Basement Jaxx - Rooty
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Track List: Rooty
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- RomeoDownload & Buy
- BreakawayDownload & Buy
- SFMDownload & Buy
- KissaludeDownload & Buy
- Jus 1 KissDownload & Buy
- Broken DreamsDownload & Buy
- I Want UDownload & Buy
- Get Me OffDownload & Buy
- Where's Your Head AtDownload & Buy
- FreakaludeDownload & Buy
- Crazy GirlDownload & Buy
- Do Your ThingDownload & Buy
- All I KnowDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Rooty
- Release Date:
- 06/26/2001
- Label:
- Astralwerks
- UPC:
- 724381042328
User Reviews: Rooty
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Yeah baby!
, April 30, 2002Reviewer: Satan - See all Satan's reviewsJust great. Romeo featuring Kele Le Roc is one of the strongest songs on the album, as is Where's Your Head At? There are great songs that were released that no doubt people have heard, which are backed up by songs that weren't released but are great all the same. A bit cheeky calling the kissalude and freakalude songs as they're 20 and 29 seconds long respectively, but they're still great all the same. Just brilliant. Add it to your collection yesterday, if not sooner. -
Motherfunkers
, October 23, 2001Reviewer: silentbob2k2 - See all silentbob2k2's reviewsDamn fine album. Awesome dance music that never stops being enjoyable, has a wide range of styles, & lays down some sweet beats. It's really a crime not to put at least one of these songs on at a party. The only gripe I have is that the actual guys don't sing enough of their own songs. Standout tracks: "Romeo", "Where's Your Head At", & "SFM". Why are you still reading this? Go buy this album! Now! (Just don't hurt anybody rushing away from the computer.)
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Pro Reviews: Rooty
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Sophomore album blues from a pair of producers who just want to party all night and make a few tracks during the day? Not a chance. Two years of globe-trotting as house superstars fortunately hasn't dulled the keen blade of Basement Jaxx's production style. So raw you can't believe they spent over an hour per track, so perfect you're glad they stopped noodling about long before most producers would, and so poppy they should get picked up by commercial radio in America as well as the rest of the world, Rooty is the second straight triumph from a pair of producer/DJs who look set to carry the torch for dancefloor electronica in the years to come. Titled after the duo's just-recently-closed club-night, this is a true party album -- shot through with no-attention-span tangents, bridges, and interrupted samples, nowhere better than on the psychedelic soul of "Broken Dreams," with its Tijuana Brass horns and Middle Eastern flute. Though it's missing the genre-spanning flair and red-line energy that made 1999's Remedy the best dance album of the '90s, Rooty comes very close, with a similar emphasis on swinging rhythms and slapping percussion. It's much funkier than Remedy, much closer to commercial pop, and much more sensuous, with several tracks of moaning, juiced-up funk from the Prince playbook. The opener "Romeo" is groovy and luscious enough to be the next single from Destiny's Child (with a tad more vocal histrionics), and almost every track features vocalists who sound less like professional singers (or flavor-of-the-month robots) and more like they've been tapped as finalists at a posh karaoke bar. (A few of those female-sounding vocalists are actually the Jaxx themselves, altered slightly.) Add a little filtered disco ("Jus 1 Kiss"), a track of rowdy New York house (the Gary Numan-sampling "Where's Your Head At," with background shouting from Erick Morillo and Junior Sanchez), bleepy acid-house ("Crazy Girl"), and some P-Funked-up house ("Breakaway") and the result is a stunning, diverse album that's not only an immediate winner but a great album down the line as well. You can take the boys out of Brixton, but you just can't take Brixton out of the boys. - John Bush, All Music Guide |
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The production duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton released several of Britain's most respected and enjoyable progressive house anthems of the '90s from their base in South London. Before they met (at a Thames riverboat party organized by Buxton)...Full Basement Jaxx Biography
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