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Basement Jaxx, Rooty

Audio CD

Disk ID: 525015

Disk length: 42m 48s (13 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2001

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Romeo 3:35
2. Breakaway 3:22
3. SFM 2:39
4. Kissalude 0:20
5. Jus 1 Kiss 4:24
6. Broken Dreams 3:07
7. I Want U 3:26
8. Get Me Off 4:49
9. Where's Your Head At 4:43
10. Freakalude 0:29
11. Crazy Girl 3:20
12. Do Your Thing 4:41
13. All I Know 3:46

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Review

Since Simon Radcliffe and Felix Burton of Basement Jaxx released the unbelievable Remedy in 1999, house music has experienced a slight identity crisis. But even as trance and Fatboy Slim-style big beat saturate the dance floor, the primal, funky soul of true house that the Jaxx duo know and love clearly reverberates beneath it all. With Rooty, Radcliffe and Burton finish the job they started on Remedy by listening to their instincts, stripping away the gloss, taking some creative risks, and coming up with some of the rawest grooves in recent memory. The first track and single "Romeo" doesn't waste any time, parlaying an irresistible hook and a relentlessly up vibe into the most danceable three and a half minutes of 2001. Frankie Knuckles-era Chicago house and War's deep Latin funk are audible throughout, along with an adventurous production sense; "SFM" packs in a wild kaleidoscope of howls and cross-rhythms while slinking along and rubbing itself on the furniture like a cat in heat. Still, given the level of creative license at work here, the record sometimes misses the mark. Songs like "I Want U" reach for progressive funk, but forget the low bass end that can give a silly, airy song some gravity. But more often that not, the band's decision to eschew beats in favor of dirtier, sexier means of rhythmic expressions pays off. Witness the fat bass line at work in "Get Me Off," as a breathy tease of a lead vocal turns into an outright come-on. Somehow both relentlessly modern and a throwback to simpler, funkier times, Rooty is an effective way to jog the memory should you have forgotten the egg that came before the trance chicken. --Matthew Cooke

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 42m 48s

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 42m 50s (+0m 2s)

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 43m 37s (+0m 49s)

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 43m 41s (+0m 53s)

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 41m 52s (-1m 4s)

Rooty

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 39m 1s (-4m 13s)

Rooty

Tracks: 2 (-11 tracks), Disk length: 8m 54s (-34m 6s)

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