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Aesop Rock

Real Name:Ian Mathias Bavitz
Profile:Born: 1976, Long Island, New York

It's Aesop Rock time, again. The eclectic rhyme-sayer who burst onto the radar with his universally acclaimed Definitive Jux debut album Labor Days and then followed it up with the anthemic EP Daylight, returns to reclaim the truth and hand out lyrical beat downs to those who stole the up-rock and buffed the trains. Over four albums of futurized funk, Aesop Rock has been blowing minds with detail-driven narratives and dexterity defying word play. From the early records Music For Earthworms, Appleseed and Float to the masterful Labor Days, his singular voice has filtered tales of Lower East Side city life through a highly personal lens. And that voice has reached out and touched an enormous amount of people. Surprisingly, while his last two efforts were legitimate underground hits (moving more units than most indie artists, hip hop or otherwise, do in their entire careers) Aesop went into near seclusion for most of the time, avoiding the spotlight that was desperately seeking him out.
URLs:http://www.aesoprock.net/
http://www.myspace.com/aesoprockwins
Aliases:Ian Bavitz
Name Variations: All | Aesop Rock | Aesop | AesopRock
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Releases:
Music For Earthworms (CDr)   Not On Label 1997
Appleseed (CDr)   Not On Label 1999
Float (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Mush 2000
Boombox (12")   Definitive Jux 2001
Coma / Maintenance (12")   Definitive Jux 2001
Daylight EP (12")   Definitive Jux 2001
Labor Days (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Definitive Jux 2001
Daylight (CD, EP)   Definitive Jux 2002
Dead Light / Train Buffer (12")   Chocolate Industries 2002
Bazooka Tooth (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Definitive Jux 2003
Easy / No Jumper Cables (12")   Definitive Jux 2003
Freeze / The Greatest Pac-Man Victory In History (12")   Definitive Jux 2003
Limelighters (12")   Definitive Jux 2003
All In All / Make News / Bazooka, Chameleon, Robot (12")   Definitive Jux 2004
Build Your Own Bazooka Tooth (2xCD)   Definitive Jux 2004
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire And Knives ◄ (3 versions)   Definitive Jux 2004
Nature Sounds Presents The Prof. In... Convexed Sampler (12")   Nature Sounds 2004
Fast Cars / Number Nine (12")   Definitive Jux 2005
Fishtales (File, MP3)   Definitive Jux 2006
The Next Best Thing (7", Pic, Ltd)   Definitive Jux, Upper Playground 2006
All Day: Nike+ Original Run ◄ (2 versions)   Nike+ Sport Music 2007
Coffee / Citronella / The Next Best Thing (12")   Definitive Jux 2007
None Shall Pass (CDr, Single, Promo)   Definitive Jux 2007
None Shall Pass (File, MP3)   Definitive Jux 2007
None Shall Pass (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Definitive Jux 2007
None Shall Pass / Puff Tuff (7", Pic, Ltd)   Definitive Jux 2007
Ghosts of the Barbary Coast (File, MP3)   Definitive Jux 2008
Remixes:
Shoplift (12") Dylsexia (Aesop Rock Mix) Definitive Jux 2004
Tasted By Chemists (CD, Album) Catch 22 Grimace Federation 2007
Production:
