Basement Jaxx were known first in the mid 90s as a mighty house production duo — Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe being respected peers of Daft Punk and Armand Van Helden. Their second, biggest, wave of recognition came as a regularly charting singles act, culminating in their 2005 The Singles going platinum and hitting number one in the UK. Finally, shortly after this, came the realisation that they were possibly the greatest live BAND in Britain of their time: an explosive carnival of joy, packed with horns, percussion, gutsy soul singers and more. This was made clear to the world when, with her blessing, they took an absent Kylie‘s closing slot at Glastonbury 2005, and the sense of them as a jamming band that’s captured on 2006’s Crazy Itch Radio. While it still has star guests (Robyn, Lily Allen, folk-soul veteran Linda Lewis), they’re way less prominent than the likes of Dizzee Rascal and Siouxie Sioux on predecessor Kish Kash -- instead letting BJ’s regular live vocalist Vula Malinga take the lead. There’s riotous Balkan horns, Gogol Bordello style, some JJ Cale-ish blues-boogie among the house and disco — but despite the sense of bouncing from room to room in a riotous house party, it’s maybe the most coherent Jaxx album of all. Sadly it underperformed and they went back to centring big name guests on its follow-up — but as a document of what it was like to experience the band right at the very peak of their success and enjoying it wildly, it still stands up wonderfully.