quoted 7 lines On the hiphop tip... Buy Dr. Octagon if you haven't--Q-Bert and the> > On the hiphop tip... Buy Dr. Octagon if you haven't--Q-Bert and the
> >Automater lay down the phattest scratching/beats/samples combo in quite a
> >while, and Kool Keith has skills to pay the bills.
>
> Also, if you're going to buy Dr. Octagon, by all means get
> the instrumental version. I'm a fan of the Ultramagnetic MCs, but Kool
> Keith's raps completely maul the amazing production done by Automator
_The Instrumenalyst_ (or however that was spelled) is essentially an
Automator album.
Your appreciation of the Dr. Octagon album will depend on your ability or
willingness to get inside the scat/pseudo-science/pseuo-medical sci-fi
world Kool Keith raps about. Personally, I think both the production and
rapping are great.
I'm not sure how much this says about how far ahead of its time
Ultramagnetic MCs' _Critical Beatdown_ was, and how much this says about
the progress in hip-hop over the last decade or so -- but that's a record
to check out for some mad beats (some of which do sound very '88) and even
more mad scratching.
--Mark