Def Jux Presents... (CD) Kill 'Em All Definitive Jux 2000
Insideout Vol. 1 - A Fool Blown Compilation (CD) The Tugboat Complex Blown! Recordings 2000
Definitive Jux presents II (CD) Dead Pan Definitive Jux 2001
Definitive Jux presents II (2xLP) Dead Pan Definitive Jux 2001
Juice CD Volume 34 (CD) Freeze Juice Magazin 2003
SPEX CD #34 (CD) Freeze Spex Magazine 2003
Definitive Jux Presents III (CD + DVD) All In All, You're Dea... Definitive Jux 2004
Definitive Jux Presents III (3xLP) All In All, You're Dea... Definitive Jux 2004
Shoplift (12")   Definitive Jux 2004
Urban Renewal Program Supplement 1.5 ◄ (2 versions) Train Buffer (Aesop Ro... Chocolate Industries 2004
NBA 2K6: The Tracks ◄ (2 versions) Junkyard Decon 2005
Year Of The Beast ◄ (2 versions) Knowledge Definitive Jux 2005
Back To The Grill, Again (CD, Mixed) Milkcrate Full Of Free... O.T.S. Entertainment 2007
Bloody Radio (CD, Album) Give Me Love Rhymesayers Entertainment 2007
Bloody Radio (2xLP, Album)   Rhymesayers Entertainment 2007
Scifentology II (14xFile, MP3) Dirt Empire Definitive Jux 2008
Depart From Me (CD, Album) Strain Definitive Jux 2009
Depart From Me (2xLP, Album) Strain Definitive Jux 2009
Definitive Jux Presents: The Juk(i)e Box - Version 1.0 (CD, Enh, Promo) N.Y. Electric (Snippet... Definitive Jux  
Appears On:
Coward Of The Year (12", Single, Promo) Coward Of The Year (Hi... Sm:)e Communications 1998
Coward Of The Year (12") Coward Of The Year (Hi... Sm:)e Communications 1998
Shere Khan (12", Promo) Shere Khan, Shere Khan... Sm:)e Communications 1998
One Hundred (CD) Shere Khan, Home Again Sm:)e Communications 1999
New Voices Vol. 48 (CD, Comp, Car) No Regrets Rolling Stone (Germany) 2001
Put Your Quarter Up / Persevere / Follow Me (12") Put Your Quarter Up (C... Molemen 2001
Ritual Of The... (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Put Your Quarter Up Molemen 2001
Sick Of Waiting Tables (CD, Comp) Orphanage Freestyle Pa... Strange Famous Records 2001
Tags Of The Times 3 (3xLP, Comp) Wise Up Mary Joy Recordings 2001
Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (Album) ◄ (5 versions) Black List Warp Records ... 2001
Brechtian Tactics (Cass, Mixed) Blacklist Vulgar 2002
Dry Bones (12") Dry Bones Remix (Dirty... Third Earth Music 2002
Fantastic Damage (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Delorean Definitive Jux 2002
Fantastic Damage CD Sampler (CD) Delorean Definitive Jux 2002
First Contact 001 (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Take Me To The Basement Ozone Music 2002
Godlovesugly / Flesh (Remix) / Bleed Slow (12") Flesh (Remix) (Dirty) Fat Beats 2002
Got Lyrics? (2xLP) Killing Time Weightless Recordings 2002
I Phantom (Album) ◄ (4 versions) Success Definitive Jux ... 2002
I Phantom Album Sampler & Greatest Hits Collection (CD) Success Definitive Jux 2002
Movement One (12") Take Me To The Basemen... Tri-Eight Music Supplies 2002
Singular Plurals (CDr) Bent Life Sun Cycle Entertainment 2002
The Bedford Files, Archives A/B (12") Innercity Hustle (Clea... Embedded 2002
The End Of The Beginning... (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Happy Pillz Definitive Jux 2002
