Danger Doom
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| Danger Doom | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Hip hop |
| Years active | 2005—present |
| Label(s) | Epitaph Records/ Rhymesayers Entertainment/ Warner Music Group (2006-present) / Lex Records |
| Website | Danger Doom.com |
| Members | |
| MF Doom Danger Mouse |
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Danger Doom (officially capitalized as DANGERDOOM) is a musical collaboration between DJ and producer Danger Mouse and rapper MF Doom. Their first album, The Mouse and the Mask, was released in 2005, and followed by the Occult Hymn EP, available for free download from the Adult Swim website.[1]
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[edit] Background
Danger Mouse and MF Doom had previously collaborated on Danger Mouse's remix of Zero 7's "Somersault" and on the track "November Has Come" from Gorillaz' second studio album, Demon Days.
MF Doom has stated that he hopes there would be a second Danger Doom album in which he would "rap from the perspective of the cartoons and in their voices, rather than simply create stories around them".[2]
Much of Danger Doom's music has been filled with material from and endorsed by Adult Swim, a block of animated television shows airing on cable's Cartoon Network.
Master Shake, Frylock, Meatwad, Carl Brutananadilewski, Ignignokt, and Err from the Adult Swim television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force all make appearances on The Mouse and the Mask. References to other Adult Swim shows are found in the song "El Chupa Nibre," in which the voices of Brak (from Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Brak Show) and Lois Griffin (from Family Guy) are heard. Both the song's title and its lines "Chew an MC like El Chupa Nibre/Digest a group and sell the poop on eBay" reference the show Futurama. Two songs, "Perfect Hair" and "A.T.H.F.", are direct references on the shows from which they derive their names, "Perfect Hair Forever" and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". The song "Sofa King" is also an Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference. It features the Aqua Teen Hunger Force cast and BillyWitchDoctor.com from the episode "Video Ouija."
Both MF Doom and Danger Mouse are devoted fans of the animated block, and MF Doom's label, Stones Throw, works closely with Adult Swim. In October 2006, the two entities jointly released a CD/DVD compilation called Chrome Children.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Mouse and the Mask | Epitaph Records |
| 2006 | Occult Hymn | Adult Swim |
[edit] Singles
| Title | Release date | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Sofa King" | November 4, 2005 | The Mouse and The Mask |
| "Old School" | July 10, 2006 | The Mouse and The Mask |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Dangerdoom.com (official site)
- MySpace profile www.myspace.com/dangerdoom
- Epitaph (U.S. Label site)
- Lex Records (non-US Label site)
- Occult Hymn EP (Free download)
- Waxploitation (Management Company)
- Dangerdoom "ATHF" Video on adultswim.co.uk
