(Big Dada) CD, 2LP coming soon
Well, you’re getting nothing but bias here; possibly the most overlooked hip-hop group of the 00’s? Anti-Pop Consortium are nothing if not challenging. Their main two releases, Tragic Epilogue & Arrhythmia, are lynch-pins in the world of avant/experimental hip-hop & Fluorescent Black adheres to that spirit. Favouring self-styled bleep-soaked synthetic beatscapes over sample-based loops & breaks, Priest, Beans, M. Sayyid & Earl Blaize are rare envelope pushers in a genre so filled with lazy bluebox recycling bins. Fluorescent Black is a welcome return (the group split in 2006) chock full of flaming battle rhymes, philosophical poems, bizarre structures & the ever-present vocal-trifecta dynamic that is the strongest element of this amazing group. Peep “C Thru U” – there’s no “beat” per se, they just kill it over loping synths & stabs. Or check “Superunfrontable”; alien doom-hop, made for space battles, BAM! Amazingly, APC are playing Victoria, Nov. 17 @ Lucky Bar! Don’t sleep; an important group in the lineage of brave hip-hoppers that aren’t afraid to shrug the weight of tired tradition for new fresh approaches… like these guys.