Basement Jaxx Ditch Chemicals for Coldplay

Mainstream media darlings Basement Jaxx continued to distance themselves even further away from club culture this week, telling NME they're fed up with not being treated as serious artists.

"What's annoying is that we're always told we're an electronic dance band, that doesn't happen with Radiohead of Coldplay," vicar's son Felix Buxton whined.

"They're artists and musicians, they don't have to explain."

Buxton started his mission to embrace mainstream pop this September, gleefully telling indie rock magazine Bang he considered dance music to be dead.

"We used to be very conscious of our contemporaries- Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, Armand Van Helden," he said.

"And while we were making this album we just started to feel like we're not part of anything any more. This whole world has just disappeared."
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