Beans (rapper)

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Beans
Beans performing at Coachella 2005
Background information
Born	Bronx, New York
Origin	White Plains, New York, U.S.
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	MC, record producer
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Moog synthesizer
Label(s)	Warp, Thirsty Ear, Adored and Exploited
Associated acts	Antipop Consortium, Matthew Shipp
Website	adoredandexploited.com

Beans (aka Mr Ballbeam), hailing from White Plains, a suburb of New York City, is one of the founding members of New York's legendary Antipop Consortium, which disbanded in 2002. With his distinctive fast-flowing poetic style, Beans manages to amalgamate witty, thoughtful lyrics with his own productions of "Chunky psychedelic electro-hop".

Signed to former Antipop label Warp Records, Beans has had two LP and two EP releases since starting his solo career in 2003: Tomorrow Right Now (2003), Now Soon Someday (2003 EP), Down By Law (2004 EP), , Shock City Maverick (2004). His latest release is a self-released LP on his own imprint, Adored and Exploited, entitled "Thorns"(2007). Beans, along with members of the Antipop Consortium, have reunited and are currently working on new material and start touring together again in March of 2008.

Beans has performed on the same stage with such diverse acts as Radiohead, Prefuse 73, The Rapture, Missy Elliott, Mike Ladd, and Tortiose having collaborated with, among others, Vernon Ried of Living Colour, Arto Lindsey, Alec Empire, Funkstörung, Holy Fuck, Evil Nine, and DJ Shadow. He can often be found performing in the many underground clubs from New York's East Village or wordwide, on stage formerly with just a microphone and a portable CD player for his backing track, further reflecting the minimalist nature of his style. In recent times, he has since been performing and touring with a DJ named Prolific.

"The Ornette Coleman of this rap shit, The link between Suicide, Sun Ra and Bambaata is Ballbeam" — Beans from "I'll Melt You" from the album Shock City Maverick

Beans is featured on the Ratatat Remixes Vol 2..