Track Listing

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. Visit To The Gynecologist
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 Flower
19. Waiting List
20. 1977

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16972 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
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

Seminal stuff
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.

Best Album Ever!
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!

See abstract rap in anyway u want but i see it as INGENIOUS
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. And Qbert is the slicing Stethoscope bringin the beautiful heartbeat of the track that is the DJ.

Please buy it and liberate your mind. Close off from the world enjoy.
This world is a disease ridden, impoverished quagmar and Dr Octagon is simply providing the medicine.