Search - Basement Jaxx :: Kish Kash

All over the place and still has structure

Cinema4 | LA CA | 02/21/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I have always loves and respected Basement Jaxx for their continuing effort not to plug themselves into one sound. This album, Kish Kash is no acceptation. This album has a much stronger R&B/ Hip-Hop concentration than their deep house grooves of the past. Yet even with how chaotic the songs are, like a lot of jazz, they are amazingly held together and overly addictive.



No one will ever figure this band out, but why should we when they make amazing music like this!?"

Kashing In

Dionne A. Wood | Parma Heights, OH USA | 07/12/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I must have been asleep at the wheel during the last quarter of 2003 music-wise, since I completely missed this album. Too bad for me, as this thing probably dropped like a bomb in the clubs. Come to think of it, I wasn't going out much then either, so I was indeed out of the loop entirely.



At any rate, if you don't own this one, run out right now and buy it! Go on! I'll wait... You can probably get it used for 1/2 the price now too, since this recommendation is so late in arriving.



The list of guest vocalists is as long as the track listing, but notable are:



-Meshell Ndegeocello (2 tracks)

-Siouxsie Sioux (where's she been since I was in high school?)

-Lisa Kekaula from BellRays

-J.C. Chasez from N'Sync (yeah, I know, but he's really good on this - I didn't even know it was him)



I wouldn't file this one under electronica exactly, but I'm not sure where else to put it. Some of it is definitely electronica in nature, but several tracks are decidedly funk, and some others defy classification at all. Yet somehow, all of these tracks work together as an album. I didn't skip anything, and I was kind of sad when the last track played out."