A Muso's Top 10: Aesop Rock
Rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ian Bavitz checks in from the midst of a busy touring schedule to tell us what the weather and the soundtrack is like on Planet Aesop this month...
On my short breaks between tours I've been dying to make new music, so I fit in what I can. I produced a remix for Del's next record, did vocals for 2 songs on DJ Signify's next record, remixed and rapped on a song off the next Mountain Goats album, worked on beats for myself and me crew, started writing a collaboration with Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and conducted some interviews for Juxtapoz, and the Citrus Report (a new online mag I'm going to write for). I'm really looking forward to this touring ending so I can go full speed on the creative end of things.
1. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips
2. EPMD - For My People
3. Clipse - Ride Around Shinin'
4. Tom Waits - Little Drop of poison
5. Cage - Blood Boy
6. Freeway feat. Jay-Z - Big Spender
7. Mos Def - True Magic
8. Rhe Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn
9. Kimya Dawson - The Competition
10. Rob Sonic - Teeth Eat Her
Aesop Rock plays the Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh on 4 Feb
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