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Arrhythmia | Audio CD

by Antipop Consortium

List Price:

$17.98

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Binding:

Audio CD

Studio:

Warp Records

Release Date:

April 02, 2002

Sales Rank:

15,043th

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 15 reviews)

Tronman and more... by Xtian Thomas

4 Stars
November 17, 2009
this album... someone called them Public Enemy without the political stuff. Pretty much... doesn't do them justice. They went so much further on this one than the one before (Radiohead asked them to open for them) and it still didn't exhaust their creative juices - although it DID take them about 7 years to break up, get back together and make a follow-up. Listen to a couple of the samples to see if their energy is right for you - they're not for everyone. But if something says "pick it up", listen already. I'm trying to give a conceptual review because there's so many different sounds on this album that I honestly don't know where to start. It kicks off with a GREAT one and just gets better. *gush gush gush* I know, but they put this one out on WARP records. WARP does electronic acts - one of my friends at work described this album as guys rapping over IDM and that pretty much sums it up. If that's something you appreciate, pick it up. I have a soft spot in my heart for them - I loaned the previous album (Tragic Epilogue) to two different people and had to make a point of wanting it back. this one is better. be careful where you play it though - the day I first got this, I went from the record shop to work and played it there... the poor girl I was scheduled with that day and I got into a most inappropriate fight while people were coming by and getting coffee. the grudge lasted all day. she was really cute, but I thought she was lazy. she thought I was too much of a hard@$$, but she never made... see? it's a loaded album for me. even now. there are energies in this album, though, because the music wasn't tainted for me even with the drama of that day. it's just that good. I'd go into a track by track listing, but there's no point. it's an experience. kind of like trying to go into all the reasons you're with the one you're with - no point in breaking it down because the whole is greater than the sum of the parts... but the parts are REALLY good. did I mention they make a beat by bouncing a ping pong ball? if you put this on between Li'l Jon and Li'l Wayne at a party, God help you. if you put this on at the wrong time of day, brace yourself. if you put this on in headphones, you'll have a huge s-eating grin for the duration, but no one will really understand why. they have a new album out, called Fluorescent Black, but this is the one where things got more interesting. they decided not to make a flow throughout the album and their music was better for it. the only flow is disruption - but what else would you expect of an album called Arrhythmia?

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.

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