Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain CD/2LP

Back in 2003, during an incredible period of growth and reinvention for legendary artist MF DOOM, he introduced us to one of his numerous alter egos, Viktor Vaughn.

As the story goes, Viktor Vaughn was an interdimensional time-traveling MC from an alternate realm where Hip-Hop was banned. He’d been exploring time and space looking for new dimensions to sharpen him to 90s-era NYC, where he found himself stranded due to a mechanical mishap with his time machine. He began hitting open mics and small venues, battling other MCs and picking up a few side-hustles in order to raise enough funds to repair his time machine and get back to his travels.

Vaudeville Villain is a concept album like no other, where MF DOOM re-envisions himself as a younger, hungrier, more brazen persona, in order to explore subjects new and old from a different point of view. Of course, developing a second self from a more technologically advanced universe, he wanted to take a new approach to the production too. Viktor Vaughn fittingly raps over next-school beats that move freely in spaces between Electronica and Hip Hop, all courtesy of Sound-Ink producers King Honey, Heat Sensor and Max Bill, with the exception of one track produced by RJD2.

Featuring all original lyrics by DOOM, with a few notable guest appearances from M. Sayyid (Anti-Pop Consortium), Lord Sear, Apani B Fly MC, Louis Logic and more, "Vaudeville Villain" is one of the more uniquely creative entries in the MF DOOM universe.

Tracklist:

1. Overture
2. Vaudeville Villain
3. Lickupon
4. The Drop
5. Lactose and Lecithin
6. A Dead Mouse
7. Open Mic Night Part 1 [feat. Lord Sear, Brother Sambuca, Louis Logic and Rodan as Dr. Moreau]
8. Rae Dawn
9. Let Me Watch [feat. Apani B as Nikki]
10. Saliva
11. Modern Day Mugging
12. Open Mic Night Part 2 [feat. Lord Sear, AJ Ready Wright and Creature]
13. Never Dead [feat. M. Sayyid as Curtis Strifer]
14. Pop Snot
15. Mr. Clean
16. G.M.C.
17. Change the Beat

About this product: this reissue is available on CD and LP formats.

The LP is pressed on 2x silver vinyl.