Toronto Urban Music Festival 2009

Wednesday, January 27
REMG Entertainment and TUMF Urban Music Week present:
The Return…Doom featuring Mos Def
with special guests D-Sisive and Mix Tape Massacre
Kool Haus, 132 Queen’s Quay East
(All Ages, 8:00 p.m. doors, 9:00 p.m. show.)

Tickets: $39.50 (plus any additional fees) in advance and available at Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes, Play De Record and Ransom.

This event is presented in association with TUMF’s Urban Music Week.

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Patterning his persona and logo after the Marvel Comics supervillain Dr. Doom, the man behind MF (Metal Face) Doom's iron mask is actually Daniel Dumile. Dumile has taken on several stage names in his career - originally ZevLove X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers and Viktor Vaughn.

As ZevLove X, he formed the group KMD. The group is seen today as a part of the genre of conscious hip hop, along with labelmates Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers, and early De La Soul. Following a split from his record label, Zev went underground for five years and resurfaced in 1997 at an open mic. Few people knew that the imaginative MC freestyling with a stocking over his face, using the new identity MF DOOM was the former Zev.

The release of Operation: Doomsday in 1999 marked the official turning point for Dumile in his reinvention and was an underground success. In 2003, two albums were released under new aliases, Viktor Vaughn’s Vaudeville Villain, and King Geedorah's Take Me To Your Leader. DOOM's first commercial breakthrough came in 2004, with the Madvillain album Madvillainy together with producer Madlib. The album was a critical and commercial success and received publicity and acclaim in publications such as Rolling Stone, New York Times, The New Yorker, and Spin. In 2005 MF DOOM released The Mouse and the Mask, with producer Danger Mouse under the group name DangerDoom.

Taking the Kool Haus stage with Doom will be self-confessed Doom fan, Mos Def. Don’t miss out on seeing these two amazing artists on stage together in this one-off unprecedented performance, which is sure to be the hip-hop show of the year.

See MF Doom at Urban Music Week 2010