i’m still in country victoria, and still communicating with you via time delay.

nearly everything basement jaxx touches turns to gold. i am a big admirer of their micro-production techniques, and how they really just seem to continue to nurture their own sound without too much influence from whats going on in the greater dance/techno world. and they must be like billionaires. with this lady sovereign track, they’ve taken a track i already liked and gotten more out of it (as they often do). they’ve left my favourite bit in there - the guitar jangles - and removed everything else bar the words, throwing in the obligatory kitchen-sink-ful of unexpected percussion sounds, the usual indiscriminate yelling and weird vocal processing that i associate with jaxx. bring on summer.

Lady Sovereign - Hoodie (Basement Jaxx remix) (6.2 MB)