This is well worth the money. I found it very well produced amd played.
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Most jazz artists complain about electronic music oftentimes calling it stale, lifeless, and even “easy”. In steps Justice On a Budget whose goal of merging the two together to form a coalesce of acid jazz, turntablism, and jazz freeform. Check out the tangling piano pieces on the album starter “Bait” and indeed you’ll take the bait allowing yourself to be sucked in for the duration of an almost hour-long journey through manic electronic jazz that refuses the standard confines of any music genre. Improvisations never sounded so chaotically smelted and yet so beautifully orchestrated. Absolute genius.
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As Lenny Bruce used to say, "New is good!" and Justice on a Budget are certainly part of that scenario.  I think of them as not too far removed from Medeski, Martin and Wood (keyboard trio format, and a varied sense of electronic colors such as "Satellite Maia"'s and "Morongo"'s Latin extensions, followed on by the gamelan/ ring-modulated GET UP WITH IT - era Miles Davis sonority of "Wednesday is the New Thursday") and you'll be in the neighborhood. 

Tasty and highly diverting on a minute-by-minute basis, the band's arrangement sense can be 'clever but not too' (note how the glued-on writing for wind section decays and reforms in "Yangtze"), often startling (the fuzz-heavy Wurlitzer organ and the muscular bass opening "Bait" certainly made me sit bolt upright). The waves of differing flavors from track to track become the point, and they're very cagily thought out.
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