Octagon

Octagon

Track Listings

1. Immaculate Pinetreeroad #930

2. Born to Die

3. Psychopath

4. Sociopath

5. Grey

6. Century

7. 33 Something

8. War Supply

9. Schizianity

10. Judgement of Posterity

11. Deuce

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Bathory's rediscovered love for power & brutality continued onto this album from 1995. A first in that it deals with modern topics. It's a crossover styled release offering a brutal yet clean cut of that jugular vein. Black Mark. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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 Levin

Customer Reviews:

asdf.......2007-05-07

how can you possibly hate this truckers? kool keith at his most imaginative... don't even think about dissing... how could you possibly? for what he is trying to achieve here, koo keith and kid koala achieve in leaps and bounds...

Kool Keith pwns.......2007-01-16

killer beats, and space style extreme. ground-breaking hip hop: expect nothing less from early kool keith. Try dr doom and sex style. avoid albums after that. he went downhill.

What is there to say that hasn't already been said?.......2006-10-18

To some, bugged-out is an insult. To Kool Keith, it's a lifestyle. While other emcees talk about how insane they are, and use it merely as a gimmick, Keith has time spent in an asylum as proof of his authenticity. Is spending time in a padded-room neccessarily something to take pride in? Absolutely not. But for Kool Keith, it's something that has greatly set him apart from his contemporaries.

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

But that's because Keith is an alien himself. When a collective of hip hop enthusiasts from the Ego Trip staff ranked Kool Keith as the number 19th greatest emcee of all-time (one ahead of Tupac) in there book of lists, they were not taking it lightly. He wasn't your standard A-B rhymer. He was shattering rules of rhyme structure since his glory days with the Ultramagnetic Mcs. He always possessed an unorthodoxed off-beat flow, passionate vocal tone, and boasts so brazen they stunned his listener into silence. Who would have thought that the leader of that group would turn into a perverse alien who happened to have his record drop from another planet to turn from thermal nuclear residue to Earth in compact format (read the album cover notes to understand where i'm comin' from).

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

This is one of the great hip-hop albums of all time. "Deltron 3030" is another one. Buy this or live a deprived existence.

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dr. octa-shit
Two worn-down turntables and a microphone the size of an elephant's trunk
suckas.
Garbage Album
Bad. Don't Buy.

The Return of Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagon
Manufacturer: Ocd Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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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?
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Album Description

At last, the official sequel to Dr. Octagon featuring Kool Keith, One Watt Sun, DJ Dexter and Princess Superstar

The 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.

Customer Reviews:

dr. octa-shit.......2007-02-11

i didn't think anything could be more of a waste of money than "nogatco rd.", but i was wrong. this sucks. wack beats, boy-band casio melodies, and it's short, which is actually a good thing.

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

The Doctor cuts the same swath of cut-and-paste mixed-breed hip-hop as DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and The Avalanches. Dense soundscapes designed for the dance floor or the acid test, peppered with zany skits involving bodily fluids and extraterrestrials, the disc moves along like a ferris wheel on the loose. "A Gorilla Driving a Pick-Up Truck" is a song that lives up to its disturbing image, a musky, syrupy entry that sounds like "Bone Machine"-era Tom Waits with a dash of '80s synth and table scratching with bug-bite gusto, and this lyrical morsel: "He's throwing bananas under my wheels; I'm slidin' going down those Texas hills." One envisions The Doctor eventually descending to his bunker in the belly of a metropolis, smoking fat blunts, ham radio blaring ill logic in the background, surgical tools soaking in the sink.

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

Just a quick review to offer my two cents. I loved Dr Ocatagynecoligist (who didn't?) and I'm a fan of most of the rest of Keith's catalog (Diesel Truckers was strange) so I was excited to see a new Doc Oc album. It's F-ing trash. The levels are off and the beats sound like they are off a boy band record. The only track I liked was the one with Princess Superstar, and that's because she's a cute female MC. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but just the same, don't waste your money.

Bad. Don't Buy........2006-10-25

So I bought this album on iTunes, thinking it was legit.... It got two stars, because "Trees" isn't terrible. The rest is garbage.

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Sweet beats (it rhymes you see)
Hah, bet you can't rap over this.
"Let me show you something."
Keyword: Instrumentalyst
Spaceman Cometh

The Instrumentalyst (Octagon Beats)
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The Return of Dr. Octagon

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

Dan the Automator is a genius. I don't even have the original Dr. Octagon, not that I don't want it. The beats are just too sweet.

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

Actually, I would have preferred some of the songs like Blue Flowers and Girl Let Me Touch You to stay the original way they are, which kinda put me alittle down in there.

