Artist:
Title: Now Soon Someday mini album
Cat#: WAP167
Format: 12" and CD
Label: Warp Records
Release date: 9 February 2004
Website:
http://www.warprecords.com/beans
Video:
http://www.warprecords.com/beans/video.html
'Now Soon Somebody' is the brand new mini-album from Beans, former Anti Pop Consortium instigator, current trailblazing solo artist, style guru, surrealist hip hop poet and sonic adventurer.
Following his break-out debut album Tomorrow Right Now in February 2003 and a year performing his way around the world, Beans returns with a 9 track stop-gap, featuring 6 brand newies and exclusive remixes by Prefuse 73 and El-P.
The new Beans tracks underline the concise, bulls-eye aim of his heavy, inescapable beats and raw rhythms together with an ear for sounds that's outta this cosmos. While his production steps up to a new level, his lyrical delivery takes on an even more commanding, visceral tone, his rhymes digging even deeper into human frailties and existentialism. Forget all that hip hop loud talk about money and bitches - Beans is coming for your mind and your soul.
Recent additions to the Beans fan club include Andrew Weatherall, Output Records' Trevor Jackson (Beans has recently remixed Output act CircleSquare), Miss Kitten, Dani Siciliano (K7/Herbert) and NYC's Mink Lungs, who are all catching up with them what got in early: Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Pharoahe Monch, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox and Missy Elliott.
Having spent most of 2003 on tour with a cross section of contemporaries from hotly tipped act Out Hud (featuring members of !!!), El-P, Prefuse 73, Mike Ladd, DJ Krush and more, Beans' powerful live shows have attracted high praise. 'His machine-gun delivery sprays words into your imagination through inventive cadences and powerful concepts' (Dazed & Confused). 'Swivelling his head in a counter direction to his spinning mic, he cuts a perfect image of rarely seen HipHop-flecked, lost-in-music transcendence' (The Wire).
Beans finishes 2003 with November US shows supporting electro-funk heavyweights, The Rapture. A video for 'Mutescreamer' is also available.
http://www.warprecords.com/beans/video.html