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 ...

"Check your attitude at the door, and throw your coat on the floor." This was Basement Jaxx's house motto through the 1990s, from their first night in the back of a rundown Mexican restaurant under a ...

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 ...

Noisy as club music can be, it often expects silence in return. The beats are the thing, which is why you can't belt out Underworld tunes in the shower. But Basement Jaxx, a new duo from the clubs of ...

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 ...

Barefoot dancers orbit the DJ booth at Nikki Beach Club, their legs white with sand. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, the British duo known as Basement Jaxx, plunge listeners into the wobbly bounce ...