The Return of Dr Octagon by Dr Octagon & Kool Keith - Buttercuts Records [BUTT018CD] FLAC download included with physical items

The Return of Dr Octagon

Dr Octagon & Kool Keith

A 14 track electro-funk album (35m 12s) — released October 23rd 2006 on Buttercuts Records

#hiphop #electro-funk
Now back in 2006 after a decade spent in the wilderness Dr. Octagon has resurfaced with a brand new album: ‘The Return Of Dr. Octagon’. Production trio One Watt Sun have picked up where Dan The Automator left off. They recorded 'The Return of Dr. Octagon' in an array of different places including a twelfth century turret in the old quarter of Prague, Byron Bay and Melbourne in Australia, as well as their current studio space in Berlin. One Watt Sun’s musical style is like a morphing twisted intelligent organism, an animal yet to be named and really suits Kool Keith’s crazy rhyming. Outstanding tunes such as the lead single ‘Aliens’ as well as other soon to be classics ‘Ants’ and ‘Trees’ never sit still for a moment, changing pitch and instruments like an orchestral conductor with amnesia! It is within their production that One Watt Sun seem to really have the ability to bring out the edginess of Keith’s lyrics, and his unstable character, (he was a onetime patient of Bellevue psychiatric hospital) only adds to the magic of The Return of Dr Octagon, Also making an appearance on the album, DJ Dexter (formerly of the Avalanches) steps in for the Egyptian scratch flavour of Ants and Princess Superstar who features on the song ''Eat It', a twisted tale of war that somehow manages to include sexual references, bizarre! It may have been a decade since the last album, but Dr. Octagon is still kicking it, what are you waiting for, check it out! 100,000 flyer campaign running up to release date, 5000 poster campaign London and 8 other citys, Radio 1 mega mix, Trees single to be released on November the 13th 2006, Video to be on MTV, Keith is meant to be playing London dates

In your face and slikly executed…arguably the greatest scratching ever on a hip hop record 4.5/7 - One Week To Live

Sound is full and deep **** - What Hifi

Turbo fuelled beats, blazing synths and a charging bassline complemented by a great use of Kool Keith's twisted vocals **** - iDJ

It's clear Keith hasn't lost his sense of humour or his bizzarre (and often ingenious) lyrical style - Getintotrouble.com

Dr Octagon grabs your attention with an album of occasional excellence and regular excentricity *** - Gigwise.com

A rapper of eccentric talent and somewhat inconsistent genius - Sub culture.com

Kool Keith is back with a heavy weight sound, but thankfully with his off-kilter world view in tact - Music Week

Hip Hops man of steel flexes his musical muscles again - DJ Magazine

Results are never less than entertaining - Independent

It's like hip hop trippin' on acid while seperately experimenting with amphetamines and Rohypnol - LiveonStage.org

The Hardest working man in flow biz - Hip Hop Connection

Odd, brilliant, irritating, I'm not quite sure. I keep playing it though! **** - Echoes

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