Dumile-as-Geedorah then simply hit the drum pads and placed an Invasion of the Astro-Monster soundbite to herald his touchdown.īut that purist detail doesn’t change the fact that “Fazers” is my favorite song in the DOOM universe, canon, consortium, what have you. Mason looped some strings in a vintage porn scene that would come to comprise the beat’s melody. In DOOM’s own words, apparently Geedorah’s co-producer E. Yet I’d be remiss to not acknowledge the irony of my preamble, in that the metal fingers apparently didn’t source or chop this song’s main loop themselves. Its muddily-sampled grandeur, unmistakably DOOM-like, broadcasts the earthly arrival of a 3-headed reptile from outer space, probably materializing through a duct-taped transporter deck, with three ashed blunts for each mouth on the center console. Dumile in his King Geedorah incarnation, and center in on his track “Fazers,” the classic intro that begins his 2003 Take Me to Your Leader.
He channeled that pain and left us with a blueprint of self-mythologizing to rival Sun Ra himself, with a plush collection of gems and nuggets to sort through. It’s the accepted tale that DOOM’s compulsive ambling together of nostalgia and pop culture through decades and scores of releases was his retro-fitted reconstruction of the self as many selves- the many heads and egos we are all tripping over as we try to commemorate his life and times.Īs has been explained and theorized in many a biography and obituary, the death of his brother Subroc and the shelving of their group’s sophomore record were the seeming catalytic events for his break from the limelight, then masked return to the mic and deeper dive to the nerdy and whacky ends of the CRT receiver and record (and tape) bins.
#KING GEEDORAH FAZERS OGRE MOVIE#
He is up there with the early pioneers who lassoed jazz and funk into a pillar of its own those who draped their self-mythologizing in kung fu movie cutouts or the artists who reworked rock riffs to semi-intentionally play with the color line of an increasingly corporate outlook on hip-hop among many other virtuosos, schools and disciplines. As one of the most uncaged and inspiring rappers and writers to use this mongrel language of English and appropriate its global cultural footprint, you’d be a fool to not also take the supervillain as a master of his particular school of digging and sampling.ĭOOM siphoned and commandeered comic book and cartoon ephemera, sci-fi and pulp fiction fragments as an expert collagist. MF DOOM, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah, Zev Love X, Metal Fingers, the Metal Face Terrorist, you know, one of the all-time greats in his amalgamated selves.
Rhys Langston been rhyming longer than Sigmund the sea creature.ĭo not resist the urge to bemoan the easiness of pre-fab sound packs, YouTube-search sample rips, and DAW magic tricks bordering laziness- at least not while we’re fresh in the wake of Daniel Dumile’s passing. Please support the ring generals at Passion of the Weiss by subscribing to our Patreon.
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