Juiceboxxx & Dre Skull - Center Stage

Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull with a forward thinking slice of vicious, uptempo pop that is as unpredictable as it is formal. Crisp disco hand claps and one pumped up bass line help to push the sound beyond their debut ‘Sweat’ into new territory, while Brooklyn diva Janina and Milwaukee axman Willy Dintenfass add extra layers of sound and ideas. Juiceboxxx, fresh off tour with Bonde Do Role, throws down super jackin vocals while Dre Skull conjures up a sonic palette that shapeshifts from shiny to gnarly as the track grows grizzled. This duo relishes combing through the detritus of electronic dance music, picking up ideas and throwing them at the wall, just to see what sticks. ’Center Stage is the second in a mysterious discotheque trilogy, and its hard to see where things will go from here. On the first remix tip, Curses! is known for his next level brand of "haunted house" and his fix here is no exception. Driving piano leads and ruff tekno bass provide the perfect bed for Juiceboxxx's thickened vocals, and when combined with sampled bits of Dintenfass's pych-o-delic guitar work and intricate, freestyle-informed vocal edits, Curses! has created something contemporary that knows no era, a heavy-assed dance floor monster. Then comes the Farley Jackmaster Funk Remix by the house music legend himself. The master of jack breaks it down to it's most rudimentary elements and reworks them into a poppy, jackin anthem sure to move feet, before turning from pop to paranoid with a psychedelic faux-303 line mapping out a nervous dystopian schism. It’s dark, Mark. In addition to the 12", there is a 500-only limited edition one-sided hand-stamped clear vinyl 7" with a further amazing remix by Extreme Animals, with sonics pushed into the realm of blown out Commodore 64 maximalism, abrasive and euphoric all at once.

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