Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest

The album features of older Basement Jaxx tracks rearranged for an orchestra with participated vocals from Vula Malinga, Sharlene Hector, Brendan Reilly, Oli Savill and Lisa Kekaula.

[1] Buckley loosely formed the idea of re-interpreting the duo's back catalogue for live performance, but where concert programmes subsequently developed, so too did studio recordings.

But it was a pretty open-ended request so there was ample opportunity to thrash out the creative details and make sure the world of Basement Jaxx fit well in this new context.

[4] They were joined by Metropole Orkest which includes a 60-piece orchestra and a 20-voice choir,[5] with four lead vocalists: Vula Malinga, Sharlene Hector, Brendan Reilly and Lisa Kekaula.

[6] The first track, "Battlement Jaxx", is new rendition from the Metropole Orkest of the Crazy Itch Radio's intro, which was a classical piece composed by British arranger Wil Malone.

"[12] The album received mixed reaction from DIY [14] A day before their performance at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips, on 3 February 2011, Metropole Orkest with Malinga, Hector and Reilly gave a small live ensemble version of "Do Your Thing" on the Dutch talk show De Wereld Draait Door.