Misfits Of Science
About Misfits Of Science from Auckland
Avant-garde hip hop, new music, modern rhythmical urban/dance – attempt to categorise them at your peril – Misfits of Science are back!
Their Fools Love video and single – which was one of New Zealand's most popular releases in 2004 – sold nearly double platinum. They followed that with gold sales of their debut album, MOS Presents.... This time round they're wanting you to know that they're not content to be contained within the restrictive confines of hip hop.
"The music we make, the way we look, act and sound, challenges the average listener. Our attention to detail is more pedantic than most. The fact that we know what we like and don't like, only give credit where we feel it's justifiably due, and aren't afraid to voice our opinions, defines us."
Their new material is still iconoclastic and irreverent but there's a focus on intelligent musicality this time- the tracks contain everything from an interpolation of a Bach fugue to woodwind orchestrations in a Nelson Riddle vein. This makes for an exotic but very palatable combination- kind of like a fancy European sausage that once you've tried you just have to have for your next home cooked pizza.
And who are Misfits of Science The musically adventurous duo of Steve-E and Soul Jones are obsessive about detail, passionate, fastidiously quality conscious, unclassifiable and unashamedly hooked on E-bay. They're two smarter than average guys who care about music too much to be doing too much of anything else (apart from shopping on E-bay for shoes and clothes of course).
"Our subject matter isn't about love or hard-life stories. We're interested in sex, buying clothes on E-bay and stuff that happens in everyday life, and we write our songs about that."
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