THOM YORKE REMIXES DOOM

DOOM is one of my favourite hip hop artists right now (and has been for a while).

His new album, Born Like This, is on fairly high rotation at the moment (mostly late Thursday nights when I'm on the train home from work) so it's fair to say that I'm digging it a lot. I'm not in the mood for going into long descriptions about how amazing it is, so you'll just have to take my word for it (or scope out his MySpace) but one of the things that is really, really cool about this album is that one of the tracks on it has been remixed by the god that is at the top of my pantheon of music gods, Thom Yorke.

I'm not really sure how he would feel about being classified as a god, but hey, he can deal with it...

The Vine said this of the collaboration:

"US-based hip-hop producer Doom is a prolific and multifaceted man. Going under various other monikers (Viktor Vaughn, Zev Love X, King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, MF Doom and the Supervillain) and working on various collaborations (Madvillain and Danger Doom), he has been at the hip-hop game for some twenty years. But unlike most veterans in, say, rock, Doom has moved further and further into left-field as he ages. This year's Born Like This LP has already been claimed as another odd, slanted and engrossing transmission from whichever planet this dude currently resides. And along came Thom Yorke. He has taken "Gazillion Ear," one of the album's highlights, and let the colours run. Or, rather, bled the colours out of it. Doom's trademark fumbling flow remains fully in place, but Yorke has dropped the warm soul backing for a cloud of synths, rich in harmonics. It's a striking, if somewhat predictable, combination. The reduction of the soul drums to glitching beats loses some of the grit that complements Doom's reedy vocals. But, rather than merely distill, Yorke has also added - looming, dissonant vocal lines that give the track an apocalyptic air missing from the original. (Same old Yorke, summoning the apocalypse again!)"

You can also listen to the remixed track at the link above.


Born Like This is out now in Australia through Inertia records.