| 1. Intro |
| 2. 3000 |
| 3. I Got To Tell You |
| 4. Earth People |
| 5. No Awareness |
| 6. Technical Difficulties |
| 7. General Hospital |
| 8. Blue Flowers |
| 9. A Visit To The Gynecologyst |
| 10. Bear Witness |
| 11. Dr. Octagon |
| 12. Girl Let Me Touch You |
| 13. I'm Destructive |
| 14. Wild And Crazy |
| 15. Elective Surgery |
| 16. On Production |
| 17. Biology 101 |
| 18. Earth People |
| 19. Waiting List |
Dr Octagon,Dr. Octagon,City Hall Records,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues
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Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon Manufacturer: Dreamworks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005AM7 Release Date: 1997-04-29 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- 3000
- I Got To Tell You
- Earth People
- No Awareness
- Real Raw
- General Hospital
- Blue Flowers
- Technical Difficulties
- A 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
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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 LevinCustomer Reviews:
asdf.......2007-05-07
Kool Keith pwns.......2007-01-16
What is there to say that hasn't already been said?.......2006-10-18
There isn't a moment on this album that Keith, under his Dr. Octagon alias, is even close to being sane; the stuff he spits is so outrageous, and so absurd, that even if you lived your life as a continuous acid trip, this album would still fly over your head like the UFOs Keith's so obsessed with. When he does the chorus to "Earth's People," spitting "Earth's people, New York and California, earth's people, I was born on Jupiter," he'll literally leave you scratching your temple for days on end, pondering what the heck he just said.
Yet he's so dope on the microphone, it doesn't matter. Track after track, he comes correct with tight, albeit off-beat flows, with intricate rhymes about the most random of things. On No Awareness, he opens the song with "Your organic medical talk propels off my arms, the atom bomb final Lionel Richie not couth for this battle. I battle sing-sing-sing like bing-bing-bing," and understanding that is next to impossible. Sometimes Keith doesn't even bother to rhyme, yet his flow will have you thinking otherwise, as he never loses it throughout this release.
The production is absolutely phenomenal. Dan The Automator is clearly one of the best behind the boards, and doesn't get the proper credit he deserves in most hip-hop circles. The production is eery, and the science-fiction influences are heavy; much like Keith's rhymes themselves. There is not a single bad piece of music on this album, from either the emcee or his producer; creating a masterpiece which, unfortunately for Keith, greatly overshadows his enormous catalogue.
While Keith may've disowned the Dr. Octagon alias due to this album's success, and not attracting the audience he'd wanted, that doesn't change the fact that this as original an album as you'll find in any form of music. Recommended to any hip-hop head with an open mind.
Some Earth People Will Feel Alienated..........2006-07-19
Dr. Octagon is a groundbreaking release that is best enjoyed after countless listens. The best records are the ones you have to go back over and decipher new meanings. Never one to waste a rhyme, Keith opens up with "3000" on some bugged out wordplay, "Channels and handles Automator's on the panels/ turnin knobs you slobs suckers like Baskin Robs/carvel don't tell your whole crew is ice cream fudge/rappers that budge makin moves step in grooves/and ride the pace like at thirty-three dark shades/ now you seein me/ rap moves on to the year three thousand". Just a few bars of his breathless liners doesn't do the space alien gynocologist much justice. You could spend your whole summer vacation trying to get a grasp on these otherworldly phrases.
Even with the off the wall lyricism, the album wouldn't be the nearly enjoyable experience if it wasn't for Dan Automators genius turntable techniques and sci-fi horror backdrops. Just peep "Halfsharkhalfalligatorman" (long winded title!) and the incredible "Blue Flowers" for proof! The album is just filled with surprises at every corner. However, no other song on Dr. Octagon captivated me more than "Girl, Let Me Touch You". To this day, it stands as one of my personal all-time favorite non-singles on any hip hop record. Automators production is effortlessly hypnotic, Keith's persona is as abstact as ever, and no matter what mood I was in...the song would just set things straight.
In conclusion, Dr. Octagon is a stone cold classic. I don't care how many non-believers this record sparked. So what if he's different. His individuality separates Keith from the rest. How many emcees have the ability to go as far to credit "Kelly Wootang" on drums and "Curt Kobane" on vocals (you should be buggin' out with those references). Besides, too many hip hop records take themselves way too seriously with yet far too many more gimmicks. Kool Keith doesn't care. He wouldn't take sides, regarding the Tupac Biggie beef. He would rather diss both of them and be done with it (Pluckin' Cards ring a bell)? Keith would put out some good material after this, but after "Sex Styles", there was far too much B.S. Hell, even DJ Shadow got in on one cut and this was the same year he put out the timeless, "Endtroducin'". Grab this record anyway you can before it criminally goes out of print.
One of the greatest.......2006-05-19
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The Return of Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagon Manufacturer: Ocd Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FI8LXA Release Date: 2006-06-27 |
Tracks:
- Our Operators Are Masturbating
- Trees
- Aliens
- Ants
- Don't Worry Mz Pop Music
- Perfect World
- The Turtle Skit
- Al Green
- A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck
- Got Any Kids?