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

Dr. Octagon: The Instrumentalyst (Octagon Beats) is what the title implies, the instrumental version (the music - beats, samples, and scratches) of the 1996 album Dr. Octagonecologyst. Dr. Octagon is former Ultramagnetic MC's member Kool Keith. The background music is by Dan the Automator (also from Handsome Boy Modeling School) with scratching by DJ Qbert so the wealth of talent on the original recording make it essential. Kool Keith's lyrics and rhyme skills are something to behold. It may well be the strangest of it's kind. So since this instrumental album is basically everything except Kool Keith, there is that element missing. However, this is one case where the music and vocals complement each other. I first heard the album in it's original format with Kool Keith intact and the inventive use of beats and background music was as unique as he was. So when I found that there was also an instrumental version I had to have that as well. Highlights are plenty, but a few personal favorites are "No Awareness", "Blue Flowers", "Technical Difficulties", "A visit to the gynecologist" (although the original is a guilty pleasure), "Girl let me touch you", and of course "Moosebumps" which is a longer version (1:47) of the original album's "I got to tell you" (:48). This one especially works for me because it's a track that I always wanted to last longer with just the music. Bottom line if you liked the original's music or are just a fan of creative trip or hip hop beats, then this won't disappoint. One of the best of it's kind. Dr. Octagon only made one album. I recommend owning both versions.

Also recommended:

Ultramagnetic MC's: Critical Beatdown
Dan the Automator: Deltron 3030/Tron 3030 - The Instrumentals
DJ Qbert: Wave Twisters

Keyword: Instrumentalyst.......2003-07-16

It's mostly the same as 'Dr Octagonecologyst' because it IS the same...without about 98% of the lyrics. Hence the name "instrumentalyst" ....and they can't call him Dr Octagonecologyst because Kool Keith plays the role of the Dr. Anyway though...I assume this album was made for those Automator (Dan) fans who can't handle the psychotic yet amazing stylings of Kool Keith. Either album is great though....Dan the Automator is a Complete Genius. Check out Deltron 3030 if you're into Dan and perhaps Del tha Funkee Homosapian...although an instrumental version of that is available too. All 4 (everything that touches Automators hands) is pure GOLD!

Spaceman Cometh.......2003-04-13

Few albums can claim such auspicious genesis: Dan the Automator, making history with futuristic, mind-bending beats, Q-bert scratching himself raw, and Kool Keith reduced to a vague, meandering warble on the few vocal blips that make it through the otherwise undefineable hiphop landscape presented here. Make no mistake, there is nothing, and there will never be nothing, kids, like Instrumentalyst. Without peer, without premise, without imitation. This album will get into your bloodstream. This album will turn you away from all the fakers, the players, the haters, the bitchez and hoze, all those who don't know a goddamn thing about what hip and hop really is. Forward thinking, yes. A dream inside an octagon box of mirrors is more like it. Treat your ears and imagination to this rich, wonderful and most of all SPOOKY album--it has delighted every cool party i have ever thrown, guaranteed, sparked wild, sacreilgious conversation, been worshipped and bowed to, cried over, danced, jumped, shouted to, all manner of twilight behavior, etc... Gentlemen, you have been only fooled by music until you have heard the Instrumentalyst masters. You think your heroes have balls? Eminem, with all his talent, could never have the foresight or guts put out an album like this. Tribe? Crushed by the Instrumentalyst shadow. Find yourself a dark night, some peace, and let this one steep. In. Your. Mind. Oh, and they did this YEARS ago, in the skool they tore down to build the old skool.

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melon pragmatist trampoline
One of the all-time classics
What are you all talking about?
Classic Material
yes indeed....very interesting

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I Got to Tell You
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Bear Witness
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Girl Let Me Touch You
I'm Destructive
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1977

Customer Reviews:

melon pragmatist trampoline.......2005-08-20

Undeniably the best album to listen to while defecating in your sister's hair. With Q-bert on the decks and Automator producing--even Gargamel and Azriel purring and rapping over the beats would've been dope. In fact, I read a recipe and the ingredients for Frosted Flakes over the beats and I couldn't believe how fabulous it sounded.

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

One of raps all time classics. nothing tops this. keith is so innovative and his lyrics are more creative than 99% of all rappers. this Mandingo reviewer f*%kwit obviously aint a rap fan, becasue if they were they would know what they were talking about. i bet they would call 50 cent ja rule eminem jay z d12 "RAP". dont listen to this f*6kstick because he has no idea what he talking about. this is one of the alltime best rap albums ever. if u dont have it and call yourself a rap fan then your opinion is garbage, fah real.

What are you all talking about?.......2004-04-28

I'll give this 2 stars just for the beats.

