From luftdruck Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 04:07
From luftdruck Sent Sat, Feb 21st 1998, 04:07
>ADDITIONALLY: it was noted that qbert did all the scratching on
>the dr. octagon project. he really shows his stuff on the instrumentalyst
>version.
->What the hell are you talking about? Nearly all of Q-Bert's scratching
->was REMOVED from the 'Instrumentalyst' versions, along with Keith's vocals,
->and replaced with flute solos and so forth. The 'Instrumentalyst' album
->might as well be an Automator solo release.
after listening to the original DR OCTAGON release, _intrumentalyst_ caused
me to
cry out with joy. it was as if someone had finally told keith to s h u t -
u p and
he listened. i cannot agree that "nearly all of q-bert's scratching was
removed".
keep in mind that _intrumentalyst_ has a slightly different track list.
there are
the same number of tracks with scratches, minus the remixes . . . that are
only on
the original release. in addition, the extended version of _bear_witness_
may not
have the same scratching complexity but the turntable skills q-bert
displays prove
his 6th sense. q-bert still gets good representation on _intrumentalyst_
and it is
more noticeable without the droning lyrical disfunction of kool keith.
michael j. pickering
washington state university
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