ROOTY

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Jaaroverzichten 2005". Ultratop. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018 . Retrieved 13 September 2020. New Releases – For Week Starting June 4, 2001: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 2 June 2001. p.23 . Retrieved 14 August 2021.

The colourful polyphonic sounds of Basement Jaxx's second album made them one of the biggest dance music groups of the 2000s. In contrast to the superstar claims, the duo’s origins are rather humble and ordinary. Buxton grew up in the countryside. His father, a vicar who had designs on his son joining the armed forces or becoming an engineer, had a mantra for his son that went ‘Don’t reach for the stars, just do something honest and real.’ Their 2005 greatest-hits album, The Singles, arrived with two new songs—one of which, “Oh My Gosh,” reached No. 8 in the UK, giving Basement Jaxx their fifth Top 10 single.PopMatters staff(s) (19 December 2005). "Best Reissues of 2005". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016 . Retrieved 12 June 2016. Rooty was released on 25 June 2001. Further singles released from the album were "Jus 1 Kiss", on 24 September, "Where's Your Head At", on 26 November, "Get Me Off", on 17 June 2002, and "Do Your Thing" in Australia only, on 2 December 2003. Pitchfork Staff (2 October 2009). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 29 April 2023. Their rhythms drew from hyperventilating bump-and-grind 2-step ("Romeo")...

Featuring everyone from goth icon Siouxsie Sioux to grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal, the duo’s third album, 2003’s Kish Kash, reached a career-best No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The LP earned Basement Jaxx a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Albums turning 20 years old in 2021". Official Charts Company. 29 December 2020 . Retrieved 22 September 2023. Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton started Basement Jaxx as a club night in Brixton, South London, in 1994. Ratcliffe had previously recorded under the names Tic Tac Toe and Helicopter, while Buxton had worked as a house DJ throughout London. Basement Jaxx — Red Alert". The Record. Archived from the original on 23 March 2006 . Retrieved 13 June 2016.

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Thestylusdecade.com". thestylusdecade.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011 . Retrieved 20 November 2011. Their 2001 sophomore album, Rooty, spawned two more Top 10 UK hits: “Romeo” and the rowdy “Where’s Your Head At,” which samples a pair of songs by UK New Wave hero Gary Numan. Both went Top 5 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs in the US. a b "Jaxx replace Kylie at Glastonbury". BBC News. 6 June 2005. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016 . Retrieved 13 July 2016. Rooty’, Basement Jaxx’s second album, was the moment when the London duo conquered pop in the name of UK house music; the apex of the band’s gleefully magpie approach to musical inspiration, and the inexorable conclusion of the pop smarts hinted at on their debut ‘Remedy’. Felix Buxton – mixing, production, vocals on "Breakaway", "Jus 1 Kiss", "Crazy Girl" and "All I Know"

Romeo (US 12-inch promo vinyl disc). Basement Jaxx. Astralwerks. 2001. ASW 69982-1. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Buxton told The Independent in 2003, “When I first met Simon I hated all UK club music. The quality had gone down because it was in a progressive cocaine stage. People wanted it harder with no melody or rhythm.” So, he and Ratcliffe “had the unfashionable idea of making deep spiritual American-sounding underground house music,” something that would enrich the soul, as he explained to The Mirror in 2009. The song additionally experienced success in mainland Europe and New Zealand. In the latter region, it debuted at number 41 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, then rose to number nine eight weeks later, staying in the charts for 14 weeks in total. [25] It also reached the top 10 in Norway, debuting and peaking at number nine on the Norwegian Singles Chart; [26] however, the song had less success in other European countries. It peaked at number 74 in France and number 82 in the Netherlands, [27] [28] but it did manage to reach the top 50 in Sweden—peaking at number 41—and the top 20 in Denmark—peaking at number 20. [29] [30] Music video [ edit ] Andy Kellman from AllMusic gave the album a very positive review, calling it "a timely and nearly faultless stop-gap compilation." [2]In 2018, the House & Garage Orchestra together with Kele Le Roc recorded an orchestral version of the song for the UK garage covers album Garage Classics. You can hear the group’s sheer studio confidence on ‘Rooty’, after the success of their debut album showed them that house music could happily co-exist with 2-step, ska and Latin guitars. “When we made the first album, we were questioning every part of the process,” Buxton told Billboard at the time. “This time, we did less questioning. We were confident with who we are and what we wanted to express musically.”

Reynolds, Simon (August 2001). "Get Ur Freak On". Spin. Vol.17, no.8. pp.127–28 . Retrieved 16 March 2016. Past ‘apes’ have included members of Vampire Weekend, The Streets’ Mike Skinner and, at the 2009 Wireless Festival in London, Prince Harry. With their freewheeling, genre-flipping approach to house music, British duo Basement Jaxx became one of the biggest names in electronic music in the late ’90s and early 2000s.

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