- Doctor Octagon
- It's The Morning
- Jumpstart
- Eat It
Album Description
At last, the official sequel to Dr. Octagon featuring Kool Keith, One Watt Sun, DJ Dexter and Princess SuperstarThe Return Of Dr. Octagon is the follow-up to Kool Keith's 1996 critically acclaimed Dr. Oncagonecoloyst (Dream Works), a psychedelic hip-hop concept album about a deadly, libidinous and doped-up doctor.
Return of Dr.Octagon is deeper, funkier and more spaced out than the original album. This time around Keith's groundbreaking mic skills and schizophrenic imagination compliment the mysterious production and collaborators. Dr. Octagon has reinvented himself covering a broad lyrical range that includes everything from socially conscious sermonizing to intergalactic martian fables.
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dr. octa-shit.......2007-02-11
get project polaroid if you want anything in the same vein as the stuff keith did with kutmasta kurt, which is really the only good stuff he's done.
Two worn-down turntables and a microphone the size of an elephant's trunk.......2007-02-01
suckas........2006-11-18
Someone has been pushing the rumor that this is not legit. or intended by Keith. I guess he hates it so much he made a video for "aliens" which I saw the other day on NY Noise, which features the artist throughout and credits the label. the rumor of illegitmacy must be false, and intended to keep suckas away from the album. Keith has always been into anticommercial maneuvers --recall the subject matter of Dr. Octagynocologist. The "loyalists" leaving 1 and 2 star reviews are --refer to title of review.
Garbage Album.......2006-11-08
Bad. Don't Buy........2006-10-25
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The Instrumentalyst (Octagon Beats)
Dr. Octagon Manufacturer: Dreamworks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005AM9 Release Date: 1997-04-29 |
Tracks:
- 3000
- Moosebumps
- Earth People
- Real Raw
- No Awareness
- Blue Flowers
- Technical Difficulties
- A Visit To The Gynecologyst
- Bear Witness (Extended Version)
- Dr. Octagon
- Girl Let Me Touch You
- I'm Destructive
- Tricknology 101
- Wild And Crazy
- Blue Flowers Revisited
- Waiting List
- On Production
Customer Reviews:
Sweet beats (it rhymes you see).......2005-08-24
I might buy the original Dr. Octagon with MC Paul Barman's album, since they come bundled together. Maybe.
If you like spacey Hip-Hop beats, get this. If you don't like Rap, try this! It's not Rap, its well-crafted Hip-Hop compositions and the love-child of Automator's production genius and Kool Keith's insane influence.
Hah, bet you can't rap over this........2005-03-18
But, other than that, it's real good and worth to hear if you want some instrumentals. I realize some people actually just wanted the instrumentals, but personally I prefer hearing Kool Keith's lyrics... I just somehow get in the mood to drop them because they were meant to be there, anyways. If you like this sorta thing, recommended you go to Automator's albums or something.
But, Kool Keith has alot more instrumental albums on his own as well if you were satisfied with Blue Flowers or Girl Let Me Touch You, his parts of production.
"Let me show you something.".......2004-09-23
Also recommended:
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Dan the Automator: Deltron 3030/Tron 3030 - The Instrumentals
DJ Qbert: Wave Twisters
Keyword: Instrumentalyst.......2003-07-16
Spaceman Cometh.......2003-04-13
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Dr. Octagon Part 2
Kool Keith ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00063MAZY |
Album Description
Armed with the knowledge that he could surpass his former achievements and grow as an artist, Keith went back to the drawing board. The result is DR. OCTAGON PART 2 and it's an impressive testament to the talent of an MC who can more than hold his own against rap's new players. Keith has released an album that is multi-layered, full of richness and texture. Musically, he continually takes chances, meshing smooth rhythms and hyperactive funk.On DR. OCTAGON PART 2, the many sides of Kool Keith have been amalgamated to reveal the whole being. Or at least, they reveal who Kool Keith is today: a multi-talented MC/producer who seems to have found his sense of being and purpose, a hip-hop powerhouse about to get his due. "With this album, I'm taking rap to a whole new perspective and I'm playing with it," Keith says. "I want to let everyone know what creativity is...."
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It's a bootleg.......2004-10-12
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Return of Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagon Manufacturer: Ocd Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000L22SY8 Release Date: 2007-01-30 |
Tracks:
- Trees
- Aliens
- Ants
- Don't Worry My Pop Music
- Perfect World
- The Turtle Skit
- Al Green
- A Gorilla Driving a Pick-Up Truck
- Got Any Kids?
