Basement Jaxx: Leeds University
Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 10 December 2003
THE MOOD OF CRISIS in dance music won't have been helped by this week's news that ecstasy use is in decline. For dance music's acts — who have long indirectly benefited from the music's connection with drug-induced euphoria — the news must have felt like a nation of gardeners being told there was no more fertiliser. However, with three albums behind them — dance music's qualification for a telegram from the Queen — Brixton duo Basement Jaxx belie an outbreak of sobriety and their own veteran status to throw a party that could carry on all night without chemical assistance.
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