Antipop Consortium
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| Antipop Consortium | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | New York, NY, USA | |
| Genre(s) | Hip-hop, Experimental, Glitch | |
| Years active | 1997 – 2002 | |
| Label(s) | Warp 75 Ark |
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| Associated acts |
DJ Vadim Matthew Shipp Airborn Audio |
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| Website | Official site | |
| Former members | ||
| Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid, Earl Blaize | ||
Antipop Consortium was an alternative hip hop group that released several tape singles and two albums before being signed by Warp Records in 2000. The group formed in 1997 when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City. They are often praised for their stream-of consciousness lyrics, often irreverent and featuring associative groups of words, and their ability to give seemingly unrelated word clusters hidden meaning.
Their releases were met with mixed reviews from the mainstream music and underground hip-hop press alike, although they are noted for their inventiveness and the electronic productions of Earl Blaize. They were frequently compared to other rappers with unorthodox lyrics, such as Kool Keith, MF Doom and Aesop Rock. In 2001, they opened for Radiohead during the European leg of their Amnesiac tour and subsequently toured with DJ Shadow.
The group disbanded due to creative differences in August 2002, with Beans pursuing a solo career while High Priest and M. Sayyid formed Airborn Audio, which released a single album, Good Fortune, on Ninja Tune in 2005, and toured with The Faint and Bright Eyes. All three members are now pursuing solo projects.
[edit] Discography
As Antipop Consortium:
- The Isolationist collaboration with DJ Vadim (1999, Jazz Fudge)
- Diagonal Ryme Garganchula 10" single (2000, Black Hoodz)
- Lift 12" single (2000, 75 Ark)
- Diagonal Ryme Garganchula 2.0 12" single, released under the name Tri Pinnacle (2000, Ozone)
- Tragic Epilogue (2000, 75 Ark)
- What Am I? 12" single (2000, 75 Ark)
- Fear 12" single with Kaos and Patrick Pulsinger (2000, Studio !K7)
- Shopping Carts Crashing (2000, Antipop Recordings)
- The Ends Against the Middle EP (2001, Warp)
- Ghostlawns 12" promo single including remixes by Mike Ladd and LFO's Rik Waller (2002, Warp)
- Arrhythmia (2002, Warp)
- Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp collaboration with Matthew Shipp (2003, Thirsty Ear)
As Airborn Audio:
- The Lucky Day 12" single with Buck 65 (2004, Ninja Tune)
- Snapshots from the Forthcoming Mixtape mixtape (2004)
- Bright Lights/Inside the Globe 12" single (2005, Ninja Tune)
- Close Encounter mixtape (2005)
- Good Fortune (2005, Ninja Tune)
Beans solo releases:
- Nude Paper/Star Killer 12" single (2000, 75 Ark)
- Mutescreamer 7" single (2003, Warp)
- Phreek The Beet 12" promo single (2003, Warp)
- Tomorrow Right Now (2003, Warp)
- Down By Law 12" single (2004, Warp)
- Now Soon Someday (2004, Warp)
- Shock City Maverick (2004, Warp)
- Only collaboration with William Parker and Hamid Drake (2006, Thirsty Ear)
- Thorns forthcoming release (2007, Warp)
M. Sayyid solo releases:
- Outside The Box 12" single (2004, Sound-Ink)
- Twilight Zone mixtape (2006)
High Priest solo releases:
- Mind Control/Disorientation 12" single (2000, Antipop Recordings)
- Sonics For The Youth CDr release (2000, Antipop Recordings)
- Ghost In The Drummachine 12" single (2000, Antipop Recordings)
- Book Of Keys 12" single (2004, Sound-Ink)
- Book Of Ones CDr release (2005, Sound-Ink)
- Prizm 2007 CDr release (2005, Sound-Ink)
- At the Controls CDr release (2006, Prizm Audio)
- Born Identity (2007, Sound-Ink)
They have also collaborated with DJ Spooky, Bill Laswell, DJ Krush, kid606, DJ Logic, MF Doom, TV on the Radio and The Infesticons, among others.
