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avanthop

Last updated: Wed Nov 05 2025 06:10:51 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Avanthop merges experimental hip-hop with avant-garde sensibilities, prioritizing abstract soundscapes, unconventional production techniques, and non-traditional song structures over commercial accessibility. The tag encompasses artists who deconstruct rap's foundations through dense sampling, industrial textures, and cerebral lyricism that challenges mainstream conventions. Rooted in underground culture, it represents hip-hop as progressive art form rather than pure entertainment.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
51		1977	Various Artists	Offbeats Vol.3.1	avanthop
91		1977	Various Artists	TM Radio	avanthop experimental hip hop
75		1997	Dert	In My Nature	avanthop experimental hip hop
9		2000	Antipop Consortium	Diagonol Ryme Garaganchula 2.0	avanthop experimental hip hop
45		2000	The Shape Shifters	Adopted By Aliens	avanthop experimental hip hop
58		2000	The Shape Shifters	Planet Of The Shapes	avanthop experimental hip hop
96		2000-01-01	Antipop Consortium	Tragic Epilogue	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop
43		2000-02	Balanceman	Well Balanced Meal	avanthop electro experimental hip hop
56		2001	Beneath Autumn Sky	Enki-Du's Mono	avanthop experimental hip hop
92		2001-03-23	Antipop Consortium	Shopping Carts Crashing	avanthop experimental hip hop
94		2001-11-26	Antipop Consortium	The Ends Against the Middle	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
15		2002	Tommy V	fresh produce	avanthop experimental hip hop
66		2002	AWOL ONE	Rebirth	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
84		2003	Various Artists	Beyond Space Presents: Vol. 1	avanthop experimental hip hop
10		2004	Aeon Grey	MarionetteWorkBench	avanthop experimental hip hop
25		2004	Id Obelus	88 Oranges	avanthop
48		2004	The Shape Shifters	The Shape Shifters Was Here	avanthop experimental hip hop
69		2004	AWOL ONE	Reborn	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
93		2004	Passage	The Forcefield Kids	avanthop electronic experimental hip hop
59		2004-10-19	The Shape Shifters	Was Here	avanthop experimental hip hop
8		2005	Dreadnots	Money Machine Music	avanthop experimental hip hop
13		2005-06-05	ShamGrammar	Anti-Rust EP	avanthop experimental hip hop north carolina rap	north carolina # 34
34		2005-06-05	ShamGrammar	Anti-Rust EP (2005)	avanthop experimental hip hop north carolina	north carolina # 51
2		2005-06-05	ShamGrammar	Anti-Rust EP [2005]	avanthop
49		2005-08-22	Crunc Tesla	What's Really Rad?	avanthop experimental hip hop
17		2006	Kove One	Primordial	avanthop experimental hip hop
39		2006	Aeon Grey	Primate Curriculum	avanthop experimental hip hop
88		2006	The Mole	Mutamigradaptation	avanthop experimental hip hop
26		2007	Chadio & Aalo Guha	Underestimated Raindrops	avanthop experimental hip hop
28		2007	Nomar Slevik	Sasquatch The Great Undying	avanthop experimental hip hop
31		2007	Height	Winterize The Game	avanthop experimental hip hop
52		2007	Papervehicle	papervehicle	avanthop experimental hip hop
61		2007-02	High Priest	Born Identity	avanthop experimental hip hop
62		2007-07	VeeBeeo	Instrumentality	avanthop experimental hip hop
86		2007-09	Bomarr	Freedom From Frightened Air	avanthop experimental hip hop
81		2007-10-26	Various Artists	One Year & A Day EP	avanthop experimental hip hop
79		2007-12-11	Metropolis Now	Metropolis Now	avanthop
18		2008	Id Obelus & Dj Bizkid	the Fully Automatic Mixtape	avanthop experimental hip hop
47		2008	Bizzart	Future Stars and Small Wonders	avanthop experimental hip hop
57		2008	Papervehicle	The gutspill of 1953	avanthop experimental hip hop
60		2008	Yoome	The Boredom of Me	avanthop experimental hip hop
78		2008	oskar ohlson	honk, bang, whistle and crash
54		2008-02-25	Metawon	Electric Dyslexic	avanthop experimental hip hop
40		2008-04-01	Dreadnots	The Giant Trips	avanthop experimental hip hop
76		2008-06-16	David Ramos	This Up Here	avanthop experimental hip hop
7		2008-08-02	ShamGrammar	Lend An Ear (2009)	north carolina	north carolina # 53
14		2008-08-02	ShamGrammar	Lend An Ear	avanthop experimental hip hop north carolina rap underground rap	north carolina # 35
37		2008-08-08	Id Obelus	The Inevitable Crushing	avanthop
