Wed 20 Aug – Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz
It’s rather amusing that anytime Ian Matthias Bavitz, aka Aesop Rock is on YouTube or on stage, he appears to have just rolled out of bed. This appearance makes sense of his lyrics like, ‘I show up late looking project grizzly,’ but it doesn’t give a good indication of what his performances will be like. Despite his sometimes inaccessibly Dadaistic lyrics and incomprehensibly fast flows Aesop Rock brought the crowd at DC’s 9:30 club to frenzied levels of energy last night (even more than earlier this year at Coachella).
With the energy Rock and his partners in crime, Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz emanated, the crowd was able to amp the performance of the Def Jux crew with shear excitement and well…wylin’ out. It’s this exchange of enthusiasm that separates the good hip-hop shows from the average and Aesop Rock and co. were definitely above par. That is not to say, however, the performance was without its flaws.
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It’s rather amusing that anytime Ian Matthias Bavitz, aka Aesop Rock is on YouTube or on stage, he appears to have just rolled out of bed. This appearance makes sense of his lyrics like, ‘I show up late looking project grizzly,’ but it doesn’t give a good indication of what his performances will be like. Despite his sometimes inaccessibly Dadaistic lyrics and incomprehensibly fast flows Aesop Rock brought the crowd at DC’s 9:30 club to frenzied levels of energy last night (even more than earlier this year at Coachella).
With the energy Rock and his partners in crime, Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz emanated, the crowd was able to amp the performance of the Def Jux crew with shear excitement and well…wylin’ out. It’s this exchange of enthusiasm that separates the good hip-hop shows from the average and Aesop Rock and co. were definitely above par. That is not to say, however, the performance was without its flaws.
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