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Arrhythmia | Audio CD

by Antipop Consortium

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$17.98

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Binding:

Audio CD

Studio:

Warp Records

Release Date:

April 02, 2002

Sales Rank:

61,734st

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1

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

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

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 (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)

not Anti-pop, just Pop-trash by N. Proph (San Jose, CA)

1 Stars
August 31, 2007
Antipop Consortium's Arrhythmia was very uninteresting and dark similar to Critical Madness' album, "Finding The Plot". Arrhythmia served as a poor man's Saul Williams struggling to find a particular zone or comfortability level to relate with alternative Hip-Hop fans. The production was fine despite having a dark, gloomy tone like you're having one of those bad nightmares. The interlude, "EKG", was an exception (although 30 seconds long) sounded like a product of the Dutch producer, Nicolay. The track, "Mega", seemed a bit offensive reinforcing what this album is missing: a PURPOSE! I often contemplated on Anti-Pop Consortium's intentions for this album...is it really PROGRESSIVE Hip-Hop? "Silver Heat" was another pop-trash example that highlights my point. "Ghost Lawns" was raved by critics but sounded unattractively depressing, the same for "We Kill Soap Skum", "Z St.", "Traumm", and several others. I do not believe that this highly DISAPPOINTING album even applies as a Hip-Hop album; instead, it serves better as one of those barbaric/goth testiments for rebellious teenage white kids. The few enjoyable tracks are listed: "Ping Pong" and "Conspiracy of Myth" stand out on a gloomy depressing album. Don't waste your money.

An outsiders view.. by Turiel (DC, KS)

5 Stars
May 29, 2007
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 by M. Davignon (Oakland, CA USA)

5 Stars
November 06, 2005
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!!!!!!!!!!! by red ant (in da hood)

1 Stars
November 02, 2005
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 by Alan Pounds (Minneapolis, MN)

4 Stars
September 26, 2005
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.

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