anthems". From the same publication, John Bush also agreed those two were their best tracks from 1994 through 1997, and marked them as his "Track Picks" on their compilation. However, looking at the whole Basement Jaxx's catalogue, Anna Chapman from The Independent stated the "glittered" ragga and disco influences of "Fly Life" seemed to "come out of nowhere." French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles still highly praised it, commenting it was "finely crafted", with "the bass increased tension while the dance rhythm completely nailed on the dance floor." Joseph's vocals were also said to give a "disco aftertaste" to the song. British publication Mixmag listed "Fly Life" at number 16 on their year-end list "Tunes of 1997" while house music label Defected Records voted the track as the Ibiza nightclub Space anthem of 1997. The "Brix" Mix was later included in Pitchfork 2010 list of "twenty-five great remixes" of 1990s. Release and other appearances "Fly Life" was released as a single on 19 May 1997 by their own record label Atlantic Jaxx and Multiply Records with distribution by The Total Record Company. The single cover features a giraffe, the picture which also appeared at their 1999 show at the Forum in London via a "vast dot-matrix screen". A few different formats of the single have been released in the United Kingdom and some other countries in Europe, including a CD version which was released in the United Kingdom via Atlantic Jaxx and in Denmark via Smart Records that includes the original mix of the track, a radio edit and an unedited version for the "Brix" mix with remixes from Roni Size, Erick Morillo and Curtis Jones; the UK vinyl single and cassette versions both have the "Brix" and Size's mix, while the vinyl one also added Morillo's and the original mix. A promotional music video for the song was also released while it became their first charted single by debuting at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart on 31 May 1997. After that, the song fell down to number 41, dropped to number 67 on the week of 14 June and disappeared from the chart. "Fly Life" later made its appearances on various DJ mixes, including the free mix cassette Beat Up the NME (1997) from music magazine NME which was compiled by British DJ Fatboy Slim; Junior Vasquez's live album Live, Vol. 2 (1998); later on Victor Calderone's mix