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Calgary, AB |
Sled Island Festival |
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“The
Ornette Coleman of this rap sh*t / The link between Suicide,
Sun Ra and Bambaata is Ballbeam”
- Beans, from “I’ll Melt You”
Beans (aka Mr. Ballbeam) is back to shatter your silly notions
of “next-level” hip-hop with Shock City Maverick.
Beans’ second solo long-player since the disbandment of
NYC’s legendary Anti-Pop Consortium is a Molotov cocktail
of chunky, psychedelic electro-hop and loquacious avant-rap
narratives.
Bumping in your ride, burning up your iPod or rattling windows
in your home system, Shock City Maverick is the most creative
hip-hop album you’ll hear all year, and this fly rhyme
sayer drops some of the catchiest left field neck snappers you’ve
ever heard.
A perfect progression from 2003’s extraordinary Tomorrow
Right Now and the more succinct and warmly welcomed Now Soon
Someday Ep, Beans wraps up his own production work in complex
wordplay, alternating between the playful and the completely
extraterrestrial, twisting his way through metallic boom-bap
nasty enough to make today’s platinum-pushing super producers
blush. Witness the future-funk party starter “Down By
Law”, the tweaked R&B roll of “Shards of Glass”
or the mind-blowing rap lunacy of “Diamond Halo Grenade”
and then see if the Shock City Maverick hasn’t melted
the competition.
Since first dipping his well-pedicured toe into the solo artist
pool with 2000’s “Nude Paper” 12-inch for
James Lavelle’s lauded Mo’Wax label, Beans has since
gone on to collaborate with DJ Shadow, Bill Laswell, Sly &
Robbie, Prefuse 73, Terranova, Mike Ladd, Dani Siciliano, Dabrye,
Ghislain Poirier, Aceyalone, and many others. Beans has spent
the last year touring alongside The Rapture, Tortoise, Prefuse
73, The Unicorns, RJD2 and Out Hud.
ACCOLADES:
"Beans drops deft poetry with the fastest flow...those
seeking hip-hop on a higher level need look no further."
-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"One of modern hip-hop's most complex and interesting lyricists."
-COMPLEX
""Tomorrow Right Now is a compelling and surprisingly
concise package that makes most mainstream hip-hop somewhat
lazy by comparison." -BILLBOARD
"Beans slaughters your rap idols, then chuckles, "wake
up and smell the carcass. "- SPIN |
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Shock
City Maverick
Warp Records
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