Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
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Artist: Dr. OctagonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-04-29
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- 3000
- I Got to Tell You
- Earth People
- No Awareness
- Real Raw
- General Hospital
- Blue Flowers
- Technical Difficulties
- Visit to the Gynecologyst
- Bear Witness
- Dr. Octagon
- Girl Let Me Touch You
- I'm Destructive
- Wild and Crazy
- Elective Surgery
- Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
- Blue Flowers Revisited
- Waiting List [DJ Shadow/Automator Mix]
- 1977
Music reviews of Dr. Octagonecologyst
Music Review: Epic and Underrated Hip Hop Classic (7O97556EL3 Computer File 9-3 / 5 Stars)
Rating: 5 Stars
The first time I heard this record I was like "... what ... the... hell..." but the more I listened to this album the more endearing it became to me. I think I've had to re-buy it 2 or 3 times before I converted it to digital format.
Dan the Automator's beats on this record are wonderful because they're so diverse. In addition to the songs on the record there's a good amount of segues/interludes that feature music over skits. The rapping on this album is great because:
1. Kool Keith is an excellent rapper
2. Kool Keith writes some of the weirdest lyrics I've ever heard on this album.
This album is full of winners. I think the tracks that stand out the most are "3000", "Earth People", "Real Raw", "Blue Flowers"... I'm just gonna stop because I'll end up spilling out more than half the track listing as favorite tracks by the time I'm done. It's overwhelmingly unique in a genre that's packed with imitators. The work these guys do transcends the genre itself and ultimately produced a record that's worth being heard by everyone.
There's never been another hop hop album (aside from The Roots's Phrenology) that's made me so enthusiastic about the genre. It was also the first hip hop album to make me look at the genre as an artform as opposed to a commercial vehicle for the industry to make money. So yeah, if you got an open mind and can be brave enough to venture into the twisted world of Dr. Octagon, you won't be disappointed if you jump on in.
Description of Dr. Octagonecologyst
Maybe it was that downtime at Creedmoor Mental Hospital, but after he tuned out following the breakup of the hardheaded seminal hip-hop group the Ultramagnetic MCs, something must have flipped Kool Keith's wig like a mescaline pizza. I can think of no other way to explain the mutant birth of Dr. Octagonecologyst. Literally assuming another personality on this record, Dr. Octagon--Kool Keith on the mike, with Dan "The Automater" Nakamura producing--transmits unearthly rhymes like tractor beams to your cranium. Then he squirms around in there, grabs some Vaseline from your medicine cabinet, and does a little dance. The first time you listen to cuts like "Earth People" and "Blue Flowers," you might have to change the way you listen to hip-hop. The standards are the same--verse, chorus, verse, with plenty of nasty skits in the middle--and there are electro-beat shades of his predecessors, such as Afrika Baambaata, but the wordplay and beat compositions are truly light years from most hip-hop. Listening to this album is like trying to read the glyphs from Stargate. --Todd LevinTrip-Hop CDs
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