“It blew me away, and I felt things that I hadn't felt before. And also, more than that, I felt like I was listening to something I'd never listened to before”: How PinkPantheress’s meteoric rise has been aided and abetted by Basement Jaxx

PinkPantheress and Basement Jaxx.

Cast your mind back a few years and it would have been hard to imagine that, by the mid-’20s, one of the more fashionable sounds to reference in pop music would be that of British dance music duo Basement Jaxx (Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe).

And yet here we are. Jaxx references are scattered all over Brits Producer of the Year PinkPantheress’s 2025 mixtape, Fancy That, and their influence can be heard elsewhere, too. It’s hard to imagine that Confidence Man and Jade weren’t aware of the duo’s 2005 hit Oh My Gosh when they wrote and recorded 2025 single Gossip, for example.