Antipop Consortium

Despite breaking up 15 years ago, Anti-Pop Consortium has never been missing in action. M. Sayyid, Hprizm, and Beans each explored solo ventures that moved them further apart, but never betrayed their core value to innovate the artform. Hprizm has steadily released over a dozen solo albums that explore ambient and improvisational microtonal meditation music—most recently Sacred Drift (2022)—and has his international jazz rap fusion ensemble Sélébéyone with Steve Lehman, Maciek Lasserre, and Gaston Bandimic. Beans launched Tygr Rawwk Records in 2017 with a trio of solo albums, Wolves Of The World, Love Me Tonight, and HAAST and six subsequent albums that reach to 2024’s ZWAARD with producer Vladislav Delay. Although M. Sayyid hasn’t been as prolific, his Error Tape mixtape series (2016, 2024) maintains an unwavering devotion to true to life poetics and abstract production. Meanwhile, Earl Blaize has remained active behind the boards, building his production arsenal, while mixing and mastering many of his APC cohorts’ releases.