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Music Video: Warning, this new Basement Jaxx video involves some serious dancing

Date
24 September 2013

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Prepare yourself for some serious desk-time dancing, unless you are the sort of person who doesn’t like dancing in which case look away now because this will happen to you when watching Basement Jaxx’s new video What a Difference Your Love Makes and it is so great my face is hurts from smiling.

Set in Johannesburg, director Damian Weilers has made one hell of a video, following the lives of two young men, flipping between shots of them dancing as kids to them dancing as adults; every single move of theirs from getting dressed to running through the streets to their seriously impressive Pantsula dancing, in perfect time with the wicked beats in the background.

And if you’re not already smiling madly from the music and dancing alone, you will be when you watch the whole thing through with the nostalgia of their friendship, the energy, the painfully wonderful relationship between the men and the mother in the video and did I mention the matching outfits, braces and bobble hats included. In short, it is bloody brilliant and if you can resist dancing, you are a stronger person than I am.

Two people in suits and hats dance on a street corner, surrounded by a group of children. Behind them is a shop with a sign that reads “Mr Malekist Isaac Hair Salon”.
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Basement Jaxx: What A Difference Your Love Makes

Two children stand on a paved street, smiling and looking towards each other. A person in a dark polo shirt and white trousers stands beside them, watching.
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Basement Jaxx: What A Difference Your Love Makes

Two people dance on a sandy hilltop against a clear blue sky. They are shirtless and wear matching red trousers.
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Basement Jaxx: What A Difference Your Love Makes

Two people stand side by side in coordinated outfits consisting of yellow shirts, patterned ties, and dark trousers. They both wear sunglasses and small, light-coloured hats.
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Basement Jaxx: What A Difference Your Love Makes

A group of people dance in the middle of a street, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. In the foreground, two figures in red trousers and cream shirts lean back in coordinated poses.
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Basement Jaxx: What A Difference Your Love Makes

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