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Radio Rackham: MF DOOM


Engraved or unmarked? Radio Rackham rister en rune over Daniel Dumile alias MF DOOM, der døde 31 oktober sidste år. Det sker naturligvis fordi han på så kreativ vis indarbejdede tegneserierne i sit musikalske og lyriske univers, særlig i forhold til Jack Kirbys og Stan Lees fantastiske figur, Doctor Doom, superskurken over dem alle. Ikke nok med det, ved at iføre sig en metalmaske ligesom sit fiktive forbillede, tilføjede MF DOOM karakteren helt nye dimensioner. DOOMs univers er personligt, politisk og poetisk på en måde, der er uden sidestykke i hip hop.

DOOMs alt for tidlige død har påvirket mig mere end jeg troede det ville og det var fint at kunne mindes ham på den her måde, ikke mindst fordi det skete i selskab med en gammel frænde fra hip hop-miljøet, Peter Trier Aagard, alias PTA, der som altid leverer varen. Det var fantastisk på den måde at koble nutid og datid, tegneserier og hip hop. Læs mere på Nummer9 og Lyt her:

The Week

The week in review

Not much to report from this angle this week, apart from the fact that the Jewish new year reminds me that I’ve been back in the ole home country for over a year now. Last year’s Rosh Hashannah kind of marked a fresh return to new beginnings here and it’s been a great ride since then, one of the best years I’ve had. Thanks to everybody taking part.

Links!

  • I would like to supplement this week’s welcome announcement that Fantagraphics is going to publish Ed Piskor’s online comic The Hip Hop Family Tree with this interview with Piskor, conducted by my man PTA on said piece of edutainment.
  • Also in comics, the Hooded Utilitarian’s five-year Anniversary of Hate! has brought some good criticism to the table. I liked in particular Steven Grant’s essay on bad comics and why the field still makes sense as a vocation. Plus! HU has reprinted Ng Suat Tong’s notorious Comics Journal essay from 2003 on why the EC New Trend comics are among the most overrated in the canon, supplemented by a back-and-forth on the issue with R. Fiore.
  • Other (more!) comics-related links: Slavoj Žižek on The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Spurgeon on Dave Sim’s recent, depressing letter of resignation, Chris Ware on display in New York.
  • Meanwhile in hip hop, I really enjoyed what El-P had to say about Nas’ classic debut album Illmatic (1993) in this otherwise rather dumb list of best albums of the nineties, and I totally dug this video of a young Kanye West rapping with his mom.