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August 10, 1999
New releases this week include albums from Kool Keith, Bis, Rahzel, Asleep at the Wheel, the Bottle Rockets and more
Recordings and Reviews
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On his first record in ten years, Dr. Octagon greets you with his answering machine: "Our operators are masturbating right now, but your call has been placed in a bucket of stomach fluid." From there, Octagon -- a.k.a. Kool Keith, a Bronx-born MC and veteran of several great rap projects -- keeps hi...
2006 RS:
Biography
One of indie rap's most prolific and profoundly bugged-out artists,
Kool Keith puts out albums with uncommercial, pointedly abstract
original music with no samples, almost always creating an entirely
new persona for himself from disc to disc. The MC born Keith
Thornton came up as part of the Bronx crew Ultramagnetic MC's, the
oddball star of their 1988 cult classic Critical Beatdown.
He appeared...
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