Urban Renewal Program (CD, Maxi) Train Buffer Ninja Tune 2002
Urban Renewal Program (CD) Train Buffer Ninja Tune 2002
Ghetto Blaster (Album) ◄ (3 versions) Shut Down Chocolate Industries ... 2003
Smashy Trashy (CD) Love To F*ck Definitive Jux 2003
Smashy Trashy (2xLP) Love To Fuck Definitive Jux 2003
The Horror (Maxi) ◄ (3 versions) Final Frontier (Remix) Definitive Jux 2003
Underground Explorer v.1.0 (Cass, Mixed) DeLorean LSD Production 2003
Celestial Clockwork ◄ (3 versions) Time Capsule Weightless Recordings ... 2004
Chamber Music ◄ (2 versions) Encounter Weightless Recordings 2004
Crooked (12")   Marine Parade 2004
Crooked (CDr, Single, Promo)   Marine Parade 2004
Cut To The Chase (2xLP) Secret Agents Underworld Inc. 2004
Elixir (12") Posse Slash (Hydro Mix) Chocolate Industries 2004
FabricLive. 16 (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Crooked Fabric (London) 2004
Look Mom... No Hands ◄ (2 versions) Posse Slash Chocolate Industries 2004
Mixtape Volume 2 (CD, Album) Posse Slash Day By Day Entertainment 2004
Now And Then (CDr, Mixed) Coward Of The Year Not On Label 2004
Sunday Séance (CDr, Promo) Jet Son Ninja Tune 2004
Sunday Séance / Jet Son (12") Jet Son (Vocal Version) Ninja Tune 2004
The Anti-Mobius Strip Theory (CD) Apocalypse Zone Day By Day Entertainment 2004
Trifecta - Underground Exclusives (CDr) Apocalypse Zone Not On Label 2004
You Can Be Special Too (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Crooked Marine Parade 2004
Yung World (CD, Album) Helium Not On Label 2004
寂 Jaku (Album) ◄ (5 versions)   Columbia ... 2004
1988 ◄ (2 versions) Lo-Fi Funk Rhymesayers Entertainment 2005
Biochemical Equation / Preservation (12") Preservation (Clean), ... Babygrande 2005
Boombox / Lo-Fi Funk (12") Lo-Fi Funk (Clean) Rhymesayers Entertainment 2005
Common Man's Anthems (CD) Nuclear Five Uncommon Records 2005
Deadlivers (2xLP) Voltronic Instructiona... Rhymesayers Entertainment 2005
Deadlivers (CD) Voltronic Instructiona... Rhymesayers Entertainment 2005
Definitive Jux and DJ Big Wiz of The Steelworkerz Present: The 48 Hour Miracle Mix (CD, Promo) Left It To Us HHC Magazine 2005
Definitive Jux presents Bucket of B-Sides Vol. 1 ◄ (2 versions) Final Frontier (Remix) Definitive Jux 2005
Hell's Winter (Album) ◄ (4 versions) Left It To us Definitive Jux 2005
Legendary Status (CD) Coward Of The Year MTA Records 2005
Mash Up ◄ (3 versions) Crooked Discograph 2005
Presents... Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture (2xLP) Preservation Babygrande 2005
Pressures Of Life (12") World's Collide (Stree... Pockets Linted Entertainment 2005
Scenester / Left It To Us (12") Left It To Us (Dirty),... Definitive Jux 2005
Surrounded By Silence (Album) ◄ (4 versions) Sabbatical With Options Warp Records ... 2005
The Dick Swanson Theory (Album) ◄ (2 versions) World's Collide Pockets Linted Entertainment 2005
True & Livin' (CD) Poems 4 Post Modern Decay Live Up Records 2005
True & Livin' (2xLP) Poems 4 Post Modern Decay Live Up Records 2005
Baaad Breaks Vol.01 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Crooked KSR 2006
Bassbin Twins vs. Marine Parade (CD, Mixed, Comp + CD, Comp) Crooked (Bassbin Twins... Marine Parade 2006
