Lets be real, there are times when underground hip hop all starts to sound the same. It can leave you feeling like you need to go cleanse your listening palatte with some punk rock, reggae, pop, shit anything that sounds different. But I love my hippity hop so much that it would be nice if I could stay in the same genre but get my fix of a different vibe, enter Beans, former member of Antipop Consortium. Dude is a mix of deep bass lines, funky beats, rapid flow, techno and disco? Hey I can dig it, at times I like a little disco with my hip hop. All I know is that he was promoting sci-fi futuristic beats before it was cool ie. now. Only this album came out in 2004, ahead of his time much? I say yes and I also say thank you for abberating. Notice how I have thrown out like 800 different adjectives to describe his music and none of which generally go together? That is exactly what this album feels like. A little hard to define. You probably won’t like every track but you will be intrigued by the large majority. As a hip hop equivalent of a ‘foodie’ I would say Beans is like eating some sea urchin or a PB&J & jalapeno pizza. So eat up the weirdness but goodness.
Production: David Brinkworth, Mark Pritchard
Label: Warp
Beans - ‘Shards of Glass’
Beans – ‘Blind Driver’
