Legendary Avant-Rappers Anti-Pop Consortium Return To London

Six years after parting ways to pursue separate projects, Anti-Pop Consortium have reunited and recorded their fourth and quite possibly best album, “Fluorescent Black”. APC, who took Hip Hop by surprise with their 2000 debut, “Tragic Epilogue,” proceeded to make a name for themselves as one of the genre’s premiere boundary-pushers with “Shopping Carts Crashing” (2000) and cemented their status as luminaries with “Arrhythmia” (2002).Widely regarded as cutting-edge innovators to a broad spectrum of listeners including b-boy purists, experimental electronic fans and indie rockers, Anti-Pop Consortium’s return is major news. The group has been praised for their stream-of consciousness lyrics, their ability to give seemingly unrelated word clusters hidden meaning, and their sonic backdrops that provide the perfect canvas for their lyrical paintings.With the new album out now on Big Dada, it’s time for the quartet of Beans, M. Sayyid, Earl Blaize, and High Priest to return to the live arena with a show at London’s Scala. If their work in the studio has left critics breathless, their live shows is set to permanently alter people’s conceptions of what a hip-hop show can mean, few, if any other group of MCs can hope to match the collective’s left-field adventurousness, lyrical dexterity or sonic vision.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thursday November 5thSoundcrash presents…Anti-Pop Consortium – livePlus special guests…Juice Aleem (Big Dada) – liveAPSCI (Quannum Projects/USA)Venue: Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Rd, London, N1Tel: 020 7833 2022Web: www.scala-london.co.ukDoors: 7.30pmTickets: £14 - available in advance from www.ticketweb.co.uk