Featuring everyone from goth icon Siouxsie Sioux to grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal, the duo’s third album, 2003’s Kish Kash, reached a career-best No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The LP earned Basement Jaxx a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Romeo" debuted at number six on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's third top 10 hit in their native country. [18] It also topped the UK Dance and UK Indie charts. [19] [20] At the end of 2001, it was ranked at number 98 on the UK year-end chart. [21] In Ireland, the single peaked at number 17 on the Irish Singles Chart. [22] The song was released in North America, where it peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and number 10 on the Canadian Singles Chart. [23] [24] This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. ( June 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) It's a collection of all our popular songs really, a collection where people could get all the main songs that they liked. It seemed like a good idea to put it out now because a lot of people were coming to our shows and didn't really know that a song like " Romeo" was by the same people who did " Where's Your Head At". Our music [across the years] is quite different so it has probably taken people a while to realise that it's all by the same band. So yeah, that was why really. It could be a collection for people who'd only just found out about us, or seen a live show and wanted to get our music. [1] The album's single, the creepily Janet-esque "Romeo," commences the program on a bitter note. Featured diva Kele Le Roc's mindless lyrics spill over the predictable, shallow melodies, bland beats and clichéd basslines. "Breakaway," however, relieves the tedium with a foray into the darker facets of funk. Treacherous squelches murmur beneath industrial percussion and old-school synths, while quirky bleeps and bloops creep in wherever the music pauses. The song's unintelligent vocals are also unobtrusive enough that they don't ruin the rest of the song.

PopMatters staff(s) (19 December 2005). "Best Reissues of 2005". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016 . Retrieved 12 June 2016. Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton started Basement Jaxx as a club night in Brixton, South London, in 1994. Ratcliffe had previously recorded under the names Tic Tac Toe and Helicopter, while Buxton had worked as a house DJ throughout London. Perez, Arturo. "Top 10 Albums of 2001". Kludge. Archived from the original on 22 July 2004 . Retrieved 25 November 2015. Romeo (US maxi-single liner notes). Basement Jaxx. Astralwerks. 2001. ASW38783-2, 7243 838783 2 1. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) With their freewheeling, genre-flipping approach to house music, British duo Basement Jaxx became one of the biggest names in electronic music in the late ’90s and early 2000s.The 100 best Glastonbury performances ever". Archived from the original on 19 August 2018 . Retrieved 5 April 2018. But retro-fetishism has its limits. Some trends aren't worth reviving; others have not yet passed far enough from memory to qualify as fair game. Fresh wounds are sensitive, and a fresh faux pas is strictly off limits. Brixton's Basement Jaxx, venerated purveyors of acid-tinged booty house beats, toe the line between kitsch and cheese, and all too often skirt across it. Simon Ratcliffe, a Uni drop-out who lived in a squat making (some) money from installing hi-fi equipment, met Buxton at a pub in the early '90s. They immediately bonded over a shared love of the New York and Chicago house scene.

Rooty was released on 25 June 2001. Further singles released from the album were "Jus 1 Kiss", on 24 September, "Where's Your Head At", on 26 November, "Get Me Off", on 17 June 2002, and "Do Your Thing" in Australia only, on 2 December 2003. Basement Jaxx: Rooty". Billboard. 7 July 2001. Archived from the original on 3 July 2001 . Retrieved 12 August 2012. Past ‘apes’ have included members of Vampire Weekend, The Streets’ Mike Skinner and, at the 2009 Wireless Festival in London, Prince Harry.Rest of the Best of the Aughts: Albums & Singles (#101 – 250) – The House Next Door – Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine. 7 February 2010. Despite heavy rainfall during the year's festival, the duo's performance was well received. [10] They also included a carnival version of Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" in their set. Albums turning 20 years old in 2021". Official Charts Company. 29 December 2020 . Retrieved 22 September 2023.

Their 2001 sophomore album, Rooty, spawned two more Top 10 UK hits: “Romeo” and the rowdy “Where’s Your Head At,” which samples a pair of songs by UK New Wave hero Gary Numan. Both went Top 5 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs in the US.New Releases – For Week Starting June 4, 2001: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 2 June 2001. p.23 . Retrieved 14 August 2021. PopMatters ranked the album the 19th-best reissue of 2005. [6] Promotion [ edit ] Live 2006 Tour by Basement Jaxx