Arrhythmia

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While most rappers prize money, women, and some convoluted version of "street cred" above all, Anti-Pop Consortium's Beans, Sayyid, and Priest immerse themselves entirely in the joys of language, spitting staggeringly complex monologues in a riot of free-association poetry. "I'm now worthy of the grace / My face graces Jupiter's lakes," they stutter on the excellent "Bubblz" as dislocated bongo drums gasp and stammer around them. The production is out there: "Ping-Pong" loops the snap of a bouncing Ping-Pong ball, while the digital static of "Mega" segues an opera singer's heavenly scales into the trumpet of jungle beasts. Arrythmia is occasionally a difficult prospect--you may want to scream out for a simplistic Puffy brag or a funky Neptunes hook to take a breather from this never-ending torrent of ideas. Still, it's a mind-bending success that seeks nothing less than to deconstruct and rebuild the discipline of hip-hop from the ground up. --Louis Pattison

From URB Magazine
Where so much hip-hop has fallen into a rut disguised as a groove - you know, the boom-bip, the saggy jig, the third-gen lyrical knockoff - Antipop Consortium's three MCs - Ball Beans, High Priest and M. Sayyid - throw on some waffle-tread tires and bust out the all-wheel drive, riding roughshod over all who would bury hip-hop alive. Arrhythmia, their second full-length, is marked by Earl Blaize's heady productions: deep, springy funk, born of ultrasound rayguns and stutter-punk percussion, not tired breaks and re-tread samples. Nothing is linear and nothing predictable. You've got your quavering opera singer. You've got your bucephalous bouncing ping-pong ball. You've got thick, oozing, mudslide bass and melted-circuit keyboards and Blaize's insect-beneath-the-skin paranoid soundscapes.

And don't forget their post-slam poetics, spun this way and that with crazy-straw flow. "We kill soap scum! " they cry, and they're right - their fast 'n' furious spray puts a newfound shine on a genre crusted over with complacency. Sonic fuckery alternates with bona fide songs like "Ghost Lawn," which sounds like Joy Division vs. the Tom Tom Club at the Nuyorican Poets Café. It'd be positively catchy, if it weren't so darn slippery.

This is some paradigm-shifting, sanction-lifting, player-grifting, top-shelf shit. The only misstep is "EKG," an instrumental glide through glistening tones and doe-eyed bass melodies: At only 12 bars and 30 seconds long, it proves APC to be not only brilliant producers but shameless sonic teases, doling out just enough to get you hooked - and keep you coming back for more.

Philip Sherburne

Arrhythmia,Antipop Consortium,Warp Records,Hardcore Rap,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Trip-Hop,Underground Rap

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Arrhythmia Von Frickle Manufacturer: O.I.E. Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mission 4.9 Sola Scriptura Fear of a Blank Planet ASIN: B000GAL2RO Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

1. Pyramidium
2. Scatterbrain
3. Freak Parade
4. Relax
5. Broth of Oblivion
6. Antiparticle Assassin
7. Triptyque d'range
8. March of the Centipede Army
9. Wreck of the Hallucinato: Call of the Siren/Descent into the Deep

Average customer rating: An outsiders view.. An apex for experimental hip-hop TRASH!!!!!!!!!!! Experimentation from the roots of hip-hop m sayyid + high priest = airborn audio

Arrhythmia Antipop Consortium Manufacturer: Warp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tragic Epilogue The Ends Against the Middle Shock City Maverick Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Shipp Tomorrow Right Now ASIN: B000063513 Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

1. Contraption
2. Bubblz
3. Ping Pong
4. Dead In Motion
5. Mega
6. Silver Heat
7. EKG
8. Ghostlawns
9. We Kill Soap Scum
10. Traum
11. Tron Man Speaks
12. Focused
13. Conspiracy Of Myth
14. Human Sheild
15. Place The Face

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While most rappers prize money, women, and some convoluted version of "street cred" above all, Anti-Pop Consortium's Beans, Sayyid, and Priest immerse themselves entirely in the joys of language, spitting staggeringly complex monologues in a riot of free-association poetry. "I'm now worthy of the grace / My face graces Jupiter's lakes," they stutter on the excellent "Bubblz" as dislocated bongo drums gasp and stammer around them. The production is out there: "Ping-Pong" loops the snap of a bouncing Ping-Pong ball, while the digital static of "Mega" segues an opera singer's heavenly scales into the trumpet of jungle beasts. Arrythmia is occasionally a difficult prospect--you may want to scream out for a simplistic Puffy brag or a funky Neptunes hook to take a breather from this never-ending torrent of ideas. Still, it's a mind-bending success that seeks nothing less than to deconstruct and rebuild the discipline of hip-hop from the ground up. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews:

An outsiders view.........2007-05-29

By 'outsider' I mean a person who isn't a typically a hip hop listener. My interests being more in things like electronica, industrial and indie I found this disc to be very enjoyable.
I'll admit that the at times abstract lyrics caught my attention, and being a fan of expermental and avant garde material in general I was happy to hear the inventive wordplay.
However what I really like about this disc is the sounds and beats of the record. Occasionally I hear a piece of music that makes my head feel like spinning, and this was one of them(and I mean that in the best way). This isn't normal sounding hip hop, but i'm guessing most people reading this already have that idea. All the blips and beeps, and crazy beats keep you on your toes.
I'm very sad that this group has broken up, finally a hip hop group I would of really have liked to have seen.

