This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
These days, it seems every electronica act wants to make art. Well, Basement Jaxx just want to make you move your body.
Remedy is the perfect, um, remedy for the recent trend towards boring, overblown techno: An hour of jubilantly funky house jams that have all the exuberant immediacy of improvisation. Of course, they’re not spontaneous — the boombastic rhythms, instrumental interplay, inventive samples and goofy vocals all make it very clear these new Jaxx swingers have spent just as much time in their bedrooms with their record collections as The Chemical Brothers. The difference is, they make it sound like they never left the party. And that’s an art all to itself.
