by: Sean Boy
It's the number two album proper from M. Sayyid, Beans, E. Blaize, and High Priest, collectively known as Antipop Consortium. Their collision of rap, poetry and quirky electronic production settle and gel even better than expected. Take "Bubblz" as proof. It kicks in with a quick street musician vibe with a burst of bongos. More street-style percussion will kick in deeper into the track, but in the meantime there's a mean beat laid down as backbone along with a buzzing melody. The vocal flow is super-tight, the delivery a tweaked poetry style. Lyrically APC is other-worldly: spaced out and more concerned with the musicality of language than conveying a story or preaching an ideology. But Antipop Consortium does have an agenda. They formed under one: disturb the equilibrium. They pull it off with their skills and futuristic production, raising the bar for the Hip Hop world they were disillusioned with back in '97. Mad new Hip Hop is not what you might expect from Warp records, but neither is Antipop Consortium what you'd
expect from the world of Hip Hop.
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