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Format: CD
Sep 1998
Record Label: Out Post
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 607703003125 |
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Track Listing
1. Pandemonium
2. Synchronic Disjecta
3. Object Unknown
4. It's Nice Not to Lose Your Mind
5. Dialectical Transformation I (A Parallax View)
6. Post-Human Sophistry
7. Quilombo Ex Optico
8. Rekonstruction
9. Scientifik
10. Conversation, A
11. Peace in Zaire
12. Dialectical Transformation II (Du Nouveau Monde)
13. Degree Zero
14. Roman Planetaire
15. Bass Digitalis
16. Polyphony of One
17. Riddim Warfare
18. Nerd, The
19. Dialectical Transformation III (Soylent Green)
20. Theme of the Drunken Sailor
21. Twilight Fugue
Album Notes
Personnel: DJ Spooky (vocals, various instruments); Ambassador Jr. (vocals, scratches); Kool Keith, Sir Menelik, Prince Poetry, Pharoah Monch, Grisha Coleman, Killah Priest, Mariko Mori (vocals); Julia Scher (spoken vocals); Vinicius Cantuaria (acoustic guitar); Akin Atoms, Lucio Maia, Thurston Moore (guitar); Mica Gaugh (saxophone); Ben Neill (trumpet); Manny Oquendo (keyboards); Dhengue (bass); Karsh Kale, Pupilo (drums); Jorge Du Peixe, Gilmar Bola, Gira (tamboras); Toca Ogan, Marcos Matias (percussion); Chris Flam (programming).
Principally recorded at Bass Hit Recording, New York, New York.
Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky, had a lot to live up to in following up CONFESSIONS OF A DEAD DREAMER. That album became an instant "illbient" classic, merging too many musical streams to enumerate, united by Spooky's reconstrunctionist ethic and adventurous DJ chops. On RIDDIM WARFARE, Spooky declines to play it safe, instead pushing the envelope even further. A major new development is the participation of rappers Kool Keith, Killah Priest, Organized Konfusion and others, who add an urgency to the proceedings that never becomes overbearing. As usual, Spooky comes off a bit messianic, determined to impart his socio-cultural observations and cerebral musings to listeners. But with an artist of Spooky's talents, the didacticism doesn't get in the way of the lush, varied textures he creates. Incorporating '70s funk, jazz, electronics, world music and his own electric and acoustic bass playing, Spooky remakes the world in his own image on RIDDIM WARFARE.
Industry Reviews
8 (out of 10) - ...RIDDIM WARFARE is peppered with authorial micro-lectures...delivered in an uneasy tone midway between professor and B-boy. It's a shame, because this music is more than capable of speaking for itself...
Spin (10/01/1998)
...Spooky's headphone-designed sonic whirlpool flows from break beats to underwater-UFO effects--plus, this time, rapping, a Thurston Moore guitar drone, and Spooky's own jazz bass lines... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (10/02/1998)
...DJ Spooky is hip hop's in-house intellectual....On RIDDIM WARFARE, Spooky is hardwired into his own sonic search engine, plucking phantom radio broadcasts, vintage jazz albums, and other 'fragments of the world'--throwing them all into his supercollider...
Vibe (10/01/1998)
...There's some terrific music on RIDDIM WARFARE...
NME (04/03/1999)
3 stars (out of 5) - ...Proof that futurism can be fun.
...Spooky's headphone-designed sonic whirlpool flows from break beats to underwater-UFO effects--plus, this time, rapping, a Thurston Moore guitar drone, and Spooky's own jazz bass lines...
Entertainment Weekly (10/02/1998)
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