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Not your average hip-hop band, Anti Pop Consortium. The Ends Against The Middle presents a vision of rap re-imagined for the 21st Century, full of abstract electronics, dysfunctional beats and ultra-fast, ultra-literate battle rhymes. The New York trio of Beans, Priest and M Sayid have been pursuing this refusenik strain of contemporary American music for a few years now, most notably on the excellent 2000 release, Tragic Epilogue. This mini-album, however (their first for hallowed electronica label Warp), comes in the wake of a European tour with Radiohead. Anti Pop plainly share with Yorke's crew a taste for experimentalists l
Not your average hip-hop band, Anti Pop Consortium. The Ends Against The Middle presents a vision of rap re-imagined for the 21st Century, full of abstract electronics, dysfunctional beats and ultra-fast, ultra-literate battle rhymes. The New York trio of Beans, Priest and M Sayid have been pursuing this refusenik strain of contemporary American music for a few years now, most notably on the excellent 2000 release, Tragic Epilogue. This mini-album, however (their first for hallowed electronica label Warp), comes in the wake of a European tour with Radiohead. Anti Pop plainly share with Yorke's crew a taste for experimentalists like Autechre, and the belief that music should never pander to the lowest common denominator. Hence The Ends Against The Middle contains seven avant-beatscapes that are challenging but never alienating, and raps packed with allusions and metaphors that never undermine the lyrical flow. "I rap like there's nothing left to believe in" laments Priest during "39303", but that's his problem: for the rest of us, we can put our faith in his extraordinary group. --John Mulvey
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Manufacturer: Warp
Release date: 26 November 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5021603154025
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