33		2009	Mikal kHill	This is Not an Entrance	avanthop experimental hip hop north carolina	north carolina # 50
1		2009	Dreadnots	The Robotic Hands of God: Ragnarok & Roll	avanthop experimental hip hop
5		2009	Eyes of the Elders	EOE	avanthop experimental hip hop
20		2009	Gavin Theory	Escaping Stasis	avanthop experimental hip hop
27		2009	The Mole	Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1	avanthop experimental hip hop
29		2009	babel fishh & oskar ohlson	pinkie swear	avanthop experimental hip hop
90		2009-06-23	Serengeti & Polyphonic	Terradactyl	avanthop electro experimental hip hop
73		2009-08	Beatcasso	Thoughts Of A Waiter	avanthop electronic experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
72		2009-09	Antipop Consortium	Fluorescent Black (UK)	avanthop experimental hip hop
22		2009-12-11	Myn Dwun	Stream Of Conscienceless	avanthop experimental hip hop
30		2009-12-29	Nomar Slevik	Purple Lights and April Foolishness	avanthop experimental hip hop
50		2009-12	Beatcasso	Poetry In The Club	avanthop experimental hip hop
42		2010	Noah23	Sigma Octantis	avanthop experimental hip hop
21		2010-02-02	Metawon	Choplifter	avanthop experimental hip hop
63		2010-03-10	Mindelixir	Futurism	avanthop dub electro experimental hip hop north carolina	north carolina # 79
55		2010-03-21	Pumpernickle	toyboat lost at stream	avanthop experimental hip hop
46		2010-05-11	Height With Friends	Bed Of Seeds	avanthop experimental hip hop
77		2010-06-05	Myn Dwun	Goose Bumps 2.0	avanthop experimental hip hop
89		2010-07-27	Common Grackle	The Great Depression	avanthop experimental hip hop
35		2010-07-28	Taco Neck	Tutorial	avanthop experimental hip hop
82		2010-09-12	Bahwee	HEADNODDERS VOL. ii	avanthop electro experimental hip hop
23		2010-10-31	Bizzart	III	avanthop experimental hip hop
32		2010-11-30	SkyRider	AUX SEND vol 1	avanthop experimental hip hop
41		2011	Hives Inquiry Squad	Edifice	avanthop experimental hip hop
100		2011-02-08	Dirty Art Club	Heavy Starch	avanthop downtempo instrumental instrumental hip-hop trip-hop	instrumental hip-hop # 29
36		2011-02-14	Evak & Edison	Six Pack O' Death	avanthop experimental hip hop
97		2011-07-05	Big Spider's Back	Memory Man	alternative avanthop lo-fi trip-hop experimental hip hop
71		2011-07-06	Jellyfish Brigade	Gills and a Helmet	avanthop experimental hip hop
99		2012-03-20	s / s / s	Beak & Claw	avanthop experimental hip hop
95		2012-05-22	El-P	Cancer 4 Cure
67		2012-05-29	AWOL ONE	Speakerface	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
12		2012-06-27	Variex	The Glass Swan Project: Anti-Love Songs for Lovers	avanthop experimental hip hop
98		2012-07-24	Dark Time Sunshine	ANX	avanthop experimental hip hop hip-hop
70		2012-10-05	DJ Scientist	Raincoatman	avanthop experimental hip hop
83		2012-10-26	DJ Scientist	For Better, For Worse
68		2012-11-18	Myka 9 & Factor	Sovereign Soul	avanthop experimental hip hop
16		2012-12-05	Jean Vance	Beatsofthebeast Vol.1	avanthop
6		2013	[Blank]	Doors To Sleep	avanthop electro experimental hip hop hip-hop underground hip-hop
85		2014-01-31	Dert	The Short List	avanthop experimental hip hop
3		2014-12-13	ShamGrammar	Progress In Works (produced by LoFi)	avanthop experimental hip hop north carolina rap	north carolina # 15
80		2017-03-03	Various Artists	´08 collected collection	avanthop experimental hip hop
24		2022-11-22	Id Obelus	Promo Overkill E.P.	avanthop
38		2023	Various Artists	Astronautalis & Babel Fishh split series vol.2	avanthop experimental hip hop
74		2023	Various Artists	Northern Faction 4	avanthop electro electronic experimental hip hop reggae
87		2023	Various Artists	The Motherboard E-Comp	avanthop experimental hip hop
4			CRUNK23 (Noah23 & Crunk Chris)	Technoshamanism	avanthop experimental hip hop
11			Skoob Tluda	Volume 1	avanthop electro electronic experimental hip hop idm
19			Prison Soup	Prison Soup	avanthop experimental hip hop
44			Moonbased	City Lights	avanthop experimental hip hop
53			dipak chand	everywhere (the inofficial)	avanthop experimental hip hop
64			Morpheground	Off D'Wrekkid Vol. 1	avanthop electronic experimental hip hop
65			souljim	there is no name ep	avanthop experimental hip hop instrumental

Related genres

• experimental hip hop
• electro
• hip-hop
• electronic
• underground hip-hop
• north carolina
• rap
• instrumental
• alternative
• lo-fi