They had some really nice things to say about the album… check it out:

“Brooklyn-based duo Junk Science is on a two-man mission to shatter any and all preconceptions about how hip-hop is supposed to work. When you learn that MC Baje One and DJ Snafu came up on the left-of-center sounds of artists like The Goats and Mad Kap, things come into a bit more focus, but on their third album, A Miraculous Kind of Machine, Junk Science is definitively revealed to be working alongside the likes of Serengeti & Polyphonic, Busdriver, and LMNOP in terms of underground hip-hoppers seeking out new sonic sources. For his part, Snafu so completely transmogrifies the basic ingredients of his tracks that it’s usually tough to tell where they actually started out, but the end results — while consistently propulsive and hypnotic — have little to do with what you’re used to hearing on conventional hip-hop outings. If anything, they’re closer to Nightmares on Wax or Kahn than your usual hip-hop beatmeisters. And Baje One delivers a flow that’s simultaneously thoughtful and unrelenting, never reliant on braggadocio, and never shying away from a sensitive side that’s too often swept under the rug by other rappers. A Miraculous Kind of Machine points a peculiar but powerful way forward for hip-hop.”

Read the original piece HERE

Get your copy of the CD  HERE or head over to

LIZZY SNAPS is a great photographer, and a close friend of ours here at Modern Shark. She came to the Junk Science album release party with the camera in hand, check it out…

BAJE ONE

SNAFU

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It’s a voting thing. If we win, we get some free studio time and such, but more importantly, we stay on the Deli’s homepage for the rest of June… pretty sweet. We would sincerely appreciate your support.

You can vote HERE.

If you happened to listen to the Junk Science appearance on WFMU a few weeks back, you woulda heard that me and Snaf were formally introduced to the Elmhurst, Queens MC known as Homebody Sandman.

I have to admit… I’m a jaded motherfucker when it comes to hip hop. These days it seems we all are, at least a little bit. In fact, when the DJ, Billy Jam (who is one of my favorite people by the way), told me there would be other rap types at his show I was like “awww, come on man.” Because most rappers are crazy. Or aggressive, or dangerously insecure, or a magical and terrible mix of all those adjectives. I blame it on the constant self-promotion / self-delusion. Read the rest of this entry »

I found this while googling Cool Calm Pete’s ‘Over You’ mixtape, checking to see where it’s been re-posted in the vast, strange ocean that we call the interweb. Amazing! Shout out to whoever wrote this / translated this / is a weirdo and talks like this:

“Cool Calm Pete pretty such keeps to himself, but, presented the denomination of his time project, he strength be hiding discover to intend over a fortuity up- or at small imagining said fortuity up and predicting what it would be same to advise time the academic relation in discourse and then constructing a “make conceive film” most the undergo he haw or haw not hit had at whatever saucer in his chronicle and titling it Over You. It’s play to embellish manifest ground this guy’s prototypal medium was titled Lost. Convoluted backwards news aside, here are the essential facts: It is a supremely modify mixtape existence offered for set dollars and set cents. There’s not modify a remorse causation gift button. Head over here to analyse it out.”

See it HERE to believe it.

= yung baje

Come by. And get a free copy of the new CD with purchase of your ticket.

Advance tickets HERE.

If you’re coming on the later side you might wanna consider the advance tickets.

SHARK  out.

Well, not really, but come on… this is so good! This video is worth a view for so many reasons.

1) the lyrics -  ”the ocean is haunted!”

2) watching the video reminded me how goodbad a movie Deep Blue Sea is.

3) watching the video showed me every single death scene from the movie so as to save me the time it would actually take to re-watch Deep Blue Sea.

shout out to Susan Z. Anthony for the putting the kid on.

= big baje

photo by Nnenna Stella

Finally! It’s been a long time coming, for real. But the wait is over (at least for me and Snafu).

The album is up on , AMAZON, and any and everywhere where fine digital music is sold!

For those of you that prefer tangible goods, you can also get the CD direct from us, or in a store near you.

I would like to offer a sincere and thorough thank you to everyone who pre-ordered the CD. I tried to include as much bonus stuff as possible in every package. And with each trip I took to the post office over the last two weeks I felt profoundly grateful to be here and to be doing what I love. Thank you for that.

For everyone who has ever supported Junk Science and Nuk Fam over the years, I would like to sincerely thank you as well. If you ever sent us an email or came up to us at a show just to say that you like our music, you might not be aware how much that has meant to us, so I will be explicit here: it has meant absolutely everything to us.

Live every week like it’s shark week.

= baje

“The local hip-hop duo Junk Science is the m.c. Baje One and the d.j. Snafu. The two (whose real names are Michael Angelo Tumbarello and James Luther Christensen) met in high school in Brooklyn during the halcyon days of the Clinton Administration, and they have been trading old-school beats and clever rhymes ever since. They have a tongue-in-cheek attitude and a rewarding, wiser-than-their-years approach. They’re here to celebrate the release of their third album, “A Miraculous Kind of Machine.” With Das Racist, a similarly minded duo (Victor Vazquez and Himanshu Suri) who had a minor hit last summer with “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” in which the names of the fast-food chains serve as both a chorus and a punch line.”

Read the original piece HERE

Get tickets to the album release party HERE