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DANGER DOOM - The Mouse And The Mask
| Popmatters | | More often than not, highly-anticipated collaborations between musicians who are on the top of their game are perennially some of the most disappointing albums of the year. There's a natural expectation when two great artists are combined that they will produce something mind-blowingly transcendent that will change the way people look at music and life forever. The end result, however, more typically ends up being a stale sounding side-project that could never have lived up to the hype in the first place....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | There is no substitute for hard work. On his way to becoming the undisputed king of the underground, Daniel Dumile overcame the death of his brother, Subroc; industry censorship, with Electra's refusal to release his old group KMD's sophomore album, Black Bastards, in 1993; and a stint slumming it on the New York streets. He's been on the hip-hop grind since 1991 - be it as Zev Love X, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah, MF Doom or the Madvillain - and the man behind the metal mask has been straight prolific since reintroducing himself on his 2001 LP, Operation: Doomsday....full text |
| | AV Club | | MF Doom, Danger Mouse, and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim have each ascended to countercultural glory using the sum of popular culture as their outsized playpens, reconfiguring cartoon and comic-book iconography and/or old sounds into giddily ridiculous yet strangely fitting new arrangements. Collectively, they've transformed third-rate superheroes into attorneys and oblivious talk-show hosts, deadpan rappers with an endless reservoir of obscure pop-culture references into comic-book supervillains, and The Beatles and Jay-Z into unwitting collaborators....full text |
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