Brothaz / Take, Hold, Fire! (File, MP3) Take, Hold, Fire! Definitive Jux 2006
Cuts And Collabos Part 2 (CD, Album) Inner City Hustle Remix Raptivism 2006
Iron And Niacin (CD, Mixed) Alchemy (Remix) Weightless Recordings 2006
Mo' Mega (Album) ◄ (3 versions) Take, Hold, Fire! Definitive Jux 2006
Slow Suicide Stimulus (17xFile, MP3) Akinesia Definitive Jux 2006
Slow Suicide Stimulus (2xLP, Album) Akinesia FloSpot 2006
Slow Suicide Stimulus (CD, Album) Akinesia Flospot 2006
Stepping Stones The Self-Remixed Best ◄ (2 versions) Kill Switch (Beep Mix) Sony BMG Music Entertainment ... 2006
Stepping Stones The Self-Remixed Best -Lyricism- (Comp) ◄ (5 versions) Kill Switch (Beep Mix) Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) ... 2006
Back To The Grill, Again (CD, Mixed) Milkcrate Full Of Free... O.T.S. Entertainment 2007
Bloody Radio (CD, Album) The Office Rhymesayers Entertainment 2007
Bloody Radio (2xLP, Album) The Office Rhymesayers Entertainment 2007
I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Run The Numbers Definitive Jux 2007
Loosies: Remixes & Other Oddities (9xFile, MP3) Side Two (CCP Remix) Definitive Jux 2007
Most Likely To Succeed (CD, Album) Borrowedtime Cornerstone R.A.S., Legendary Music (US) 2007
Perseverance (Album) ◄ (3 versions) The Dirt And The Filth Stones Throw Records 2007
Perseverance: The Remix (CD, Album) The Dirt And Filth Stones Throw Records 2007
Sabotage Gigante (CD, Album) Smoke If You Got 'Um Definitive Jux 2007
Tasted By Chemists (CD, Album) Catch 22 Grimace Federation 2007
吹毛常磨 Suimou Tsunenimasu (3xDVD, NTSC, PAL, Ltd)   Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) 2007
Die Already (CD, Album) Afraid Of The Dark Sun... Camobear Records 2008
Die Already (Album) ◄ (2 versions) The Explanation Camobear Records 2008
Fucked Up Friends (LP, Album, Ltd) Dirt Anticon 2008
Fucked Up Friends (CD, Album) Dirt Anticon 2008
The Best I Can (12") Borrowed Time, Borrowe... Up Above Records 2008
Acid Tab Vocab (File, MP3, Album) Molly Amalgam Digital 2009
Of Cities (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Low Tide, Sink Or Swim Bully Records 2009
theFREEhoudini (Album) ◄ (3 versions) Know That To Know This Anticon 2009
Atlantis Sessions & The Deadly Art Of All Day Brainstorming (CD) Helium, Atlantis Mondrian Sound  
Galactic Snatchers (Cass, Mixed) Dry Bones (Remix) Antiwhack Production  
Hijack The Radio (Cass, Mixed) Put Your Quarter Up Audiomicid  
The One And Only : The Best Of Percee P (LP, Promo) Wake Up Call 85 Records  
Tracks Appear On:
Def Jux Presents... (CD) Kill 'Em All Definitive Jux 2000
Insideout Vol. 1 - A Fool Blown Compilation (CD) The Tugboat Complex Blown! Recordings 2000
Pimped Out (CD, Mixed) Labour Day RudeBWOY SoundSYSTEM REC., Earwaks 2000
Ropeladder 12 ◄ (2 versions) The Active Element Mush 2000
1st Adventure (Cass) Attention Span Not On Label 2001
Definitive Jux presents II (CD) Dead Pan Definitive Jux 2001
Definitive Jux presents II (2xLP) Dead Pan Definitive Jux 2001
Euphony (CD) Sinister, Water, Coma ... Centrifugal Phorce 2001
Mush Filmstrip (Frame 1) (CD) Big Bang Shadow Records 2001
