Dr. Octagon

Dr. Octagonecologyst

GET ON DOWN. LP Deluxe 3LP set of Kool Keith’s extra-terrestrial 1996 debut, in pricey octagonal box. Dr. Octagonecologyst was a truly singular statement. Issued to little fanfare when the whiny high-end synths of G-Funk ruled the waves, it put Ultramagnetic MCs’ most garrulous wordsmith on the map. As with everything hence, Kool Keith did it in character, as a timetravelling alien gynaecologist of questionable ethics. Yet his offbeat flow and ceaseless splurge of hallucinatory images, barbaric medical metaphors and blunt sexual advances wouldn’t hit as hard without the virtuoso scratches of DJ Q-Bert and Dan The Automator’s atmospheric production, co-mingling flutes, opera singers and metal powerchords with futuristic electronics. Keith’s inability to pen a dull rhyme, blazing cameos from Sir Menelik and Kutmasta Kurt and un-shit skits provided legs that five unreleased tracks now decorously augment.