After scoring an underground hit with its 1998 album, "Super Mercado," the hip-hop-meets-frolickin'-rock band 2 Skinnee J's are set to return with a new LP, titled "Volumizer," on September 12.

For "Volumizer," the J's second major-label record, the band enlisted the aid of uber-producer Mickey Petralia, who had just come off of 18 months of session work for Beck's multicolored and poly-rhythmic "Midnite Vultures" LP.

The 2 Skinnee J's recorded the bulk of "Volumizer" at Mickey P's home recording studio in Los Feliz, California and brought in a cast of friends and associates to help out on several tracks, including Incubus drummer Jose Pasillas II and DJ Swamp from Beck's backing band.

"It was exciting to work with Mickey," explained J's bassist Eddie Eyeball, he added.

After working together on "Midnite Vultures," Mickey P asked DJ Swamp to come to the studio and unleash his turntable skills on several "Volumizer" tracks, including "Big Beat Evangelist," "Horns Of Destruction," and "Pass The Buck."

"Basically, Mickey P had DJ Swamp come in and just do whatever he wanted on every song," Stevie Spice said.

"[He had] complete freedom to do whatever he wanted," Eyeball added. Spice noted.

"Yeah, a turntablist," Eyeball agreed, "and he's phenomenal at it. He really is. He added so much to some of those tracks."

The 2 Skinnee J's first single from "Volumizer" will be the track "Stockholm Love," a song about the love-hate psychiatric condition known as Stockholm syndrome.