.

This one gets nostalgia points. Some really fun tracks and some awful ones.

1060 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."

This record reeks of the late 90s in every beat. It's loud, crazy, wild, sexy and all over the place. "Red Alert" is a famous club anthem that was played all the time in the beginning 2000s. I can totally see why this kind of music annoys the shit out of the modern listener. However, it's very creative, rich in variety, and incorporates many different musical influences. The songs all feel very unique, but at the same time - many of them are not very dancable. This makes this album feel more like a showcase product, an art piece, that you may like - or you don't.

No thanks. I’ll take my 2007 Alive by Daft Punk instead.

Irgendwie anstrengend aber auch banger 3.5/5

A lot of the negative reviews of this album on here seem to be engaging with the music in bad faith. If you approach this in the same way you would approach a traditional pop album (and "pop" here is used in the general sense to mean any modern popular music), of course you're going to walk away confused. The structure of a dance track is fundamentally different from that of most pop songs. The comparisons to Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim are particularly revealing, as I would argue that these artists more than most dance music producers hewed closer to these pop music structures and thus garnered much more regular airplay and wide appeal. If you actually give yourself over to this album I think you'll find that it, for lack of a better phrase, fucking rips. It's using textures and samples which wouldn't be amiss in a 100 Gecs track. This is squelchy, weird dance music! You never quite know where it's going to take you next, so much so that I find the use of terms like "repetitive" baffling. It seems like every twenty seconds its taking you somewhere completely different. I think this rules.

Couple bouncy house tracks on here but overall not a great one for me

This one didn't excite me but didn't overly bore me either. Could do without some of the sex noises. Some decent beats tho.

I'm not a house music fan so this is tough. It sounds... Okay? But idk

Ranged from pretty decent songs, so weird music you'd hear on repeat in a women's clothing store. Not so sure about this.

This album is cool. Good beats and plenty of em. Not the kind of basement jack I am used to

Pretty decent! Enjoyable dance music.

Loved it then and love it now. Big and clever.

I can't remember the last time I heard a song sample a woman moaning and thinking that it played well. Maybe that's a me problem, or maybe i should be listening to music at sexy raves more often. Either way, some of these songs were good, some weren't. 2.5 rounded down because i was sick of it by the end and my favorite song was the first one.

I don’t think I was in the right mind space for this album. This is clearly club music and I think my experience would differ if I was in the space it was meant for. 2.5 stars, but rounding up as a result.

Interesante pa qué, parece la radio de GTA

5/10 - apart from the two hits from the late 90s, there isn't really of anything of note disappointingly

Electronic music is truthfully a bit of a blind spot of mine, but even I can see this is naff

Oh my god this is hard work, seriously dated

Like walking into a room full of strangers who suddenly become your best mates as soon as the first beat drops. It's not perfect; some tracks might have you checking your watch. But it's hard not to tap your feet through the highs.. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions - Rendez-Vu - Jump n' Shout - Red Alert - Bingo Bango

Another “never heard of ‘em” band. I guess it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, but that’s about it. The first song was so annoying I almost aborted the mission. I’ve heard electronic music done way better.

Cool but electro style isn't really for me. Stand outside are the intro and closer

a couple of tunes I'm familiar with. mostly dance beats with melodic samples and autune vocals. not the worst dance music, but not something I would choose.

90s funk, acid and techno rolled into one greatest hits.

Not great - just didn’t get it at all - a slightly repetitive uninspiring sound

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is a house dance album. I do not care for it. It's repetitive and harsh. There are some strange sound effects that are overall off-putting. I could only get through a few tracks before I had to start skipping. Even that which was less off-putting was still boring for me. Couldn't get through the entire thing. I would not come back to this one.

Got sick of this monaural rave pretty quickly. Big ol' MEH.

