Blaming the delay in getting this one up on the new job – which is a bit sad given it’s post no 3. But, here I am, back with a spring in my step and another criminally under-rated missile. Not really sure why Antipop Consortium haven’t been recognised as bigger force in contemporary hip-hop. Between 1999 and 2002 they were the music press’ saviours of hip-hop (admittedly back when there was still a music press), then almost overnight they were *puff* gone. Ringleader Beans was off in Berlin making psychotic circus music, producer E. Blaize was taking time out… and electronic hip-hop was being pushed forward by, er, the Sugababes. But as I sit here watching Duffy doing her karaoke act on the Brit Awards, I’ll happily live in the 2009 that could have been. Then again, I could get off my bum and catch their reunion tour.
