From Mark Kolmar Sent Thu, Nov 6th 1997, 23:18
From Mark Kolmar Sent Thu, Nov 6th 1997, 23:18
> > 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