Beans - Tomorrow Right Now (14 tracks) +Album Reviews

Patchy solo effort.

nr | 05/21/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"The whole problem with these Amazon online reviews is you get an avid fan of the band or artist posting a review gushing about how much they love the particular product and how everyone should rush out and buy it. Hence every product you go to has loads of 5 star reviews. The reviews of this album are typical.
Anyway I'm an Antipop Constortium fan and in reality this Beans solo effort is patchy at best. There aren't enough ideas to fill a whole album and only has 2, possibly 3 standout tracks. There's plenty of filler and lots of tracks that Beans himself obviously thinks just couln't be left on the studio editing room floor.
In terms of value for money this deserves only 2 stars. In other words you wouldn't be missing out by not picking it up."

Yeah yeah yeah

alexander laurence | Los Angeles, CA | 04/22/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Beans (ex-Anti Pop Consortium) has gone all Terminator on us. He looks like a mix of Kool Moe Dee and Kool Keith. Is this supposed to be Electroclash? He's become this scary futuristic black guy who watches too much Star Trek over night. The beats on Tomorrow Right Now are like machine hi-hat claps, bombed-out bass, and futuro-Jamaican hiphop ska. Yes, I was thinking of Warp Records all along. The more electro this record gets the better. It's as if the Anti Pop crew dropped acid and started getting into John Foxx and Afrika Bambaataa. They have obviously seen Plaid walking around with their Powerbooks and become jealous. The hiphop section is good as well. There are not many rebel rappers with fake mohawks. This record has been haunting me for months. "Mutescreamer" even sounds more like old school Grandmaster Flash than it does 50 Cent. Partners in crime include Prefuse 73, Arto Lindsay, Matthew Shipp, DJ Spooky and many more familiar to readers of Free Williamsburg. We are all stars."

Tomorrow is too much for Right Now

alexander laurence | 10/03/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Beans. Way ahead of his time. But so glad that his time is now. Hence: Tomorrow Right Now. Beans of the Anti-Pop Consortium, shows where he contributed to Anti-Pops sound and runs with it. Amazing, smart, witty, metaphorical music at it's best. Probably too much for some audiences due to the fact that he's not screaming this and that, and being drowned out by his own beats. Rock on beans, rock on."

Techno-Rap has never been so delicous.

David | Up-Middle-State New York | 05/12/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Beans was a member of the former anti-pop consortsium, which I'm told split up. I never listened to any of their music but I must say with Beans in them they must have been quite good.
Beans isn't afraid to do songs only using sounds made by his voice(Crave), or to just play techno-music without using his clever wordsmith ability, regardless of that he always makes a pretty good sound. He has a rhyming furiousness that many rappers lack today, rhyming so fast you have to listen closely or miss out. He only ever really slows down to tell a sad tale about some drug and how it caused him problems (Booga Suga).
He is quite smart in his ryhming and you could say this is more of a style of Hip-Hop for the higher mind.
Even though his purely techno songs can get a bit grating sometimes, it dosen't matter with his wordly genius.
Eat your Beans kids, there defintely good for you. (Yeah, Yeah, it's a pretty bad Pun)"

|\\Spittin Hot Venom Verses//|

maxheaddrone | Charlotte, N.C. United States | 03/13/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The first solo project to arise from this once four-man crew [the Antipop Consortium] is all we could expect from Mr.Ballbean (and possibly a little more). He gives us a good helping of the vintage synth/heavy beat styles that APC is known for, plus two of his signature instrmntl anthems, but he also gives us samples of other influences: i.e."Phreek the Beet"(bordering on being a satire song, reflecting a bit of pop-ish playfulness 'Beans so nice on beats/helping old ladies cross the street'), or "Mearle" (an almost industrial or prog/electro tune that comes off like a vague mantra to some sort of neo-mechanical-demi-idol?!?! A great song, but very bizzare.) And "Mutescreamer" (a very funked-out, skating rink jam where Beans describes himself as 'Sultan of syntax symetry/surpassing style pretenders', with quick verse delivery and a catchy chorus to match.) Oh yes, and we can't leave out "Booga Suga" (a spoken word third person confessional about climbing through early drug habits to ultimately become a basehead!! Not very cheerful, but it'll make ya think.)
My favorite track would have to be "Raping Silence" becuase its the hardest, baddest, maddest, sickest track I've heard since Arrhythmia's "Dead In Motion", completely nonstop, its like David Byrne rhyming over a beat from 'Pretty Hate Machine'-- as soon as the beat drops ya start moving. "Hot Venom" and "Crave" are nice, too! "Crave" is made up of beatbox and snapping sounds and the rhyming is at its illest here, because it gives the MC freedom to hit random notes and to vary his speed.
The Antipop will still rule the electro-hop circuit, leaving mainstreamers slain and onlookers baffled. These guys are like stealth rhyme assasins, striding through open terrain untouched. And when the next solo album drops, you can bet its gonna be just as hot,too!!"

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