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

One of the most innovate recordings in hip hop history. Dr. Octagons' outer space funk infused hip hop is something so unique I guarantee you'll never hear anything like it again. The Automater's beats are trippy, funky, dark and surreal. Doc Oc's (Kool Keith) lyrics are abstract, funky, and spontaneous. Standout tracks include Technical Difficulties, Blue Flowers(original and remix), Dr. Octagon and No Awareness. The whole disc is tight and flows effortlessly throughout. Word to the wise, approach this disc with an open mind, definately one of my top 10 hip hop cds ever, maybe even top 5.

yes indeed....very interesting.......2002-04-16

hey whats up...this album is on 13 year old school girl tip...you cant touch it....very good album...one of my favorite records of all time...halfsharkalligator is an instant classic...his flows make sense in a drug induced psycho scientist kind of way....overall two very big thumbs up for this doc oc masterpiece....

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A Thrashed Bathory.
QUORTHON 'S LAST FULL THRASH ALBUM.
it jams
hmmm
ok

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Destroyer of Worlds

ASIN: B000001H3Q
Release Date: 1995-10-17

Tracks:

Immaculate Pinetreeroad #930
Born To Die
Psychopath
Sociopath
Grey
Century
33 Something
War Supply
Schizianity
Jodgement Of Posterity
Deuce

Album Description

Bathory's rediscovered love for power & brutality continued onto this album from 1995. A first in that it deals with modern topics. It's a crossover styled release offering a brutal yet clean cut of that jugular vein. Black Mark.

Customer Reviews:

A Thrashed Bathory........2006-12-22

If you listen to classics like, the first Bathory or The Return and then throw on Octagon, it doesn't sound like the same band. The most wicked one man band strayed away from the early sound that made Bathory a must in any Black Metal freak's collection. On this one you still have that shrewd Bathory guitar sound, the drumming is like old school thrash and speed metal, the singing reminds me of something like old Sacred Reich. Basically, it's not like the early stuff, but still good enough to listen to. I wouldn't listen to this one time and then chuck it: come on, it's Bathory! I gave it 3 stars as a decent thrash outing; an extra star for four because it's Bathory man!

QUORTHON 'S LAST FULL THRASH ALBUM........2006-11-13

IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THIS ALBUM FOLLOWED REQUIEM WHICH WAS ONLY 33.25 MINUTES LONG AND OCTAGON COMES IN AT 39.51 MINUTES.MY POINT IS THESE TWO ALBUMS COULD HAVE BEEN SOLD AS ONE ALBUM AS THEY ARE BOTH SIMILAR AND THE LAST OF THIS TYPE OF MUSIC BEFORE QUORTHON WENT ON HIS NORDIC ADVENTURE WITH BLOOD ON ICE.DESTROYER OF WORLDS AND NORDLAND 1& 2.OVERALL THIS ALBUM IS VERY POWERFUL WITH SOME STAND OUT SONGS LIKE BORN TO DIE(MY FAVOURITE)GREY.CENTURY.33 SOMETHING.WAR SUPPLY BEING THE BEST.BELIEVE IT OR NOT THERE
IS EVEN A KISS COVER CALLED DEUCE ON THIS ALBUM.OVERALL AN EXCELLENT PRODUCTION. R.I.P BROTHER QUORTHON.

it jams.......2005-01-07

i bought jubileum 3 (a bathory compilation) at a flea market after hearing the first track "33 something" i had never hrard bathory.after hearing the whole thing i was a little disappointed w/ most the songs , except for the tracks off requiem & octagon . since then i've bought these two albums & octagon is my favorite of the two . its raw & sloppy like like fresh clevered flesh topped off w/ a sleazy sounding cover of kisses deuce . this is not a band trying to sound like pantera or anyone else ,least not on this album.

hmmm.......2001-03-18

Well, this is probably the most unliked bathory album in forever. nobody likes it. personally, i think it's not bad , and not good. the production is not so bad as everyone says, but the songs are not well composed. it's kinda the same style. there is a very good song called born to die on it. but anyway, i like to listen to it.

ok.......1999-12-30

After trailblazing through black metal, death metal, and viking metal, Bathory for the first time takes on an already established style - Pantera-style aggro metal. Unfortunately, Bathory doesn't get a good enough production job to pull it off. A weak drum sound and awkward sounding vocals just make this seem like a watered down version of Pantera. Quorthon can scream, and he's even proved that he can sing, but he's not too good at the hardcore-style shout. The underlying songs aren't too bad, but they just don't come across.

