Basement Jaxx & Dizzee Rascal lead off with
Author: Diego Pablos
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
"Drop dead single, "Lucky Star" is with wiggy UK rapper Dizzee Rascal hooting and sputtering rhymes over a sped-up belly-dance groove." - Spin (Dec 03)
The first single 'Lucky Star' (December 2nd) off their ground breaking third LP Kish Kash, hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "their richest and most fervent music the Jaxx have ever made" and by Details that "the Jaxx fuzz the lines between dance and rock, turning out the album of their career", sees the Jaxx in cahoots with the Mercury Music Prize winning Dizzee Rascal, a harsh tag team assault leaping straight from the underground and into the charts.
In its edit form the immediate and spiky attack crams what sounds like 3 choruses into the throng along with at least a handful of head lingering hum-lines. Extended over five and a half minutes it unravels more gently, only to hit harder when it does let loose.
Dillinja takes this theme and runs with it, filling the intro with peaks until the suspense splits into speaker-flatulating abandon. This in peak time, dirty jungle to rip the hell out of any club. The Jaxx Klub version lays before you in a chi-town boompty style until Dizzee manhandles it into a rougher direction with astonishing dancefloor abandon the result.
The only thing to make your mind up over here is whether to jump, shake it or scream. The Jaxx Dub delivers a wave of distorted bass over which the MC becomes a playground-esque line caller while an array of yelps/90, horns and countless FX twitch their way into your head. All 5 remixes will be sure to make your head spin with dizzeeness.
Kish Kash out now on Astralwerks.
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