This week check out of the collaboration ‘DangerDoom’ which is a collaboration of DJ Dangermouse, and MF Doom. I took interest at first by the masked mouse illustration, and when I started absorbing the smooth old school beat with the clever, sometimes humorous, sometimes too sharp rhymes, and read up on a little bit of the background story driving the cartoonish aesthetics, it was obvious this should be music of the week.
DJ Dangermouse is a producer whom I first heard of when he combined Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ with the Beatles ‘White Album’, creating the Grey Album.. which was pretty interesting. He also has worked with Gnarls Barkley, and the Gorillaz who are famous for appearing only as their cartoon character incarnations in videos and even a ridiculously elaborate .
So this collaboration is with one, MF Doom. The ‘Doom’ in his name references supervillain Doctor Doom because of their similar masks. After reportedly going through some hard times he re-emerged on the scene in NY masked.
Image taken from hiptics.com
MF Doom is an underground lyricist with some sharp rhymes, combined with the unexpected beats, and on top of everything for the shroud of mystery. They get my stamp of ‘awesome’ approval.
Check out their dangerdoom site and myspace and hear a couple tracks:
- enjoy!
Tags: Awesome, Dangermouse, Fresh, Masks, MF Doom, Music of the Week, Mystery, Raw, Rhymes, Songwriter