As a result of such freewheeling you’ve got releases credited to Dumile as MF DOOM, his solo work from before he dropped the MF (which most commonly stands for Metal Face in reference to his mask, or Metal Fingers when he’s producing) King Geedorah, a three headed leviathan from outer space Viktor Vaughn, a separate alias also culled from Marvel Comics’ Dr Doom supervillain (full name Victor Von Doom) and a string of full-length collaborations with the likes of Stones Throw progeny Madlib (as Madvillain), uber producer Dangermouse (as DANGERDOOM) and jazz twisting beat scientist Jneiro Jarel (as JJ DOOM).ĭOOM’s someone whose music I could listen to for hours, even if you had to forego his raps and just listen to his production work and his nine Special Herbs instrumental albums – which I’ve done, a lot, before. And that’s the real joy of him – aside from the fact that he wears a bastardized Gladiator mask on record covers and in public appearances – the guy thinks about his craft constantly and cares enough to invent different characters, storylines and narratives for each of his projects, often flicking between these personalities on individual tracks.
It wasn’t really a ‘pop’ moment in any traditional kind of sense but it certainly tipped the hip-hop mainstream off to Dumile’s work as MF DOOM (a name inspired by the Fantastic Four’s masked arch enemy, Dr Doom) and a solo catalogue that stretched back to 1999 and his bonafide classic debut album, Operation Doomsday.Īs an artist DOOM’s still wildly unpredictable but (on record at least) he’s incredibly reliable, repeatedly proving himself to be one of those rappers whose work you have to have the moment it comes out, no matter what name he puts it out under. But even that was a wayward, slapdash swirl of blunted jazz loops and Dumile’s wonderfully skewed rhyming couplets. His Stones Throw-released 2004 album, Madvillainy – a record made completely in collaboration with Californian producer, Madlib – was his first proper critical and commercial success. His music, released under his unique range of guises, has an impossible number of high watermarks. It’s actually really hard to try and fully convey the full magnitude and influence of infamous British-born rapper Daniel Dumile.
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