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Refreshing To Say The Least

Welcome to the Octagon
The Fireballs of Freedom
Manufacturer: Estrus Records
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Refreshing To Say The Least.......2004-04-15

With the release of thier sophmore album, 'Total Fu cking Blowout', Fireballs of Freedom became the band that all garage rock / punk / hardcore bands are to be compared to, and with 'Welcome to the Ocatagon' the come back with more of the same hard hitting punk tinged garage rock. 'Welcome to the Ocatagon' is a stride in somewhat of a different direction production wise though, the ultra gritty and raw sound of there previous two albums and cleaned it up a tad (not as much to destroy the overall "underground" /unclean feel of the album). Surprisingly, this is perhaps the best prodcution transition since Enslaved's masterpiece 'Monumension'. Specifically the clean sound accentuates the roaring guitars and vocals. Speaking of the guitars and vocals, they are executed prefectly and meld beautifully with the drums and bass. The music itself sounds kind of like early Fugazi meets Hot Hot Heat (for a more recent reference) with a slight streek of The Refused. NO matter what song you listen to, it will keep your interest. Standout tracks are "Skalawag" and "Got My Soul Back". Loosely put, if you live in Seattle and still wear flannle shirt, want to find something better than those hypocratic and untalented modern upscale "rock" bands (The Vines, The White Stripes, The Strokes, and almost any other band with "The" in the front of their name), or are hardcore fans who want something a little different then pick up 'Welcome to the Ocatagon'. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the new rock saviors.

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Masselos Playes Mayr and Rudhyar

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Octagon: II Canzone
Octagon: III Scherzo
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Octagon: VII Points And Lights
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Paeans
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Freezing cold ambience
Droning Ambient Soundscapes

Octagon
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Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000001D49
Release Date: 1997-06-24

Tracks:

Octagon
Queen's Favor
Solis
Frozen East
Tale
Insideout
Campanion

Tracks:

Shapeshifter
Coral
Karnak
Ashes
Caldera
Para
Oracle
Wassertanze
Nemo's Chord
Qaddame
Beacon
Terrace Serpent

Customer Reviews:

Freezing cold ambience.......2002-10-11

I'd heard several tracks from Octagon on various Hearts of Space programs, and had to get it. The music surrounds and envelops the listener, but remains very cold and distant. Several tracks follow the same mold - a series of chords that is repeated, and at each repetition you hear new electronic sounds, building and building throughout the piece, then fading out at track's end. I like it, but it makes some of the music a little predictable. Frozen East, Ashes, and Beacon are standouts. The rest of the CD holds up as well, but I wonder if this could have been distilled to 1 CD. It's still worth it.

As you listen, your mind will conjure up images of bright sun and cold, cold ice. It's gorgeous music, but it is dangerously chilly.

Droning Ambient Soundscapes.......2000-08-30

Dilate is real ambient- droning soundscapes, very popular on SomaFM.com's Drone Zone abmient stream. Similar to Tulu + Nick Parkin, Tuu, the early Instinct Ambient series, Harold Budd (when he's not talking!) or early Eno Ambient.

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It's a bootleg

Dr. Octagon Part 2
Kool Keith
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
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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...."

Customer Reviews:

It's a bootleg.......2004-10-12

The album is beeing bootleged by 101 Distribution, in association with Real Talk Records and 33rd Street Records. The album has already been shipped and will be in stores on October 12th it cannot be recalled. The album features 2 demos, 2 Clayborne Family tracks, and 6 INCOMPLETE tracks from the upcoming 7th Veil album. The cover of the album features Kool Keith standing in front of an Escalade, which he is not even down with. 101 Distribution, Real Talk, and 33rd Street are being sued for this release. According to Jacky Jasper, the official bootlegger is Michael Kinbrew (a.k.a. Scoobie) and his partner Damon Evans. Supposedely, these two have stolen records from Kurrupt and had false negotiation agreements with Kel of "Kenan and Kel" Nickelodeon).

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An insider's view

Octagon, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000049O0
Release Date: 1995-12-01

Customer Reviews:

An insider's view.......2002-10-05

This CD is the second recording made by the Octagon Ensemble, made up of musicians auditioned from the entire University of California system for the purpose of performing and recording new music by California composers. I'm Polly Moller -- I was a member of Octagon and I play flute on this CD.
My favorite track on Octagon Vol. II is "Totem" by Steve Jespersen. I didn't play on this track, but I always looked forward to hearing it on our concert tour. The setting of the Sylvia Plath poetry was beautifully interpreted by Erica Turrell (who was one of my roommates on the tour), and the haunting instrumental writing gives me chills to this day.
Of the pieces I personally played on, I like "Lullaby" by Timothy Melbinger the best. Erica Turrell was our vocal soloist for this one as well.
In short, the CD is the result of a year-long endeavor by some very accomplished musicians and represents some beautiful work by some talented composers from California. You should check it out. :)

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