An apex for experimental hip-hop.......2005-11-07

2002 was a great year for lots of adventurous sounds in hip-hop, and this is one of few cds from that year that I still can't seem to hear enough of. Unlike many of the "experimental hip hop" acts, APC didn't seem to give up on the key things that I like about rap music - the clever rhymes delivered by people who know how to rap, and the sense of flow within a song. These tracks are at the same time fun, stimulating and minimal. The production is mostly synthesizer-based, which is unusual at a time when many other acts are taking the sample-heavy route. Here it's a refreshing change. You can tell lots of time was taken to make the little moments happen, whether it's a quick blast of digital distortion on the vocals, or sound effect or electronic squiggle to fit in perfectly with the lyrics at a particular point. I often use this cd to get people into 20th century electronic music (Xenakis, etc) & avant-garde to open their ears to hip-hop. It's a shame that APC split up right after bringing the quality of their work to this high point.

TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-03

Beats?
Terrible.

Rhymes?
Ultra Horrible.

Album?
Useless

Don't buy this. I sold it back. Just from the internet exposure, and what I heard, I thought it to be groundbreaking; no it was earshattering IN THE WORST WAY!!!!!!!! Every song sucks. It's useless.



Peace!!!!!!!!!!


P.S. Amazon would not let me rate it 0 stars.

Experimentation from the roots of hip-hop.......2005-09-26

The Anti-Pop Consortium returns to the scene with their first full-length release for Warp Records - "Arrhythmia". This is my first exposure to the three emcees/producers (Ball Beans, High Priest and M. Sayyid) that make up this grade A brand of experimental hip-hop. I would like to point out that this is nothing like the experimentation of the Anticon collective. It works much better in the sense that they hold stronger to their hip-hop roots. The music rarely feels intimidating, and they don't try to outsmart their underground/mainstream counterparts (even though they do at times). It's a brilliant fusion between hip-hop and electronica. And although some of the beats are complex, much of the mix is quite minimal. There are rarely more than three elements being mixed at once, which makes it much easier to concentrate on the relentlessly seeping lyrical flows. The balance feels flawless, since the beats and loops brought forth sound very inventive, well-crafted, and on point.

The notable highlights would include the well-cut simplicity of "Ping Pong", "Dead in Motion", "Ghostlawns", the tweaked out notes on "We Kill Soap Scum", and the intoxicating reverb and sick battle rhymes of my personal favorite track "Z St.".

Although the Antipop Consortium will throw hip-hop heads a curve ball, it is nothing that a true fan of hip-hop wouldn't enjoy. It gorgeously represents an inventive minimal approach of familiar elements, which showcases their impressive and unique rhyme styles brilliantly. Definitely a keeper.

m sayyid + high priest = airborn audio.......2004-10-25

M Sayyid and High Priest have been recording under the name airborn audio. Their debut album is coming out on Ninja Tune on Feb 22nd 2005.

Average customer rating: I Walked alone Exceptional CD

Arrhythmia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jack It Up Scott Hamilton & Friends One Planet, One Groove The King of Retro Cool Best of the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils ASIN: B00002SSLR Release Date: 1999-01-01

Tracks:

1. Shoo B Doo
2. Sarah Jane
3. Cool Rain
4. Temptation
5. I Will Serve
6. The Velvet Lounge
7. I Walked Alone
8. I Like Women
9. Life Of A Broken Heart
10. Somthin' About Ya
11. I've Been Loving You Too Long

Album Description

Great new CD by one of Americas premier Soul bands, Jack MAck and The Heart Attack. All original songs except for the Otis Redding Classic, "I've Been Loving You Too Long". If Your ready to hear some real music played by real musicians, this CD will make you a believer.

Customer Reviews:

I Walked alone.......2000-10-18

I just wanted you all to know you have thumbs up here,Great CD.Keep up the good work.

Exceptional CD.......2000-04-19

This CD delivers. If you don't know this band: mix equal parts Sons of Champlin, Tower of Power, Otis Redding, Sly & the Family Stone, and their own "special sauce". Great writing, great playing, great sound. You won't be disappointed!

