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VIBE Kish Kash review
Dec. 10th, 2003 08:30 pmJC gets pretty nice props from the folks at VIBE!
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
There’s dance music for the occasional stepper, and there’s Kish Kash, dance music for people who can twirl through the night and tap out a rhythm on the sidewalk all the way home.
Basement Jaxx’s breakthrough hit “Where’s Your Head At” demonstrates how the British duo rarely does things in half-measures. Their love of disco, salsa, dancehall, hip hop, and punk is intense. Each song here is crammed with all kinds of Kool & the Gang hand claps and Chemical Brothers bass drops.
The list of contributors is as diverse as their musical tastes: ’N Sync’s JC Chasez, alternative soul singer Meshell Ndegeocello, and Goth Queen Siouxie Sioux come together for this funky disc. Chasez runs with compelling vocals on the synthetic soul of “Plug It In,” while Sioux plays cool foil to the Hewlett-Packard beats of “Cish Cash.” But it’s Ndegeocello’s commanding voice that cuts through the technological chaos with supreme grace on the curtain-closing “Feels Like Home.” The company seems mismatched on the same continent together, let alone on the same album. Yet Basement Jaxx works the angles with its creative brand of eclecticism.
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
There’s dance music for the occasional stepper, and there’s Kish Kash, dance music for people who can twirl through the night and tap out a rhythm on the sidewalk all the way home.
Basement Jaxx’s breakthrough hit “Where’s Your Head At” demonstrates how the British duo rarely does things in half-measures. Their love of disco, salsa, dancehall, hip hop, and punk is intense. Each song here is crammed with all kinds of Kool & the Gang hand claps and Chemical Brothers bass drops.
The list of contributors is as diverse as their musical tastes: ’N Sync’s JC Chasez, alternative soul singer Meshell Ndegeocello, and Goth Queen Siouxie Sioux come together for this funky disc. Chasez runs with compelling vocals on the synthetic soul of “Plug It In,” while Sioux plays cool foil to the Hewlett-Packard beats of “Cish Cash.” But it’s Ndegeocello’s commanding voice that cuts through the technological chaos with supreme grace on the curtain-closing “Feels Like Home.” The company seems mismatched on the same continent together, let alone on the same album. Yet Basement Jaxx works the angles with its creative brand of eclecticism.
