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Less than a year after the release of their debut 12", Juiceboxxx and Dre Skull have raised the bar once again with "Center Stage," 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 "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, just back from a tour of Australia and Asia, conjures up a sonic palette that shapeshifts from shiny to gnarly as the track grows grizzled. Listening to "Center Stage," its clear to see that the duo relishes combing through the annals of electronic dance music, picking up ideas and throwing them at the wall, just to see what sticks.
As the track sprints to the finish line, an unexpected ending takes it's concise pop resolution and aggressively subverts it, pushing it menacingly into the unknown.
"Center Stage" is the second in a mysterious discotheque trilogy, and its hard to see where things will go from here. The night is a harsh mistress, and sometimes man's pursuit of fun takes him to domains he never thought he would enter. Are U Experienced?
Center Stage - Extreme Animals Remix
In addition to the 12", Vicious Pop Records is proud to present a limited edition, one sided, hand-stamped, clear vinyl 7" remix of "Center Stage" by Paper Rad house band Extreme Animals. In this amazing remix, "Center Stage's" sonics are pushed into the realm of blown out Commodore 64 maximalism, and then those very C64 chirps are left for dead at a weekend- long rave in the woods. Abrasive and euphoric at once. Don't sleep! Limited to an edition of 500 and the only place you can get the "Center Stage" record cover in full color sticker form! |
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