Anti Pop Consortium : Rolling Stone

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Antipop Vs. Matthew Shipp

If the words avant hip-hop make you squirm, this collaboration ain't gonna change your mind. Too many tracks feature negligible electronic programming laid over rote free jazz from pianist Shipp's usually sharp ensemble, and when the Consortium take over, all you get is underground rhyming at its mo...

2003 RS: 2of 5 Stars

2002

Biography

Vets of New York's underground hip-hop and poetry scenes, High Priest, Beans, and M. Sayyid formed Antipop Consortium circa 1997 with ambitions of bringing the unbridled creative freedom of the avant-garde?jazz, poetry, who knows?to rap. Though they never exactly broke free from the chains of the form, they went about as far with experimental hip- hop as anybody did in the '90s, or is ever likely ...

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