Average customer rating: Anti Pop Consortium Strikes back!

Arrhythmia Antipop Consortium Manufacturer: Warp ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Rap & Hip-Hop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000063XC0 Release Date: 2002-03-30

Tracks:

1. Contraption
2. Bubblz
3. Ping Pong
4. Dead in Motion
5. Mega
6. Silver Heat
7. Ekg
8. Ghostlawns
9. 2
10. We Kill Soap Scum
11. Z St.
12. Traumm
13. Tron Man Speaks
14. Focused
15. Conspiracy of Myth
16. Human Shield
17. Place the Face

Album Description

Japanese edition of the critically acclaimed underground hip-hop act's 2002 album with two Japan only bonus tracks 'Autograph (Interlude)' & 'Autograph'. Gatefold digipak.

Album Details

First full-length release.

Customer Reviews:

Anti Pop Consortium Strikes back!.......2002-04-22

After the revolutionary Tragic Epilog released in 2000 and the discreet japanese-only second album, Anti Pop's third full-length is exactly what fans were expecting from. Just as innovative, cutting edge and - still - true hip hop. Beans confirms that he's one of the best MC on earth, Priest being probably the most original. M. Sayyid completes perfectly the trio with its sarcastic rhymes. As the cover of their first records say : Our past is your future. I totally agree with that.

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Shores of Orion Arrhythmia Manufacturer: Mach Two Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00022WBW6 Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

1. Contact (Part One)
2. Earth Instinct
3. Outcast
4. Memories
5. Clearly Nothing New
6. We Can Fly
7. Speak to Me
8. Nitro
9. Lucius Is Safe
10. To Be a Cloud Floating in the Blue
11. Walking in Our Shadows
12. Anywhere But Here
13. Beyond Horizon

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Arrhythmia Various , Muslimgauze , Crash Worship , and Master/Slave Relationship Manufacturer: Charnel House ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KL3R5Y

Product Description

1 Formula 409 Prelude To Water Boy 2 Muslimgauze Live Excerpt 3 Dissecting Table Road To Death 4 Crash Worship Fearless Rhythm Matrix 5 Memento Mori Year 6 Pain Teens Crumble 7 Trance (2) Film At Eleven 8 Bast Tell Basta 9 Master/Slave Relationship The Gospel Is Evil 10 Chop Shop (3) Mesmeric (Edit) 11 Acandrum Drums And Flowers / Talking Drum 12 Psy 231 Fear To Faith 13 Plateau (2) Jennifur 14 Iao Core The Divine Invasion 15 Turbo Messiah Scorn-Free Workday

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Arrhythmia, Vol. 3 Various Artists Manufacturer: Charnel Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000005PCP Release Date: 1996-08-20

Tracks:

1. Shapeshifter - Then Tingari
2. Darbouka - Desaccord Majeur
3. Bedun (Madaen Saleh Version) - Raksha Mancham
4. Dark Reaction - C.O.T.A.
5. Evolve (Excerpt) - Batterie:Acid
6. Vier Am Fass - A.B.G.S.
7. Amygdala - Tekachi
8. Organic Visions - Ancient Rites
9. Manac - Sephar Hulpe
10. Gesicht - Scot Jenerik
11. Techgnosis - G.L.O.D.
12. Adder's Tongue - A Chocolate Mess
13. Mantra - John Herron
14. Desire And Delusion - Tribes Of Neurot

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Arrhythmia Kerosene Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008H9V Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. Spring
2. Everybody's Icon
3. Worthless
4. Excess
5. Shame
6. Come Alive
7. My Friends
8. Everything
9. Mercy
10. So Plain
11. Joanne
12. Feeling Within

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Arrhythmia Joe Morris & Ray Riendeau & Ted Belledin Manufacturer: Groove Theory Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CADH5I Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

1. Arrhythmia
2. Kundalini
3. Momentum
4. Right View
5. Bodhi Tree
6. What Is Rhythm
7. Decon Recon
8. Right Speech
9. Chant
10. Sunyata
11. Hidden Channels of the Mind
12. Mental Landscape
13. Orinthology
14. 911

Average customer rating: An outsiders view.. An apex for experimental hip-hop TRASH!!!!!!!!!!! Experimentation from the roots of hip-hop m sayyid + high priest = airborn audio

Arrhythmia Antipop Consortium Manufacturer: Warp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tragic Epilogue The Ends Against the Middle Shock City Maverick Antipop Consortium vs. Matthew Shipp Tomorrow Right Now ASIN: B000063514 Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

