Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest
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| Live album with studio tracks by Basement Jaxx and Metropole Orkest | ||||||||||||||
| Released | July 11, 2011 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | November 3-5, 2010 and February 4, 2011 |
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| Length | 62:44 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic Jaxx | |||||||||||||
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| Metacritic | (70/100) |
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Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest is a collaborative album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx and Dutch orchestra Metropole Orkest. The album features of older Basement Jaxx tracks rearranged for an orchestra with participated vocals from Vula Malinga, Sharlene Hector, Brendan Reilly, Oli Savill and Lisa Kekaula.
The album is a combination of recordings from that concert along with studio recordings.
The tracks have been reworked by Felix Buxton and conductor Jules Buckley. It took 18 months in the making.
Buckley loosely-formed form the idea of re-interpreting the duo's back catalogue for live performance, but where concert programmes subsequently developed, so too did studio recordings. Buxton recalls:
"Jules’ proposal sounded cool and we were like, ‘why not?’. But it was a pretty open-ended request so there was ample opportunity to thrash out the creative details and make sure the world of Basement Jaxx fit well in this new context. We were adamant about it not being a gimmick; I’ve seen plenty of pop bands marry their dance beats or breaks with classical on a superficial level and the results have sounded a bit damp, a bit softcore. Our project needed to be genuine, to stand up..."
The duo had previously experienced working with an orchestra by collaborating with the 16-piece London Session Orchestra for the song "Good Luck" in 2003. A way of reimagining Basement Jaxx’s music "in a completely different way," Buxton said.
The album's recording took place at Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands on February 4, 2011. They were joined by Metropole Orkest which includes a 60-piece orchestra and a 20-voice choir. Participated by four vocalists, Vula Malinga, Sharlene Hector, Brendan Reilly and Lisa Kekaula.
"I could see the excited glint in Felix’s eye when we first started scoring but there remained a real sense of ‘where are we taking all this? and ‘how will this end up’?," Buckley said. They recorded a number of versions of certain tracks. Buckley said the unpredictability of the process was "a great big test bed of a thing" that made the final results more "powerful" and "authentic."
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