Biography
White Plains, New York, USA. Former Anti-Pop Consortium adventurer Beans offers a unique vision of hip-hop’s future. Self-declared as ‘the New Wave vandal’ (on the single ‘Phreek The Beat’), Beans is astute and outspoken enough to have declared hip-hop as an essentially conservative genre. He offers an avant garde reinterpretation of the genre that is deeply rooted in electro (and which, at times, is reminiscent of Brian Eno, the Fall and the Art Of Noise). His recordings meld contemporary hip-hop with the laptop experimentation of his labelmates on Warp Records. Beans had already released a solo recording (2000’s 12-inch single ‘Nude Paper’, via Mo’ Wax Records) and begun work on his solo set, Tomorrow Right Now, before the dissolution of Anti-Pop Consortium. The sleeve of the 2003 album depicted Beans with a purple mohawk hairstyle and visor shades, and such an unexpected look (by hip-hop standards) seems integral to...
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