Basement Jaxx
Kish Kash

THE REVIEW

In today's music, if you want to move forward, you have to progress, or, to put it more bluntly, adapt to what's "happening in your environment." This can be good or bad, depending on how you do it.

For those already familiar with B.Jaxx, this new album won't be a total upheaval, but there's been quite a change: and in my opinion, it's positive. Riding the wave of Mouse On Mars, BuckFunk3000, R.Hawtin (aka Plastikman), even the Brixton duo has taken a nice turn towards the new London sound, producing a varied album, both in terms of base and vocals. Sure, it retains the "transporting joy" background of the first two works, but with significantly more intertwined samples, and with tracks that span different themes.

The final result is an album that's definitely in step with the times of the electronic scene, distancing itself from the uncomfortable label of a "House" group that had previously been attached to them, and leaning more towards ElectroDrum&Bass with that typical "basement" verve, without, however, exaggerating the genre (see A.Twin/Squarepusher).

Recommended for those fed up with the usual "Tunz-Tunz Piripiri" that our local electronic artists feed us; let's call it "Sunday morning" electronics. Score 4 because in the single they included a rapper from their neighborhood who is, to put it mildly, pathetic (I am VERY DEMANDING about rap), and consequently, it's the worst track on the album...but now rap sells, so...