"Let's go home with me!"

Our British duet Basement Jaxx is most known for the grotesque clip for the song “ Take Mee Back to YouR House” , in which the eastern Slavs habitually thumping moonshine, the hobal are dancing and the strings of huge balalaikas under the portraits of Lenin and Stalin are torn. At the end of the clip into an endless hut, where all this is happening, a snow-capped tank crashes, a lunolic bark-ears and bravely mints a lyrical heroine in an embroidered shirt crashes from there: “Let's go home with me!”

In 2006, when this clip became a YouTube meme, all this pseudo -Slavic vapouka from the Basement Jaxx looked characteristic of the Brikston duet with dancing, the carnival fun, the continuation of their Bollywood hit “ Romeo” . Now, when in Russia many are again dancing gopak under the portraits of Lenin and Stalin, the air was in the air with the damp of the hut, the border territories of Russia and Ukraine are plowing non-curtain and untreated tanks, and in the news chronicle they show coal, less jovial and charming, this clip is no longer funny. He looks like a deadly accurate prediction about the fate of the post -Soviet states - if you rephrase a well -known saying, it is that you can take out a girl (Ukraine, Russia) from the hut, but one cannot withdraw the hut from the girl.

We live in a world predicted by Basement Jaxx. House - on the radio, tanks - on telly, chaos - in the heads.

Of course, Felix Bakston and Simon Ratcliffe from Basement Jaxx did not suggest that their cheerful song (by the way, on the sound of Bango, and not balalaika) would acquire such a depth of meanings. For them, “ Take Me Back to Your House” meant completely different. “ House” in the Basement Jaxx dictionary is primarily a house, dance music, invented in the late 1980s in the USA, brought up on dance floor not always legal clubs of Chicago and New York, and then London. At the beginning of the zero Basement Jaxx, the DAFT Punk made a powerful injection of house-music, their variegated albums “ Remedy” and “ Rooty” , where all the musical multi-traffic of multi-traffic briconstral-Ragga, Latino and Souls, unexpectedly, unexpectedly, was supposed to be a powerful albums. They predicted the direction along which the whole clumsy international show-biz-from Madonna (she was excusable-she was present in New York clubs at the birth of House) to Sofia Rotaru ( but no one expected this ). Now, in 2014, we can safely say that we live in a world predicted by Basement Jaxx : House-on radio, tanks-on telly, chaos-in the heads.

Participants in Basement JAXX see that the world has made a wheel under their electronic barley, but it cannot be said that they are completely delighted with what is happening. “We recently performed at the Festival in the States,” Felix Bakston just told the Guardian newspaper, “and it was very similar to Britain in 1988. The current children went deep into the house. Everything was as many years ago - there are few clothes on dancing and a lot of colors on the body, beads and flowers. The only difference is that now everything is plastic. Beads, flowers and ... music. ”

The Junto , released after the almost five-year pause, is a Demarch of protest announced by Basement Jaxx , against plastic dance music and a masses of the weavers , which struck pop culture. "I came to Party , you came to Party , what is the news, in fact?" -They ask a rhetorical question on “ Junto” and give 13 virtually produced tracks, in which carousel juggling rhythms and sounds occurs. The thought of British producers is that we need to return to the human - to feelings and their diversity, to understand that we are not alone. Following John Lennon, they repeat “ Power to the People” , and for classic hums, they repeat that love is on our side. Then, in our general near future, Tverk-bots will not rebel against people-self-losing, washing in the washing machine, controlled by USB 4.0 and synchronizing with iTunes .

You say, this will never happen and do not predict the future on the clips? Never say "never."

Album Basement Jaxx "Junto" - on iTunes