Anti Pop Consortium "Shopping Carts Crashing" Nippon Crown CRCL-8859 2000 (46:44)
Shopping Carts Crashing (:08)
Angular (3:59)
Tilt (3:08)
Throat Cultures (2:59)
Starring Me As Me (1:52)
Excerpt from the forthcoming epic: "Dogland" (3:33)
Technocracy (1:32)
M
(4:01)
Cats Locked Out (3:04)
The Hands Behind the Piano of Time is God (1:40)
Sugar Worm (2:50)
Depletedo Jr III (1:43)
New York (1:42)
Lazarus
Pit (3:21)
Verses (4:53)
Systaltic Quiescence (3:34)
Basix
(2:45)
Why oh why was this only released in Japan?!? "Shopping" quickly followed up, followed in and flattened out the footsteps of the 2000 full length debut "Tragic Epilogue" on 75 Ark. Anti Pop's trio of verbally proficient vocalists - Priest, Beans and M. Sayyid - are augmented by co-producer E. Blaize. It seems as if they belong to a sub genre of hip hop entirely of their own devise. The production is clinically precise and somewhat minimal, the bass and beats crisp and clear with electronic overtones. The rhymes are often tongue tying blurs of abstract dictionary data (the lyrics are thankfully included in an insert). The first stanza of the first vocalized track "Angular" is one of many examples: "unto itself it's incomplete / but made complete by my connection / the effervescent vestige of decimation / the decimal point seven thousandth of a percent / possession with intent to make bent / I break bread with tack heads / in flight unflawed with sight unseen / strongly configured with wire inside of a womb the size of an entire planet born of fire". That all flows by naturally in about 18 seconds flat. And there's another 46 minutes after that. Meticulous mind funk. Oddities along the way include the bizarre future drama of "Excerpt from the forthcoming epic: Dogland", the android vocals of "Technocracy", a few brief instrumentals including the city noise collage of APC's home base "New York" and the surprising guitar sample and female MC enhanced "Lazarus Pit" and "Verses", respectively. "Shopping" was well worth the $24 it took to bring it Stateside. Anti Pop have since signed with Warp Records (!) and their new EP "The Ends Against the Middle" should be out this November ...
Where did I get this cd? - mail order via Forced Exposure.