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Antipop Consortium | Arrythmia

A mindblowing hip hop release on Warp Records.
CD, Warp/Lowlands

Tekst: Koen Mariën

Publicatiedatum: 11 mei 2002

When the Antipop Consortium signed to Warp last year it was a noticed and unusual move. Yet listening to their second full length Arrythmia it was a move that makes a lot of sense. Priest, Beans and M. Sayyid combine firing staccato rhymes with experimental beats and electronica. The awkward rhythmes from the New York crew can easily compete with the musical madness from that other anti-commercial consortium: Kool Keith. But it's an unfair comparison. Keith only has Kutmasta Kurt at his side, APC is three heads strong and they all throw in everything they've got, which means three vocalists and a lot of beats and sounds.
It also means a lot of energy blasting through your speakers. The finest example is 'Ghostlawns', the absolute gem on Arrythmia: relentless rhymes, machine gun beats and a poppy vocal line weaven through it. An unusual combination, but that's APC at its best. Like in Ping Pong where militant rhymes flow over cartoon-like keys and ping pong sounds, or 'Human Shield': relentless stuff but great fun at the same time. And then I haven't even praised their story-telling (We Kill Soap Scum), the intelligent lyrics (Conspiracy of Myth) or the crazy interludes (Tron Man Speaks). Again a winner for the people at Warp, who've got more experimental hip hop lined up with a Prefuse73 album later this year.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/antipop-consortium/arrythmia/1540/
Meer Antipop Consortium op KindaMuzik: http://www.kindamuzik.net/artiest/antipop-consortium