Search & Destroy: Glitch Rap

does the kid 606 and friends nwa album count? i've got the strait outta compton 7" (although the misfits attitude rework on the flip is better).

the prefuse 73 12" on warp is ok, but nothing special. what about anti-pop consortium? i've never actually heard them (and the name is to an ILMer at least off-putting). they're supposed to be an american hip hop outfit on warp who used glitches and tones and stuff. it sounds like it ought to be good but when it comes to hip hop i'm not an indie/underground type and am prepared for it to be a let down.

I enjoy that Prefuse 73 12´´ well enough and look forward to the full-length, but am unmoved by the Anti-Pop Consortium. Sonically interesting, but the rapping is lacking. I respect it, I like the idea of it, but, ultimately I don't care to listen to it. I may see them and Mike Ladd on Sunday, but I'm more interested in checking out Ladd, whom I haven't yet heard.

i love all these threads lately that are based on stuff i said.

anyway i actually i posted a question about this a while back here which seemed to get sort of misunderstood as a whole (although 'Leslie Langdon' was helpful). i still haven't found enough for me yet, but of course all the stuff i mentioned in my question is excellent. i checked out prefuse 73 and found it to be a little too abstract for my tastes so i can't recommend that unless you want the rap part to be pretty much absent, but the entire idea of 'glitch rap' is a trend i want to continue.

oh, and, anti-pop aren't any more 'glitchy' than most other acts. i guess the production can be sorta technoish, although signing to warp might push them towards the idm/ glitch edge.

Thanks, this is kinda what I'm looking for, but more... mainstream? More pop? What fired up my interest was something i heard on a corporate Clearstream station that prides itself on "jams." It almost makes me wonder whether the skips and glitches were just cover-ups for obscenities, and the skips sounded better than any profanity could have. The glitches seemed too big and rhythmic to be editing devices though.

scott, i have to say i found that mike ladd/infesticons thing extremely disappointing.

not related to glitch rap per se, um, or even at all...

i was talking to tom the other day about my big sloppy embarrassing love of mike ladd and how i should do a bunch of dj martian- type plugs for him on the forum, so let me do so. the man is a lyrical and production genius. his conversational flow takes some getting used to and he's admittedly pretentious at some points, but otherwise, great in every fucking way. don't listen to anyone else, my opinion on music is the correct one.

Was that it? Ethan. It can't be DJ Martian-style with a paragraph that short.

it also wasn't bizarrely formatted and filled with invented subgenres. i guess i'm just lazy.

It's gotta be hard work being DJ Martian.

acting as promoter, webmaster, groupie, and in many cases, sole fan of seven hundred and thirty-four different bands? you'd better believe that's hard work.

I'm not entirely sure what glitch rap consists of, but (Ethan) you might like to check out Youngblood Brass Band (http://www.youngbloodbrassband.com). They are, of all things, a local but highly professional hiphop brass band from Wisconsin, whose album Mike Ladd and Talib Kweli guest on.

because we all know there's nothing glitchier than a high-school brass band.

actually i checked that out and it doesn't look half bad. hmm.