Basement Jaxx 'Kish Kash'

Released: end of October on Astralwerks

Ripping up the rule book once again, Basement Jaxx return with their third album Kish Kash. With Remedy and Rooty they famously "fucked house music up the arse". Now they're going to fuck with your heads. Taking in punk, funk electro and northern soul the Jaxx have produced an astoundingly intense, ugly and beautiful ride from start to finish.

Filching from all the disparate strands of music's past to create something spellbindingly new, this album sees a handpicked band of collaborators drawn from across the musical spectrum and Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe magpie like-record collections. The track, 'Lucky Star' sees the Jaxx in cahoots with the UK underground'sboy in the corner Dizzee Rascal, a harsh tagteam assault leaping straight from the underground and into the charts. Other collaborations include legendary South London punk pioneer Siouxsie Sioux on electropunk thrashout 'Cish Cash'; Lisa Kekaula from LA rock and soul shakermakers the Bellrays belting out 'Good Luck', the kind of crazed stomper you'd end up with if Grooverider played at the Wigan Casino; nu soul diva Meshell Ndegeocello getting sassy on p-funked dancefloor mover 'Right Here's The Spot' and N*Sync asylum seeker JC Chasez adding some falsetto to the unhinged r&b sex-up meets rave anthem that is
'Plug It In'.

Basement Jaxx have returned to give dance music a much needed slap in the chops. Taking 'Where's Your Head At' as the blue print and their 'punk garage' fusion to its logical endgame Felix & Simon have produced an album that is above and beyond genre classification. Now, when all around are treading creative water, 'Kish Kash' dives in at the deep end. Ready for the future-
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