New Voices Vol. 48 (CD, Comp, Car) No Regrets Rolling Stone (Germany) 2001
SPEX CD #12 (CD) 9-5ers Anthem Spex Magazine 2001
Tags Of The Times 3 (3xLP, Comp) Wise Up Mary Joy Recordings 2001
Tape #35 (Cass, Mix) Labor, Coma Not On Label (DJ BK Self-released) 2001
Brechtian Tactics (Cass, Mixed) Wise Up Vulgar 2002
Definite Jux Selection (CD) Daylight Breakin Point Magazine 2002
Documenta III (CD, Album, Comp, Dig) Daylight Agenda 2002
Documenta III (2xLP) Daylight Agenda 2002
Documenta III.I ◄ (2 versions) Maintenance Agenda 2002
Embedded Studios Presents: The Bedford Files ◄ (2 versions) Inner City Hustle, Tap... Embedded 2002
Favorite Cats: Custom CD For Johnny23 Heads Pt. 1 (CDr, Smplr) Apocalypse Zone Johnny23 Records 2002
Modern Mantra (CD) Skip Town, Dinner With... Shadow Records 2002
Modern Mantra Unmixed Vinyl Version (12") Skip Town Shadow Records 2002
Not Too Glitch (CDr) Train Buffer Bruits De Fond 2002
Tape #36 - Winter Warz Pt. 5 (Cass, Mix) Daylight Not On Label (DJ BK Self-released) 2002
Tape #37 (Cass, Mix) Night Light Not On Label (DJ BK Self-released) 2002
Urban Renewal Program (CD, Maxi) Train Buffer, Train Bu... Ninja Tune 2002
Urban Renewal Program (12") Train Buffer, Train Bu... Ninja Tune 2002
Urban Renewal Program ◄ (3 versions) Train Buffer Ninja Tune ... 2002
Donyurgasra?!? (Cass, Promo) Maintenance Carpetbombing Records 2003
Juice CD Volume 34 (CD) Freeze Juice Magazin 2003
Life Is Chic (CD, Smplr) Freez Plastiks Magazine 2003
Loose Ends (CD) Kill 'Em All Bustown Pride 2003
Mind The Gap Volume 46 (CD, Comp) 11:35 Gonzo Circus 2003
Nature Sounds Presents The Prof. In... Convexed (2xLP) Numb (To The Guns) Nature Sounds 2003
Politrixx (CDr, Mixed) Daylight Not On Label 2003
SPEX CD #34 (CD) Freeze Spex Magazine 2003
The Bastard EP (12") Dragon Coaster Wax Poetic Productions 2003
Underground Explorer v.1.0 (Cass, Mixed) Put Your Quarter Up LSD Production 2003
We Came From Beyond, Vol. 2 (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Miss By A Smile Razor & Tie 2003
Definitive Jux Presents III (CD + DVD) All In All, No Jumper ... Definitive Jux 2004
Definitive Jux Presents III (3xLP) All In All, No Jumper ... Definitive Jux 2004
Futurism Ain't Shit To Me ◄ (2 versions) Bent Life Kyo 2004
Instructions How To Draw Godzilla (CDr) Dead Pan Not On Label 2004
Random Vol. 3 / Sad Clown Bad Dub 7 (2xCD, Album) Acapella (Live @ The E... Rhymesayers Entertainment 2004
Remote Issue Three (DVD-V, Comp) Freeze Remote (2) 2004
Secouer Les Nouilles Volume 2 (CDr, Mixed) Wake Up Call Propaganda Recordings (2) 2004
The Wire Tapper 12 (2xCD, Comp) Fast Cars, Danger, Fir... Wire Magazine 2004
Trifecta - Underground Exclusives (CDr) Magic Not On Label 2004
Urban Renewal Program Supplement 1.5 ◄ (2 versions) Train Buffer (Aesop Ro... Chocolate Industries 2004
We Didn't Invent The Remix (CD, Promo) Limelighter Nature Sounds 2004
Atoms Family Archives Vol. 2 (CDr) Apology Centrifugal Phorce 2005
Baseck vs. SDR (CDr) Dead Pan Not On Label 2005
Definitive Jux 2005 Teaser (CD, Comp) Fast Cars Definitive Jux 2005
Definitive Jux Teaser 2005 (CD) Fast Cars Definitive Jux 2005
