BASEMENT JAXX'S recent "Kish Kash" was an exercise in frantic, day-glo eclecticism, with collaborations galore and some celestial peaks scaled between the head-scratching and "what the fuck was that?" moments.
And certainly, "Lucky Star" - the collaboration with the much in-demand DIZZEE RASCAL - remains perhaps the album's most exotic slice of party hard pie, throwing all sorts of Arabian shapes around like lightsticks and transporting you to downtown Marrakesh in a heartbeat. Actually, all that's missing is the cobras and the pickpockets, but in their place we get frantic beats and infectious girly vocals that spring up like hives.
The succinct radio edit is certainly the most accessible, but also spare a thought for the 'Jaxx Club Remix Edit' which is bouncier and adds a ska-ed up edge to the proceedings. I'd be less enamoured of the DILLINJA remix, though, which is hard-edged and re-invents in a tough stylee that would no doubt have been referred to as "junglist" back in the murky mid-1990s. Now, though, it just sounds dated and forgettable.
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Still, not a bad outing and pretty much a cinch in terms of chart action, "Lucky Star" is a hyperactive riot and a definite clubber's boon. If this reviewer's back was to the wall he'd probably have preferred the punky "Cish Cash" with Siouxsie Sioux, but this one's still way Moor-ish. Groan.
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