PEOPLE test-drive cars. Why shouldn't they test-drive music? That's what Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe -- a k a Basement Jaxx -- have been doing for the last year, entertaining lucky South ...

The bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice set atop the DJ high-rise certainly was misleading. Spotted as the clock struck midnight and Basement Jaxx began their 140-minute DJ set at Axis, the chilled ...

At the turn of the century, Basement Jaxx’s Remedy perfectly married deranged big-beat with life-affirming soul and house. Their strongest work - Red Alert, and the Gary Numan-sampling Where’s Your ...

Public Works Presents: legendary DJ duo BASEMENT JAXX! funktion one sound. More TBA. Get presales while you can. The production duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton released several of Britain’s ...

I’ve always had a tough time listening to more than two or three Basement Jaxx tracks in a row. The British duo’s take on dance music is just too messy and ADD; they’re not content to ride one beat or ...

If this past summer had a dance soundtrack, it was "Rooty," an album so exhilarating it all but dared listeners to emulate Fred Astaire's dance across the ceiling in "Royal Wedding." This euphoric CD ...

When people criticize dance music for sounding interchangeable, there's sadly a whole lot of truth to the accusation. Racism and homophobia certainly played a small part in the sort-of death of disco, ...

Following a series of EPs in the mid-Nineties, British producers Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe tried to insert a spirit of inventiveness into an ailing house music scene with Basement Jaxx’s 1999 ...

Musicians whose debut albums succeed almost always face a backlash with their sophomore efforts–particularly if they don’t stick to the formula that worked the first time around. Most of the print ...

Rooty, Basement Jaxx's second album, takes its name from an underground club that the dance-music duo founded in its none-too-prosperous London district of Brixton. That goes a long way toward ...