At the turn of the century, Basement Jaxx’s Remedy perfectly married deranged big-beat with life-affirming soul and house. Their strongest work - Red Alert, and the Gary Numan-sampling Where’s Your Head At? in 2001, would soon become modern dance classics.
They bagged a Grammy in 2004 for their third album, Kish Kash. A year later, they headlined Glastonbury (filling in for Kylie Minogue), and brought their unique brand of colourful, sample-heavy electronic music to a global audience.
With a lifelong passion for tech, gear and the art of music production, it was inevitable that throughout the 2000s and 2010s, the duo behind the bangers - Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton - became regular interviewees in our (now sadly closed) magazines, Computer Music and Future Music.
One such conversation, which stems from a Computer Music issue from 2013, was particularly insightful.
Previously unpublished to the web, our recent trawl through our archives led us to re-read this fascinating chat, in which Jaxx’s Simon Ratcliffe had some interesting reminisces about working with Yoko Ono on their 2009 psychedelic cut, Day of the Sunflowers.
