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Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe met over an obscure Masters At Work record in Brixton, south London in 1994. Choosing the name Basement Jaxx (Simon had a studio in a basement and the music jacked), their initial ambitions were humble: to put on great parties and produce records which emulated their heroes on the US house scene.

The Atlantic Jaxx compilation was informed by soul, jazz, reggae, house and samba but also the more raucous British traditions of punk and rave. In Armand Van Heldens charming assessment, they took house music and "fucked it up the ass Aspiring to be no one other than their leftfield selves its hard not to let the crunked up jaxx tones get you shifting