Basement Jaxx: Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest – review

(Atlantic Jaxx)As a teenager, Basement Jaxx's Felix Buxton was forbidden by his vicar father from watching Top of the Pops, and instead had to sing in the church choir and take violin lessons. A career making rambunctious house music could have been seen partly as rebellion – and as if to prove that we all become our parents in the end, Buxton (with fellow Jaxx Simon Ratcliffe) has returned to his roots by rescoring a selection of Basement Jaxx cuts for orchestra. It is a worthy curio: there...

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