Definitive Jux and DJ Big Wiz of The Steelworkerz Present: The 48 Hour Miracle Mix (CD, Promo) Fast Cars, Facemelter HHC Magazine 2005
Definitive Jux presents Bucket of B-Sides Vol. 1 ◄ (2 versions) Kill 'Em All (RJD2 Remix) Definitive Jux 2005
Dreddy Kruger Presents...Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture (CD) Preservation Think Differently Music, Babygrande 2005
Little Movies, Big Noises (DVD + CD) No Jumper Cables, Free... Definitive Jux 2005
NBA 2K6: The Tracks ◄ (2 versions) Junkyard Decon 2005
Side: Two (Album, Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Side Two Embedded 2005
Reevalyouation (CD, Comp, Rem) All In All Not On Label 2006
Definitive Swim (File, MP3, 192) None Shall Pass (Clean) [adult swim], Definitive Jux 2007
Peanuts In Your Mouth (CDr, Comp) Water, The Active Elem... Not On Label (Blockhead Self-released) 2007
¬ 74 (CD, Comp) None Shall Pass Spex Magazine 2007
Any Given Friday Ost (Special Diyei Sens Series Vol 2) (File, MP3, Comp, Mixed) Keep Of The Law Not On Label 2008
Pas Dans Mon Ryhtme Mixtapes (Paris, 2008) (File, MP3) Big Bang Not On Label 2008
Definitive Jux Free Sampler (12xFile, MP3, Smplr, 256) Citronella Definitive Jux 2009
OSAKA Invasion CDr (CDr, Promo) No Jumper Cables Not On Label (deftype) 2009
Rough Trade Shops - Counter Culture 08 (2xCD, Comp) Dirt Counter Culture Records 2009
Angels And Insects (CD) Bad Karma Mondrian Sound  
Crumbs County Delights (Cass, Mixed) Kill Em All (RJD2 Remix) Antiwhack Production  
DJ Cip One - Mixed Dosage (CDr, Mixed, Alb) Water, Flash Flood Not On Label  
Definitive Jux Presents: The Juk(i)e Box - Version 1.0 (CD, Enh, Promo) N.Y. Electric (Snippet... Definitive Jux  
Hijack The Radio (Cass, Mixed) Kill Em All (RJD2 Remi... Audiomicid  
La Leçon!! (Cass, Mixed) Labor Not On Label  
The Horrorap Vault (Cass, Mixed) Drawbridge Antiwhack Production  
Unofficial Releases:
The Way Of The Fist Vol. 3 - Kill Jill (CDr, Comp) Tap Dancin For Scratch... I.G.C. Records 2004
The Way Of The Fist Vol. 4 - Rap Warz (CDr, Comp) Posse Slash, First Joi... I.G.C. Records 2004
The Way Of The Fist Vol.1 (Collabs & Classics) (CDr, Comp) Sinister Not On Label 2004
Way Of The Fist Vol. 2 - The Dark Sword Of Chaos (CDr, Comp) Attention Span I.G.C. Records 2004
Bazooka Tooth (Headphone Science Version) (File, MP3)   IVDT 2005
The Re-Cuts (File, MP3) The Greatest Pac-Man V... Carski Rez 2008
Ugly Mac Beer Invasion:The Unofficial MF Doom Mixtape (CD) Put Your Quarter Up DIESS Prod  
User Reviews:
Diocki, May 28, 2003

Hes a "cursed version of a certain virgin mary womb occupant," truly the prophetic son of God. Ironically, the man himself boasts about his own lethargic nature, and makes bold claims regarding his inability to partake in anything productive. His lyrics tell a different story, however, of a man who has absorbed himself in chromatic literature with the express intent of describing his world with a strong sensitivity towards the idioms that compose his microcosm. A true genius, likened to poets and philosophers that have contributed their own to shape the world we live in now. Not to be listened to, but to be understood, Ace Riggity-Rock.

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