Junk Science (band)

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Junk science
General information
origin Brooklyn , New York ( USA )
Genre (s) Hip-hop , rap
founding 1996
Website modernshark.com
Current occupation
rap
 Baje One
DJ , producer
 DJ Snafu

Junk Science is an American hip-hop group consisting of rapper Baje One and producer DJ Snafu. The duo formed in Brooklyn , New York in the mid-90s .

history

In the 1990s, Baje One and Snafu met in high school and started making music together on weekends. In 2003 they moved in together and began to work on their debut album Feeding Einstein , which was released in 2005 via Embedded Records. The hip-hop magazine URB rated the album “simply superb” (“simply great”). Also in 2005, the group won the NextUp Song Contest with the song Roads , winning a music video shoot with director Andrew Gura, who had produced music videos for Madlib , MF Doom and Nas , among others .

The success of their debut album in the indie rap scene attracted the attention of the New York underground label Definitive Jux , which Junk Science signed and released their second album Gran'Dad's Nerve Tonic in 2007. This was followed by a tour of the USA with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien , A-plus from Souls of Mischief and Devin the Dude .

When Definitive Jux broke up in 2010, Baje One founded his own label, Modern Shark, based in Brooklyn. There, in May 2010, the duo's third album A Miraculous Kind of Machine was released .

In 2011 Junk Science released the album Phoenix Down together with rapper Scott Thorough, who is also under contract with Modern Shark. All of the instrumentals on the album were produced using the same synthesizers that were used to produce the soundtracks for the video games The Legend of Zelda , Contra and Ninja Garden. The album was published digitally and was also a limited edition USB stick in the form of a pixelated pen on the sales list on the Modern Shark website.

Discography

solo
  • 2005: Feeding Einstein (Embedded Music)
  • 2007: Gran'Dad's Nerve Tonic ( Definitive Jux )
  • 2010: A Miraculous Kind of Machine (Modern Shark)
Collaborations
  • 2011: Phoenix Down (with Scott Thorough) (Modern Shark)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ << Modern Shark: No School ™ Rap
  2. ↑ Junk Science (2)