Wizard the Lizard

Dreams of his own laboratory.

He’s into all kinds of tricks. Even cheap tricks fascinate him a lot.

He is also into weapons.

The “Wilhelm Tell” of the crew.

MY TOP 10 ALBUMS by The Wizard (Puppetmastaz)

Max Turner -- Reflections On Liquid (Metabooty -- 2008)

Ever since we started this Puppetmastaz shit, Max Turner AKA "The Purple Pro" has been one of our biggest influences, but I've got to shout-out his newest E.P., because he just keeps getting better and better. 3-D glasses required for listening.

Ghostface -- The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam 2004)

Ghostface not only taught me how to rap, he also taught me how to sing off-key over The Delfonics. This is the album that set him apart once and for all not only from the rest of the Wu-Tang, but from rappers in general, because it was here that we realised that Ghostface was actually Jesus.

The World Provider -- Lost illusions E.P. (TaDa -- 2006)

The World Provider is like a modern-day Canadian version of Markus. He also helped smuggle me out of Panama via Montreal and into the Berlin underground. Thank you World Provider, if you're reading this.

Ice-T -- Iceberg/Freedom of Speech (Street Knowledge -- 1989)

My first rap cassette. Ice-T was never the best rapper, and a bit too much of a know-it-all ["Besserwisser"], but the first love is the deepest.

Kevin Blechdom -- Eat My Heart Out (Chicks On Speed -- 2005)

This album is musical proof that anything is possible. I was personally present at some of the recordings and witnessed some incredible feats of elasticity never before seen in humans. Even I, a creature made of latex, could never definitively determine whether Ms. Blechdom was in fact human or puppet.

François de Roubaix -- Les plus belles musiques de film de François de Roubaix - volume 1 & 2
(Hortensia 1990)

During my days as a refugee in Montreal, I spent a lot of time at the library listening to vinyl records like "Mating Calls Of The Galapagos". And then I found François de Roubaix, the world's greatest film soundtrack composer, who spent all his time in either in the studio or underwater, looking at tropical fish.

A*Class -- Ain't No Future But Our Future (Nneon 2004)

I used to have a lot of trouble facing the idea of going back to school in September. Now I know that for the rest of my life, and my children's lives, and my children's children's children's lives, this album will be there to make studying Math feel like a 2 Live Crew video booty shake.

The Diplomats -- Diplomatic Immunity (Roc-a-fella -- 2003)

Back when the world was purple, Juelz Santana was a young Snoopy and Cam'Ron was the Oscar Wilde of gangster rap ("no homo!"). And who can forget Hell Rell's raps recorded over a prison pay phone?

Stereo Total -- Musique Automatique (Bungalow -- 2001)

When I first got to Berlin and tried to contact the notorious Puppetmastaz, this album was kind of like my passport. I used it to learn German, English, French and even Turkish--all the important languages of today's Berlin.

PFFR -- United With Doth (Birdman -- 2003)

This is a snapshot of contemporary American society as seen in retrospect by artists living in the year 2182 under the cruel dictatorship of an escaped genetic experiment. Apparently PFFR sent this album back in time to as a coded message trying to warn us of a coming viral apocalypse but, ironically, the very act of sending it back altered the course of history and actually caused the viral apocalypse. See also: "Wundershowzen" and "Xavier: Renegade Angel"