Broken Wings

Danish vocal group Basix live from the Netherlands. All voices – no instruments. No autotune used. Lead: Anders Ørsager Basix is: Anders Ørsager, John Kjølller, Morten Sønderby, Peter Bach, Toke Wulf & Niels Nørgaard.

Still Alive

World renowned and 4 times CARA award winning vocal pop band Basix (www.basix.dk) performing the game character GLaDOS' end song from the video game Portal (www.thinkwithportals.com) from Valve Software. All sounds originated from the human voice

PS There has been a lot of talk about whether or not this track really IS performed by voices. It is. However, like many people are noticing: 'processors' are being used. Big time. Autotune is being used on the lead singer, because we wanted to create a sound that somewhat matches the GLaDOS computervoice. Reverbs, delays, and distortion was used as well.

BaSix : Christmastime   

A Christmas winner! This fabulous a cappella pop holiday release has been awarded two CARA awards, for "Best Holiday Album" and "Best Holiday Song" and it's easy to see why it has won such acclaim. Once again this talented group presents fascinating arrangements this time of modern Christmas classics such as George Michael's "Last Christmas", Joni Mitchell's "River" and Christina Aguilera's "This Christmas". Production values are always top-notch with the group and this well-produced, sung and arranged album will be a holiday favorite to play season after season. Recommended.

Songlist: Candlesong, Last Christmas, Silent Night, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Det Er Hvidt Herude, This Christmas, Christmastime, The Christmas Song River, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Soft Soft Present, Dejlig Er Jordan, Christmas Bonus

The first thing that the (beautiful, multi-page, color, with cool pix and all the lyrics) liner notes of "Diversity" tells us is that this is the 5th album by Basix, "the first Basix album containing solely original songs straight from the minds and hearts of all the members of the group. Enjoy!" Easy for us, since these 6 talented Danish men first formed Basix in 1995 we have been watching this group get more amazing with every excellent CD, until we hold "Diversity" in our hot little hands, a tour-de-force 2 CD set that is world-class on every level. There's a total of 19 original tunes here, all sung in English, each one a gem. The fresh, clean sound, the confident, light background vocals and vocal percussion, the surprising, poetic lyrics, the sweet leads-what's not to enjoy? OK, I guess we'll have to pick some favorites at this point. "Super Natural Conversation" on disk 2, a wonderful reggae tune with an early Beatles flavor, "Tease" on disk 1 is a sexy, rhythmic romp, the title tune on disc 1 is a juicy foot-tapping suggestion against racism, and "So Much Better" is a marvelously arranged hit with the eye-opening opening line "I'm sorry, but I think you suck." "Change" on disk 1 simply needs to be listened to, as do "Let's Move On" and "Think Twice." On disk 2 "A Thousand Years," "It Won't Matter To Me," "High On Life (In The Slow Lane)," "Honesty" and "Without You" are all stone winners. There are certain groups (The Real Group, for instance) that push the a cappella envelope with every recording, every performance, and Basix is such a group. Don't miss this one!

Songlist: Why We Always Wait, So Much Better, Tease, Diversity, Said I Wanna Go My Way, Cry out for Muses, Change, Did a Little, Let's Move On, Think Twice, A Thousand Years, Super Natural Conversation, It Won't Matter To Me, High on Life (In the Slow Lane), The Truth Behind my Love, Infected with You, A Thought for You, Honesty, Without You

BaSix : Embodiment   

For their second release baSix has the great idea of getting some of a cappella's finest talents to help them so they engaged the House Jack's Deke Sharon and Britt Quinten of M-Pact to produce the album. A mixture of some fine original songs along with pop classics such as Prince's "Purple Rain" and the Beatles "Come Together" makes for a top-notch contemporary a cappella album worthy of all fans collections. All songs are in English and the production quality is superb thanks to noted a cappella sound engineer Bill Hare.

Songlist: Come Together, Right Now, Fallen, Dining Out, Purple Rain, Living And Loving It, Sweet Misery, My Heart Won't Work Like It Used To, If You Were My Woman, The Right Way, Part Of Me As One, Right Now

An EP release of songs from their "Star People" show highling three diiferent producers who mixes the songs in entirely different ways. A great listen.

Songlist: Treat Her Like A Lady, Knowing Me Knowing You, Star People

BaSix : The Grass   

The group gives credit to Italian a cappella greats Neri Per Caso as an inspiration for their sound and this debut album does justice to that high standard. The CD was a hit in their native Denmark and was the first a cappella recording ever to make the Danish pop charts where it stayed for 7 weeks selling over 25,000 copies. A great beginning for this fine a cappella sextet.

Songlist: Dreamlover, Englishman In New York, You Can't Hurry Love, I Can't Make You You Love Me, It Will Take Me All Life, Hepsi Senin Mi, The Grass, Going My Way, Smooth Operator, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), Weathered Storm, Australian Spring