#molemen

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Once in a while you get the itch to learn more of a specific artist or band because you’re missing out, and maybe you should’ve got with the program like everyone else had since day one. “Put Your Quarter Up” came as one of many finds of all things MF DOOM I looked for. This, like Madlib’s “America’s Most Blunted” (2003), also came at the exact same time and in the same group of finds as well. Three components of Slug, Aesop Rock (Def Jux), and DOOM all pony up one complimentary verse each with a hat tip to the video arcades and classic titles of wayback. Twenty years later, all three would come together for the sequel single “Barcade” to close out Atmosphere’s 2021′s WORD? album, with that cut named after a walk-in hybrid bar and pinball / video arcade. That would also be the very last appearance of MF DOOM on wax before his untimely death on Halloween, 2020.

[How ya doin’?]

I always liked the idea of Molemen as a pulp concept, but there weren't a lot of Public Domain takes on it that I cared for (There was one I came across by Charles Diffen, but I find his work incredibly boring and I didn't even bother to read it). Instead, I decided to make my own race of Mole-Folk based on the features of star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. They're an intelligent and technologically advanced species that lives within the vast caverns that honeycomb the Earth's crust. I imagine them wearing clothing, but I just felt like designing the anatomy for now.

L Da Headtoucha - Violate

“Molemen of Hyrule”