Alternative rap at its finest.  Anti Pop Consortium from New York City have been making music since the quintet met at a poetry slam in 1997.  Their stream-of-consciousness lyrics and experimental electronic music have kept them avant-garde and underground.  Although they broke up over creative differences in 2002,…

Indelibly connected to ‘80s “old school” hip-hoppers Afrikka Bambaataa, Ultramagnetic MCs, and the Bomb Squad, Anti-Pop Consortium’s four permanent members met at a late-‘90s New York City poetry slam. Like beacons shining down on hardcore rap’s ominous doomsday devises, dexterous lyrical commentators Beans, High Priest, and M. Sayyid…

Perhaps the most striking thing about the first full-length from Anti-Pop Consortium since their reunion a few years ago is that, if anything, they’re more “electronic” sounding than when they were on Warp Records. Whether that makes sense in print or not isn’t the point—putting the group that did “Ping…