the Juiceboxxx Thunderzone Volume 1 mixtape is a lot better than expected.
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edit: reviewed it
Monday saw the release of Wisconson Rapper Juiceboxxx’s first mixtape, Thunder Zone Volume 1. It encapsulates a lot of his carreer featuring remixes of older songs from his previous releases and collaborations along with some new stuff unique to this mix tape. It functions well as a primer, sort of Juiceboxxx 101, which as a promotional mixtape, is exactly what it’s supposed to do.
It captures what makes Juiceboxxx’s rapping style so unique, with that kind of hungry tone that makes you think that if it were for the words he was saying if it weren’t for the shows he was playing, that he’d probably kill himself, or end up in a dead end job in the heartland, which is probably worse than body death. It would be a death of the soul.
The mixtape opens strongly with an intro that encapsulates self-awareness that veers into defiance and a angry rebuke at people before launching into “Thunder Shit” a straight up party rap. Between these two songs, you have a strong idea of the dichotomy of Juiceboxxx, an artist that veers between the straight up feel good music like his previous collaboration with Dre Skull and the almost painful earnestness and self examination that when launched into live can make people feel really uncomfortable unable to discern the real and the stage performance.
There are a host of remixes on here, by people like Gorkabilly (of Bonde De Role), Best Fwends, Teengirl Fantasy and also new songs featuring other artists like Spank Rock, Ninjasonik and also “celebrity drops” and all the air horns you can’t stand that come standard issue on these mixes.
The stand-out remixes are the Best Fwends insanocarnivalefunk take on “Sweat”, the AMAZING Shams 1995 house take on “Hype” and Teengirl Fantasy’s abstract dance take of “Center stage” that replaces the synth line with some fluffly synth washes and unfortunately eliminating the great synth303 at the end.
The new songs included here are all pretty uniformly great switching effortlessly from the aforementioned party jam and the introspection of tracks like Juicy and Juiceboy. I’m kind of surprised that we didn’t see a remix or revision of “Don’t Go Into the Darkness” as I felt that coupled with 100 MPH were the near perfect tracks of the introspective mode of Juiceboxxx.
Overall, this is an excellent collection and well worth your time. I hope that at some point we get access to some of these tracks minus the drops and airhorns because I’d love to get the remixes. He is touring in support of this and he’ll be in NY April 8th.