1. Contraption
2. Bubblz
3. Ping Pong
4. Dead in Motion
5. Mega
6. Silver Heat
7. Ekg
8. Ghostlawns
9. 2
10. We Kill Soap Scum
11. Z St.
12. Traumm
13. Tron Man Speaks
14. Focused
15. Conspiracy of Myth
16. Human Shield
17. Place the Face

Amazon.com

While most rappers prize money, women, and some convoluted version of "street cred" above all, Anti-Pop Consortium's Beans, Sayyid, and Priest immerse themselves entirely in the joys of language, spitting staggeringly complex monologues in a riot of free-association poetry. "I'm now worthy of the grace / My face graces Jupiter's lakes," they stutter on the excellent "Bubblz" as dislocated bongo drums gasp and stammer around them. The production is out there: "Ping-Pong" loops the snap of a bouncing Ping-Pong ball, while the digital static of "Mega" segues an opera singer's heavenly scales into the trumpet of jungle beasts. Arrythmia is occasionally a difficult prospect--you may want to scream out for a simplistic Puffy brag or a funky Neptunes hook to take a breather from this never-ending torrent of ideas. Still, it's a mind-bending success that seeks nothing less than to deconstruct and rebuild the discipline of hip-hop from the ground up. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews:

An outsiders view.........2007-05-29

By 'outsider' I mean a person who isn't a typically a hip hop listener. My interests being more in things like electronica, industrial and indie I found this disc to be very enjoyable.
I'll admit that the at times abstract lyrics caught my attention, and being a fan of expermental and avant garde material in general I was happy to hear the inventive wordplay.
However what I really like about this disc is the sounds and beats of the record. Occasionally I hear a piece of music that makes my head feel like spinning, and this was one of them(and I mean that in the best way). This isn't normal sounding hip hop, but i'm guessing most people reading this already have that idea. All the blips and beeps, and crazy beats keep you on your toes.
I'm very sad that this group has broken up, finally a hip hop group I would of really have liked to have seen.

An apex for experimental hip-hop.......2005-11-07

2002 was a great year for lots of adventurous sounds in hip-hop, and this is one of few cds from that year that I still can't seem to hear enough of. Unlike many of the "experimental hip hop" acts, APC didn't seem to give up on the key things that I like about rap music - the clever rhymes delivered by people who know how to rap, and the sense of flow within a song. These tracks are at the same time fun, stimulating and minimal. The production is mostly synthesizer-based, which is unusual at a time when many other acts are taking the sample-heavy route. Here it's a refreshing change. You can tell lots of time was taken to make the little moments happen, whether it's a quick blast of digital distortion on the vocals, or sound effect or electronic squiggle to fit in perfectly with the lyrics at a particular point. I often use this cd to get people into 20th century electronic music (Xenakis, etc) & avant-garde to open their ears to hip-hop. It's a shame that APC split up right after bringing the quality of their work to this high point.

TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-03

Beats?
Terrible.

Rhymes?
Ultra Horrible.

Album?
Useless

Don't buy this. I sold it back. Just from the internet exposure, and what I heard, I thought it to be groundbreaking; no it was earshattering IN THE WORST WAY!!!!!!!! Every song sucks. It's useless.



Peace!!!!!!!!!!


P.S. Amazon would not let me rate it 0 stars.

Experimentation from the roots of hip-hop.......2005-09-26

The Anti-Pop Consortium returns to the scene with their first full-length release for Warp Records - "Arrhythmia". This is my first exposure to the three emcees/producers (Ball Beans, High Priest and M. Sayyid) that make up this grade A brand of experimental hip-hop. I would like to point out that this is nothing like the experimentation of the Anticon collective. It works much better in the sense that they hold stronger to their hip-hop roots. The music rarely feels intimidating, and they don't try to outsmart their underground/mainstream counterparts (even though they do at times). It's a brilliant fusion between hip-hop and electronica. And although some of the beats are complex, much of the mix is quite minimal. There are rarely more than three elements being mixed at once, which makes it much easier to concentrate on the relentlessly seeping lyrical flows. The balance feels flawless, since the beats and loops brought forth sound very inventive, well-crafted, and on point.

The notable highlights would include the well-cut simplicity of "Ping Pong", "Dead in Motion", "Ghostlawns", the tweaked out notes on "We Kill Soap Scum", and the intoxicating reverb and sick battle rhymes of my personal favorite track "Z St.".

Although the Antipop Consortium will throw hip-hop heads a curve ball, it is nothing that a true fan of hip-hop wouldn't enjoy. It gorgeously represents an inventive minimal approach of familiar elements, which showcases their impressive and unique rhyme styles brilliantly. Definitely a keeper.

m sayyid + high priest = airborn audio.......2004-10-25

M Sayyid and High Priest have been recording under the name airborn audio. Their debut album is coming out on Ninja Tune on Feb 22nd 2005.

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