Product Description

This collection brings together all the singles released byBrixton based house duo Basement Jaxx. The album showcases the duo's unique mix of house, funk, punk, and reggae and includes the top ten hits 'Where's Your Head At', 'Red Alert','Rendez-Vu', and 'Romeo'.

Track Listing

1. Red Alert
2. Good Luck
3. Romeo
4. Oh My Gosh
5. Bingo Bango
6. Where’s Your Head At
7. Rendez-Vu
8. Jump N’ Shout
9. Lucky Star
10. Plug It In
11. U Don’t Know Me
12. Do Your Thing
13. Jus 1 Kiss
14. Flylife
15. Samba Magic

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2509 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Brixton's pride, mishmash dance/house/electronica duo Basement Jaxx have prolifically delivered killer tracks ever since "Samba Magic" was first cut to vinyl. Now, some years on, it's time for a comprehensive recap of the Jaxx' mindblowing A-sides. All fifteen singles are here, scrambled by the Jaxx into the optimum track order (who really cares about chronology?), and there isn't a dud among them. Selecting highlights is a futile task--just stick the disc on and let your senses be guided from the hypnotic "Red Alert" through the awesome "Where's Your Head At" and beyond "Do Your Thing"'s reinvention of dancehall swing. It's quite a trip.

For those who have followed Basement Jaxx from Remedy through Rooty to Kish Kash, there's no doubt that the duo are consistent--weak album tracks are almost non-existent. Cull the lead tracks from that trinity of essential LPs and you have a 'best of' well worthy of its role, a constant high that is about as exhilarating as modern uptempo music gets. These are truly essential recordings.--Jonathan Davies

Customer Reviews

A nice collection of club classics by The Jaxx....
Brilliant collection with most for their hits (up to mid 2007) on it, and containing lots of bits that have been used in adverts and on the TV shows such as 'Dancing with the Star's etc'.
In addition, it contains some excellent 'Get up and go' music for those long dark winter mornings when you need to get out of bed and go to work: You will be dancing while you make the toast with this lot on your CD player! Basically, a must have for every CD collection.

One outstanding traxx
This is an astonishingly varied collection of music, but for me, there is just one excellent track: #2, 'Good Luck', which the band performed for the BBC at a New Year's Eve TV programme some time back. It's a shame the recording is so murky, but it is a wonderful arrangement, and even the session violinists sounded like they were having a ball.

Much better than I expected
I'd borrowed an Basement Jaxx CD (Remedy) off a friend previously and was a little dissapointed. It was wonderously experimental, but not necessarily very listenable. This singles collection is a whole different ball-game, though. The first CD is just end to end brilliant tracks - there probably isn't a duffer on there, and while there's a fair bit of experimental stuff in there, it all works an absolute treat. The second CD is perhaps a little less outstanding, but still has some great stuff on it. If you've heard a few of their singles and liked them, then I reckon you'll like this a whole lot, and if you're into some-what off the wall dance music, then you'll be well at home. For the money, it's an absolute bargain.