I find house/rave/dj music to be painfully repetitive and generally difficult to sit down and listen to. While in 1999 this may have been one of the progenitors of club music as we know it today, it does not standout as noteworthy to an outsider to the genre

Great remix! It had been a while since i'd listened to an electronica album, interesting. My favorite song in this album is: "U Can't Stop Me" My rating for this album is: 2.50

I shouldn't feel the need to hide my laptop from immediate view when revealing my next album. Alas, I did. The music itself isn't really my cup of tea either. Rendez-Vu and Red Alert are two easy standouts, but that's because they sound more commercial than the rest and use some catchier hooks and better singers. Cool guitar- and synth-heavy intro that I did not expect in the slightest. I was anticipating a golden era hip-hop thing, based on the cover and the artist's name. Not a wacky electronic spoof thing resembling Blue (Da Ba Dee). To its credit, Rendez-Vu is actually a really fun listen. Mainly two chords repeated ad infinitum, but all those slowly changing textures make for a heck of a time. Yo Yo, on the other hand, is just barely passable; all the robotic screeching in the background gets a little grating, but then the main vocal hook and especially the bass are definitely worth staying for. Jump 'N Shout again features a solid bass part, a cool gloopy bloop, and a vocal that is extremely easy to want to tune out, but a little harder to actually tune out. U Can't Stop Me? (Actually, I can, with the pause button. And I did once or twice because the vocals were a bit annoying. Again, a pretty nifty bass synth part.) Insert obligatory comment about how interludes are a pretty bad invention unless they provide musical context for the tracks on either side, and generally should be either cut or released as full-length songs. Jaxxalude, Jazzalude, and Sneakalude are all suspect here. (Gemalude gets a passing grade.) Now, Red Alert? Well, I can get into Red Alert. Great lick that holds the entire song together, plus the first appearance of a pretty good singing part. Very cool switch-up in intensity at around 2:50, allowing everything to drop off and pick up again 20 seconds later. Not particularly a fan of Always Be There. It drags on too long without changing much, and most of the sound is upbeat ambient electric, which can only work out for so long. That beep that doesn't quite appear on the same beat each time in Same Old Show really distracts from the rest of the music. Or maybe the rest of the music isn't interesting enough to distract from that damn beeping. (Edit: it took me 6 minutes to realise the song is in 7/4. The beeps are still stupid.) Bingo Bango gets my stamp of approval, if only because the trumpets have just the right level of cheese where I don't have to leave the room and take a cold shower. Also, the piano is genuinely pretty good. The little synth hook in Stop 4 Love gets old pretty quickly, and the quirky alien noises don't help it much. Don't Give Up is a little better – intense noise-synth-rock stuff that you might hear at a particularly experimental nightclub. 2/5 Key tracks: Rendez-Vu, Red Alert

Bliver nok aldrig lige noget for mig

Ikke den første Basement Jaxx plade jeg ville sætte på, men altså, det da meget sjov

At least 1 good song. The rest felt ... Not as polished. 2+

Album is fine. I would recommend anyone who likes this listen to Nuyorican Soul by Masters at Work.

I only know Where's Your Head At for Basement Jaxx, and I suppose they were big enough of an act to have an album on here. Sort of a protogenesis to what EDM would sound like two decades from now, though the bass here is much less sterile on Remedy and also quite wobbly. Starts off a little slow and rough, but Remedy gets cooking shortly after the first two tracks. I always find that late 90s/pre 9/11 electronic music to be an interesting passage of time for the genre, as it slowly was getting more and more mainstream. Basement Jaxx weaved in house/big beat with techno/dance hall/latin/some rock influences in between. While a bit cheesy and maybe a mild victim of the Seinfeld is Unfunny effect for EDM, I liked it.

A little longer than it needs to be, but you can't deny the slaps.

Not for me.

HOLY SHII- 1000/5...pioneering and amazing tracks in all varieties of electronic based sounds

The enshitification of modern music must have begun here. This is straight up irritating.

Son favori : Same old show. Album de house sympa

Insoportable todo el disco, pero unas rolas buenas por ahí

não ouvi toda, mas gostei da música rendez-vu me fez ter vontade de criar uma playlist só de música eletronica