- Doctor Octagon
- It's the Morning
- Jumpstart
- Eat It
Album Description
Hide your daughters... the Doctor is making house calls. After the groundbreaking success of Dr. Octanonecologyst, Dr. Octagon hid out for years. With The Return of Dr. Octagon, Kool Keith is once again practicing as the twisted, sex-crazed Doctor. Teaming with international production team One Watt Sun, the former M.C. with the seminal Ultramagnetix MC's delivers a sequel many thought would never arrive. Nasty skits and gritty electro-beats compliment the mental rhymes that demand repeated listenings. Special guests DJ Dexter of the Avalanches and Princess Superstar add to the madness. Outta space has cometh. Trees are dying. Gorillas are driving pick-up trucks. And we can tell you no more. You'll have to listen to The Return of Dr. Octagon for yourself
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Dr. Octagonecologyst
Dr. Octagon Manufacturer: DreamWorks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001LQ8 Release Date: 1996-09-06 |
Tracks:
- 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
Customer Reviews:
melon pragmatist trampoline.......2005-08-20
If you like underground hip hop classics, dope album cover art, sick turntablism, and awesome beats, this album is a must have. I still listen to it regularly and I think I've had this album for about 8 years. Keith's lyrics are ingenious but they will not make sense to someone with a limited understanding of polyfunkoptemetricology. I would buy this just for the cover art. And the plastic CD case is sturdy.
One of the all-time classics.......2004-07-25
What are you all talking about?.......2004-04-28
As far as being "cutting edge" and "radically new" and whatever other great sounding description these reviewers want to leave, this album is not.
Elementary school kids could make an album more intelligible than this. If you want to listen to this CD, you're DEFINITELY gonna need to be on something. I can't imagine how one could stand it otherwise.
Classic Material.......2002-09-02
yes indeed....very interesting.......2002-04-16
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American Eagle Outfitters - The Black Top Sessions Volume 3
Manbreak , Crystal Method , Dr. Octagon , Outhouse , Melony , Subcircus , The Seahorses , Whiskeytown , Laura Love , and Pulsars Manufacturer: American Eagle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000B6QCB4 |
Product Description
American Eagle Outfitters - Various X - Large Songs Volume 3 -The Black Top Sessions// 1. Kop Karma - Manbreak 2. Busy Child - Crystal Method 3. Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon 4. Welcome - Outhouse 5. Big Dipper - Melony 6. 86'd - Subcircus 7. Blinded By the Sun - The Seahorses 8. 16 Days - Whiskeytown 9. All the Pushin' - Laura Love 10. Suffocation - Pulsars 11. On A Tuesday - Linoleum 12. I Am, I Feel - Alisha's Attic 13. Elegantly Wasted - INXS 14. Retreat From the Sun - That Dog 15. Rainy Day - 10,000 Maniacs
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Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats
Dr. Octagon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002XNC0U |
Album Description
New second album by this Mo'Wax recording artist.All but 3 of the 14 tracks are instrumentals.The album is comprised of new tracks andinstrumental versions of stuff from his self-titled deut. 'Blue Flowers' was his first single; '3000'is his latest single (as of 12/09/96).
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Released / Electronica and Dance Mix
DJ Dennis Cox Manufacturer: Local 111 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KFXXGS |
Product Description
Dennis Cox has been making his mark on Detroit for over 10 years. His wide collection of electronic music genres have all heavily influenced his personal style as an artist and producer. He is known from taking his head banging techno music and wrapping it carefully around the house and other favorites. TRACKS: DISK ONE: 1) Intro 2) Aquela Esquina - "Ah-Capella" 3) Afterdark - "Boom" 4) Gene Ferris - "Spanish Filter" 5) Joeski - "Shelia's Temptation" 6) Rubber Souls - "Can You Relate" 7) Hipp-e & Tony - "Down in a Land" 8) H-foundation - "Da Sounds of Now" 9) Dano & Halo - "Divebomb" 10) The GB Experience - "Gotta Have It" 11) Onionz, Ton. & Dano - "D Electric Soul Mix" 12) Trouble Men - "Mo' Samples" 14) Ian Pooley - "Balmes" 15) A Boody Thing 16) Joeski's Warehouse Mix - "Hold On To Your Love" 17) Ginger - "Just call Me" 18) Bob Sinclair - "Bisou Sucre" 19) Sessomomato - "Moody" 21) Outro DISK TWO: 1) Intro 2) Laurent Garnier - "Silver Screen Shower Scene" 3) Nitzer eb - "Join The Chant" 4) Beta Cartone - "Way Ahead" 5) Soul Watcher - "Battery" 6) Ian Pooley - "Balmes" 7) Antoine Clamar - "Dance 2" 8) Latin Loopworks - "Mi Casa es su Casa" 9) Tan-ru - "Keep Reachin" 10) Dope Movers - "Spin Around" 11) Crz & Ito - "Bringin the Funk" 12) The Stret Preacherz - "III Concepts" 13) Josh Wink - "Evil Acid" 14) Paranoid Jack - "Slavedriver" 15) Funk 242 - "The Crompton" 16) Harry Choo-choo Romero - "The Cricket Mix" 17) Paranoid Jack - "Good Lov" 18) Rob Acid - "Storm" 19) Marco Carola
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ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000J3Q9ZI Release Date: 2007-03-27 |
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