Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats

Dr. Octagon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 29, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dreamworks
• ASIN: B000005AM9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,985 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 3000

2. Moosebumps

3. Earth People

4. Real Raw

5. No Awareness

6. Blue Flowers

7. Technical Difficulties

8. A Visit to the Gynecologyst

9. Bear Witness [Extended Version]

10. Dr. Octagon

11. Girl Let Me Touch You

12. I'm Destructive

13. Tricknology 101

14. Wild and Crazy

15. Blue Flowers Revisited

16. Waiting List

17. On Production

Editorial Reviews

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). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spaceman Cometh, April 12, 2003

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Erik Nelson (Crooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats (Audio CD)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Let me show you something.", September 23, 2004

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B-MAN "B" (Earth, occasionally. Until I get bored.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats (Audio CD)

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

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The album I wished for when I heard it the first time, March 4, 2000

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Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats (Audio CD)

When I originally heard the original Dr. Octagon album, I thought Keith's raps were cool and weird, but I was really moved by the tripped out, spacey funk that was his music. The whole time I was listening to the CD, I was thinking: "they should release an instrumental version of this. People who don't even like hip-hop might get into this." And so here we are. I must not have been TOO off the mark then. Recommended for fans of acid jazz, DJ records and just plain ole' weirdness (DJ Spooky, Skratch Piklz, etc.)