Basement Jaxx Announce Dates, Compilation

According to their website, dance music geniuses Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe are "currently beavering away at a secret location in South London on album number 4." Hopefully they will have beavered away a whole dam of new songs by the time the UK jaunt kicks off.

Jump N' Shout:

11-28 Plymouth, England - Plymouth Pavilions
11-29 Brighton, England - Brighton Centre
11-30 Bournemouth, England - International Centre
12-02 London, England - Wembley Arena
12-05 Birmingham, England - National Indoor Arena
12-06 Newcastle, England - Metro Radio Arena
12-07 Manchester, England - Evening News Arena
12-08 Glasgow, Scotland - S.E.C.C.

In the meantime, we can get our groove on to the second compilation from Ratcliffe and Buxton's Atlantic Jaxx label. Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation- Vol. 2, out already in the UK and due to be released in America in the spring, includes material produced for the label since 2001's Volume 1 as well as several early Basement Jaxx traxx. You might recognize both Gwyn Jay Allen, who is featured on the Jaxx songs "Set Yo Body Free" and "Don't Give Up", and Sharlene Hector, who has performed with the pair on tour.

Where your head's at:

01 Basement Jaxx - "Intro/City People"
02 Basement Jaxx - "U Took My Love"
03 Afro Fiesta - "Venga Chica"
04 Housebreakerz - "Help Myself"
05 Basement Jaxx - "We R Computa"
06 Yen Sung - "Do You"
07 Sharlene Hector - "Holdin' Me"
08 Gwyn Jay Allen - "I Love You Babe"
09 Basement Jaxx - "Betta Daze"
10 Phil Linton - "Don't Stop"
11 Basement Jaxx - "Get Down Get Horny"
12 Bazil X. Plozian - "Berimbal"
13 Basement Jaxx - "Urban Haze"

* Pitchfork Review: Basement Jaxx: The Singles
* Basement Jaxx: http://www.basementjaxx.co.uk/
* Atlantic Jaxx: http://www.atlanticjaxx.co.uk/