Children For Breakfast Present: Anti-Pop Consortium (Big Dada) & The Ruby Kid

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Anti-Pop Consortium
http://www.myspace.com/antipopny
http://warp.net/records/releases/anti-pop-consortium

Antipop Consortium are an alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City. They are notable for their stream-of-consciousness lyrics and musical references to contemporary composition methods.

They released several tape singles and two albums primarily on Dan the Automator's experimental hip-hop label 75 Ark before being signed by Warp Records in 2000. Their releases were met with mixed reviews from the mainstream music and underground hip-hop press alike, although they are noted for their inventiveness and the experimental electronic productions contributed by all members. They were frequently compared to other rappers with unorthodox lyrics, such as Kool Keith, MF Doom and Aesop Rock. In 2001, they opened for Radiohead during the European leg of their Amnesiac tour and subsequently toured with DJ Shadow.


“As a reaction to the watered-down R&B regurgitation of mainstream hip-hop, APC are an unparalleled, post-modern music force to be reckoned with in any context.” Rolling Stone

"Part of an NYC avant rap underground that are pushing the music into brilliant new corners," Entertainment Weekly

"It doesn't take a genius to see why Thom Yorke likes them so much; like Radiohead, Anti-pop presents a dysfunctional update of their music, replacing the usual sense of community with one alienation.” NME

"APC continues to blow minds and fuck up those neat little categories we music journalists and record stores rely on. Their rhymes are hard, their delivery is tight, and the beats sound like a casio rapmaster and an SP-1200 fucking in the space shuttle. This is some ‘nother other shit.” James Friedman XLR8R

The Ruby Kid
http://www.myspace.com/therubykid

1987 Ruby Kid born. 2001 Ruby Kid start listening to hip-hop, most of it rubbish. 2001 Ruby Kid start writing raps but is shit. 2003 Ruby Kid start listening to good hip-hop. 2007 Ruby Kid record first tracks and have first gigs. 2008 Ruby Kid play gigs in London, Sheffield, Nottingham. June 2008 Ruby Kid support (an absent) Wiley in front of around 400 people at Plug, Sheffield. September 2008 Ruby Kid support (a present) Wiley in front of around 800 people at Plug, Sheffield.

'Poetic, intellectual and engaging, The Ruby Kid not only produces great studio tracks but also pulls it off live. With rippling staccato delivery blended with smooth harmonic vocal support, The Ruby Kid and band show a maturity and understanding of the crowd way beyond their experience. The Winter In The City EP was a great introduction to the promise of this unit. And I'm eagerly awaiting round two' - Iain Hodgson, BBC Radio Sheffield

'The Ruby Kid is one of the most controversially brilliant acts to come out of the Steel City. [He is] an honest voice amidst the waves of commercial drivel. [The Winter In The City EP] has the power to change opinions and the way we act.' – Lauren Peel, Sheffield Music Scene

The Harley
Glossop Road
Sheffield
April 6th
8pm-1am
£5