Basement Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest: dance music gone orchestral and jazzy

October 20, 2013 9:11 PM

If you enjoy huge orchestral stage productions of housey dance music, you might enjoy this: the electronic dance duo, Basement Jaxx, teamed up with the world's largest professional pop and jazz orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, a couple years back to create a huge stage production that had a handful of performances, consisting of re-scored Jaxx tracks and a few new productions by Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx. There are some clips and full songs from the shows online, including pro-shot and edited clips from the Barbican in London and and from the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips (Frits Philips Music Center) in Eindhoven, collected in this YouTube playlist, opening with a behind-the-scenes clip, then getting into the proper music. There's also a compilation album (Grooveshark stream), put together from live recordings from the Eindhoven show and studio recordings.
posted by filthy light thief (7 comments total)

I dig. Good find.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 9:30 PM on October 20, 2013

2013 - the year we fulfilled Luc Besson's prediction of the future of classic music from The Fifth Element.
posted by thecjm at 10:05 PM on October 20, 2013 [1 favorite]

Oh man these are from 2010. We've been in the future for a while now.
posted by thecjm at 10:09 PM on October 20, 2013

Thoroughly marvellous.
posted by fight or flight at 6:01 AM on October 21, 2013

Thank you for sharing this.
posted by livejamie at 10:51 AM on October 21, 2013

Love it, thanks! Basement Jaxx is one of my favorites.
posted by Arbac at 11:23 AM on October 21, 2013

Super nifty, hadn't heard of any of this stuff before. Thank you.
posted by Brian Puccio at 7:08 PM on October 21, 2013