Basement Jaxx, on the whole, I can take or leave. But they have pulled it off on some occasions, this song being one of them. Same Old Show, from their 1999 debut album Remedy, samples the vocal phrase 'it's just the same old show' from the Selecter's On My Radio and is great for bouncing around the kitchen to.
Same Old Show
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What a wonderful series this week Adam. It was great pleasure to me listening to Ska/2-tone again.
I must have heard this at some point in the last 15 years, but I'll be blowed if I remember doing so. It's great. I particularly like the way that the Selecter sample is there, submerged, very early on, before pushing its way to the front of the mix later in the tune.
I love this gif, I think it comes from an old video I have somewhere about the story of Jamaican Ska in the 50's/60's. Some great exerpts from concerts in it, especially Jimmy Cliff doing 'King of Kings' in Kingston in '62, backed by The Skatallites ...
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