Basement Jaxx find the Remedy

May 1999: Number 37 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicAfter six years of wildly eclectic parties in Brixton basements, Basement Jaxx finally unleashed their debut album, Remedy – a nonchalant nose-thumbing to tiresome dance music purism. Encouraged by New York house DJs such as Masters At Work's Louie Vega, Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton adulterated their breathless house and garage bangers with liberal doses of other fun stuff – a ragga vocal here, a two-tone...

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