Basement Jaxx Launch Kish Kash

Entertainment Weekly, Oct 03, A- "The richest and most fervent music the Jaxx have ever made."

New York Times, Oct 03 "it's the duo's best and boldest disc so far. The producers, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, have created the year's wildest party album, perfecting the duo's unruly approach."

Time Out NY, Sept 03 "Kish Kash finds them taking the genre into even less expected territory"

New York Magazine, Sept 03 "somewhere between the Commodores and D.J. Shadow"

Interview Magazine, Sept 03 "an even bigger stylistic smorgasbord than 'Rooty'. Their ambition pays off."

Blender, Oct 03 * * * * "their most violently inventive yet"

Details, Nov 03 * * * * 1/2 "The Jaxx fuzz the lines between dance and rock, turning out the album of their career"

Ripping up the rule book once again, Basement Jaxx return with their third album Kish Kash. Taking in punk, funk, electro and soul, the Jaxx have produced an astoundingly intense yet 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's magpie-like record collections.

The track "Lucky Star" sees the Jaxx in cahoots with the UK underground's boy 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" - coming soon to a radio station near you!

Basement Jaxx have returned to give musical definitions and genre typecasting 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 classification.

Now, when all others are treading creative water, Kish Kash dives in at the deep end. Ready for the future- Look forward or be left behind.
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