Artist: AntiPop Consortium
Genre(s):
Trip-Hop
Dance
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Ghostlawns
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Arrythmia
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
The Ends Against the Middle
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Shopping Carts Crashing
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Tragic Epilogue
Year: 2000
Tracks: 19
Lift EP
Year:
Tracks: 6
Antipop Consortium emerged in the early 2000s as one of the underground hip-hop scene's to the highest degree inventive groups, bridging the gap 'tween New York hip-hop and glitchy IDM. Group members Priest, Beans, and M. Sayyid linked forces in 1997, along with producer E. Blaize, world Health Organization would suit the group's most renowned fellow member. After some subway system singles that didn't contact far beyond New York's boroughs, the Ark 75 label released Tragic Epilogue, the group's debut full-length, in 2000. Though the album wasn't quite an as hardiness as Antipop Consortium's serial releases, it all the same garnered solid herald, placing the grouping among similarly jittery New York subway system hip-hop artists such as Company Flow.
In fact, Tragic Epilogue's spat even crossed the Atlantic. Warp Records -- the fabled IDM label based in England best-known for cathartic artists such as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Autechre -- distinct to sign the group, quite an a remarkable move for both parties: Warp was known for IDM, non hip-hop, and Antipop Consortium was potentially distancing itself from the finical underground hip-hop scene. Regardless of the risks involved, Warp released Antipop Consortium's The Ends Against the Middle EP in late 2001, followed shortly afterward in 2002 by a full-length drive, Arrhythmia. Both releases corporate an obvious IDM influence, specially from a production viewpoint. Producer E. Blaize moved away from neat hip-hop breakbeats, sledding instead with glitchy beats and angulate rhythms. As a answer, Antipop Consortium crossed over from the stateside resistance hip-hop scene to the more international IDM scene, which was seemly increasingly interested in belt during the early 2000s. After wrap up DJ Shadow's North American hitch in late July 2002, Antipop Consortium disbanded. It was expected that High Priest, Beans, and M. Sayyid would outlet solo material by the end of the year.
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