Dr. Octagon

After single-handedly redefining “warped” because the brain and mouth area behind the Bronx-based Ultramagnetic MC’s, “Kool” Keith Thornton — aka Tempo X, aka Dr. Octagon, aka Dr. Dooom, aka Mr. Gerbik — going for the external reaches from the stratosphere with a number of solo tasks. A onetime psychiatric individual at Bellevue, Keith’s lyrical thematics continued to be as free-flowing right here because they ever had been using the N.Con. trio, hooking up up complicated meters with brutal, layers-deep metaphors and veiled criticisms of these who “drinking water down the audio that originates from the ghetto.” His very own debut one, “Globe People” by Dr. Octagon, was silently released in past due 1995 in the San Francisco-based Mass Recordings, as well as the monitor pass on like wildfire with the hip-hop underground, as do the next self-titled full-length released the next season. Featuring internationally renowned DJ Q-Bert (also from the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) on turntables, along with the Automator and DJ Darkness behind the planks, Dr. Octagonecologyst’s left-field fusion of audio collage, brutal turntable function, and bizarre, impressionistic rapping discovered audiences in probably the most improbable of areas, from hardcore hip-hop minds to jaded rock and roll critics. Although a relatively sophomoric preoccupation with areas of the body and scatology tended to dominate the record, Keith’s complicated weave of organizations and shifting sources is quite frequently amazing in its intricacy. The record discovered its method to the U.K.-centered abstract hip-hop imprint Mo’Wax (for whom Shadow also documented) in middle-1996 and was certified from the label for Western release (Mo’Wax also released a DJ-friendly instrumental version from the album entitled, appropriately, The Instrumentalyst: Octagon Is better than). The common recognition of the recording eventually got Keith at Geffen splinter Dreamworks in 1997; the label offered Dr. Octagonecologyst its third launch mid-year, adding several bonus slashes. In early 1999, nevertheless, Keith’s alter ego Dr. Dooom regrettably “killed away” Dr. Octagon around the opening tabs on the 1999 recording First Arrive, First Offered (released on Thornton’s personal Funky Ass label). Kool Keith authorized to Ruffhouse/MCA for his second recording under that alias, 1999’s Dark Elvis/Shed in Space. Information released as Kool Keith adopted in 2000 (Matthew) and 2001 (Spankmaster), as the 2002 cooperation Game made an appearance as KHM (Kool Keith plus H-Bomb and Marc Live). A number of produces from Keith’s myriad alter egos arrived in the next years, including Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz and Diesel Truckers, the second option which he do with KutMasta Kurt and both which had been released in 2004, as well as the 2006 information Nogatco Rd. as well as the long-awaited Come back of Dr. Octagon, that was made by One Watt Sunlight and recorded inside a 12th hundred years tower in Prague, Berlin, and Australia.