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Track Listings
| 1. Intro |
| 2. 3000 |
| 3. I Got To Tell You |
| 4. Earth People |
| 5. No Awareness |
| 6. Real Raw |
| 7. General Hospital |
| 8. Blue Flowers |
| 9. Technical Difficulties |
| 10. A Visit To The Gynecologyst |
| 11. Bear Witness |
| 12. Dr. Octagon |
| 13. Girl Let Me Touch You |
| 14. I'm Destructive |
| 15. Wild And Crazy |
| 16. Elective Surgery |
| 17. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman |
| 18. Blue Flowers Revisited |
| 19. Waiting List (DJ Shadow/Automator Mix) |
| 20. 1977 |
Product Description
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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 Levin
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Snarf
Format:Audio CD
What an album. For something released in 1996 this sounds miles ahead of its time, and still does. Kool Keith raps as his Dr.Octagon persona, adding a medical twist to his usual diet of porn and insanity lyrics. Acclaimed as his best album, his seemingly nonsensical battle rapping is as great and original as ever, with his speedy but watertight flow and sick, cryptic, twisted rhymes ranging from pop culture references, dark and nasty porn/horror imagery and out-and-out weirdness. What really shines on this album is the production however. Automator's trademark futuristic sci-fi style is here, plus the kind of dark, menacing horror samples kinda like KK's other long time beatmaker Kutmasta Kurt. As with most Automator stuff there's nothing repetetive on here, just unique, varied, unpredictable genius that as dark and disturbing as it is sonically impressive, with beats meaty enough to satisfy the most hardcore rap fans. Plus with great cuts from THE best scratch DJ Q-Bert, this is a completely timeless must have album from the darker, weirder end of hip-hop's spectrum.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've read the other reviews with interest, because this album really is either love it or hate it. My mates listen to it (DJ Shadow fans) and think i'm mad to rate it so highly.
I first heard of Dr Octogon on a James Lavelle album called Cram Live 2, which is also worth a mention. Blue Flowers was on, so I tracked down this album. I recon i've listened to it about 10,000 times, and for those who thought it was pants, well you haven't a clue. The lyrics border on amazing, if you actually listen to the words, it is possibly incredible what he speaks. I think perhaps someone should look inside his head!
But anyway, i've now got every Dr Octogon, Kool Keith, Dan the Automator and all the others that feature this chap. Buy it!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It is very difficult to put across how i feel about this album. I guess ill have to put it on the scale of rap originality. On which it is 25 out of 10. But originality doesnt make it good. It could be an original piece of excrement. But what makes it good is its meticulous concoction of hellish production, mellifluos cuts and the indelible, indefatigable, totally indescrible rhymes of Kool Keith. His lyrics are unknown to the hiphop culture. His flow is not continuos or nursery ryhme like. He is not a foolish gangsta rapper oblivious to his duties as an artist. He is a word contorter, he warps the english language into incredulous clauses. He talks about playing astronauts tough like the ukelele. He is HalfSharkAlligatorHalfman. He is Dr octagon.
His apprentice in crime Dan the Automator destroys the ethics of producing and builds them up again. DJ Q-berts slices the traks with magical, intrevenous fingers to produce magnificent cuts. I also like this album because Dr octagon has a erotic side to him. He puts his testorone driven urges to paper in delicious sentences. "Girl Let Me Touch You" is one of the best songs on the album because of this.
Dr Octagon has many sides to him; he can insult lesser emcees like in "Real Raw", he can create the master gene like in "No Awareness", he can change into halfsharkalligatorhalfman as in" Halfsharkalligatorhalfman" or he can simply have fun in "Dr octagon" and "Wild and Crazy".
I think thats how he sees rap, as fun and it is. It can be anything any artist good enuf wants it to be. Dr octagon to me is an embellishment of 3 musical malvelolences. Kool Keith is the gothic yet comical skull, Dan the Automator is the white gloves that Keith uses to probe and morph songs into twisted melodies.
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By M. A. Birch
Format:Audio CD
Kool Keith at his super wierd best. The Automator with sci-fi beats and production. World champion scratch DJ Q-Bert with some unbeleivable scratching (Visit to the Gynecologyst). The skits are highly original and very funny, from the moment the intro sinks in you know this record is special. A must have for hip hop fans and, since it really is peerless a must have for anyone else who likes a break from the norm. Everyone should have a doctor like this ;-)
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Kool Keith has become the Salvadore Dali of rap. Since hearing a copy of this album(a few times),I went out and bought it. It didn't take long for me to start searching out almost everything else Kool Keith has ever spat out on to DAT.It's really infectious stuff, once you find yourself on his wavelength its pretty hard to detune and start thinking normally again. If you've never heard of Kool Keith, this is a good place to start. This album not only appeals to hip-hop fans, it also finds its way in to allsorts of peoples hands(even those who usually hate rap music).If you allready own this and would like to hear more of the same(well similar),then Kool Keiths Black-Elvis/Lost-in-space is highly recommended, If its old skool then check out Ultramagnetic MC's Critical-Beatdown. Warren
By idl
Format:Audio CD
...The perfect enzyme is me with your brain in my other hand. Scarily good beats from Nakamura - the Instrumentalyst is amazing in its own right - and just plain scary rhymes from Thornton. This is a great album from start to finish and can't fail to put a smile on the face of anyone who likes hip hop!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Genius
Possibly the greatest underground hip hop album ever, Kool Keith's flow and Automator's beats marry together perfectly.
Published on 4 Mar 2010 by Minto1981
2.0 out of 5 stars
Over-rated...
This album isn't terrible, though it certainly isn't a classic and doesn't deserve the props that it has got. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unmissable - an all-time classic !
One of the funniest albums ever released with some of the phattest beats this side of Jupiter, superb production, witty if sick lyrics and unbelievable scratching by Automator - a... Read more
Published on 28 July 2000
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is messed up fun
I think this is a fantastic album. Not happy and nicey but dark and nasty - but with a funny twist. This is the kind of thing you want to sit around late at night with some friends... Read more
Published on 31 May 2000
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