'Disturb the equilibrium" has been Antipop Consortium's credo since they formed five years back, and their second album, "Arrhythmia," is another welcome one-finger salute to hip-hop's pop mainstream.
These guys glory in doing it differently, in taking risks to push the hip-hop genre into a surreal electro-futurist direction by fusing beefy bass rumbles with a myriad of mad synth sounds.
M. Sayyid, Ball Beans and High Priest first gained notoriety on New York's spoken-word scene in the early '90s by mixing up rap with less constraining poetry. Having participated in a number of crews and projects such as Vibe Khameleons, Boom Poetic and Soup, they got together and formed Antipop Consortium, with producer Earl Blaize -- who's worked with Foxy Brown and KRS1 -- engineering the beats for the trio to rap over.