Aesop - Living the Dream While Awake

(Aesop from Living Legends, not Aesop Rock...)

Finally, his 2006 album that has been finished, shelved, then much of it re-recorded, then released in very small quantities, then shelved again, then new material was recorded for....blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....the album is finally available for pre-oder for release 9/1.

See message from Access Hip-Hop:

""Living the Dream while Awake" is the very, very long-awaited new album from Aesop of the Living Legends, finally ready for release! The album in its final form has a lot of tracks newly recorded (not on the leaked versions). Features Slug (of Atmosphere), Del The Funky Homosapien (of Hieroglyphics), Eligh & Bicasso (of Living Legends) and General Populous of Hop & Pop (Broken Complex)."



http://www.accesshiphop.com/store/?itemid=7404

sounds dope alan, can you give me a rec on an aesop album before i try this one out?

Sinj.of.SA wrote:

sounds dope alan, can you give me a rec on an aesop album before i try this one out?

Have you ever heard him before?

This is his 7th full length album, but I'd say check out it's predecessor "Black Libra" from 2002. I'd give that one 4.5-5 stars personally. Still my favorite.

I like his old stuff a lot too. But he did not get the best production/engineering on some of it. My favorite from that era would be his 1997 album "Tha SupaHuman". Elusive produces that one, and I really dig his minimal soundscapes on that one (and much of his material from that era). Even if the sound isn't as superb...it's definitely good enough for me to give it 4-4.5 stars. I'd still go for "Black Libra" first though.

Dope cover

Shouldve gave us a link. Ya know were too broke to pay for a 10.00 CD

Dang! Trotter wrote:

Shouldve gave us a link. Ya know were too broke to pay for a 10.00 CD

LOL - it hasn't dropped yet anyway. If you find a leak, it's most likely an unmastered, not-final album. A lot of changes have been made to it.