Riddim Warfare

Studio album by DJ Spooky
Released	1998 (1998)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The A.V. Club	favorable^[2]
CMJ New Music Monthly	favorable^[3]
Vibe	favorable^[4]

Riddim Warfare is a 1998 studio album by DJ Spooky. It includes contributions from Sir Menelik, Kool Keith, Killah Priest, Thurston Moore, Ben Neil, Arto Lindsay, and Mariko Mori.^[5]

Critical reception

John Bush of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, commenting that "Only one man could conceive of an album including turntable battles, a workout for Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, and a spoken-word piece on the same album."^[1] Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club said, "the record is a surprisingly lithe and notably straightforward exercise in hip-hop psychedelia."^[2] Marc Weingarten of Vibe called it "the most cohesive and rhythmically righteous album of his career."^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Paul D. Miller, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pandemonium"		1:29
2.	"Synchronic Disjecta"		4:26
3.	"Object Unknown"	Paul D. Miller, Keith Thornton, L. Phillip Collington, Jr., Larry Smith, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels	5:14
4.	"It's Nice Not to Lose Your Mind"		0:36
5.	"Dialectical Transformation I (A Parallax View)"		1:34
6.	"Post-Human Sophistry"		3:53
7.	"Quilombo Ex Optico"		3:32
8.	"Rekonstruction"	Paul D. Miller, Larry Baskerville, Troy Jamerson	4:42
9.	"Scientifik"	Paul D. Miller, L. Phillip Collington, Jr.	3:43
10.	"A Conversation"		3:26
11.	"Peace in Zaire"		7:59
12.	"Dialectical Transformation II (Du Nouveau Monde)"		1:14
13.	"Degree Zero"	Paul D. Miller, Walter Reed	4:50
14.	"Roman Planetaire"		3:57
15.	"Bass Digitalis"		1:02
16.	"Polyphony of One"		6:19
17.	"Riddim Warfare"	Paul D. Miller, Keith Thornton	3:20
18.	"The Nerd"		1:43
19.	"Dialectical Transformation III (Soylent Green)"		2:11
20.	"Theme of the Drunken Sailor"		5:18
21.	"Twilight Fugue"		2:12

Personnel

DJ Spooky – nmbara, wind chimes, gongs, street noises, additional vocals, bass, electric guitar on track 3, acoustic guitar on track 8
Sir Menelik – vocals on tracks 3, 9
Kool Keith – vocals on tracks 3, 17
Akin Atoms – guitar on tracks 4, 14, 20
Karsh Kale – drums on tracks 4, 14, 20
Arto Lindsay – guitar on track 7
Lucio Maia – guitar on track 7
Dhengue – bass on track 7
Jorge Du Peixe – drums on track 7
Gulmar Bola8 – drums on track 7
Gira – drums on track 7
Pupilo – drums on track 7
Toca Ogan – percussion on track 7
Marcos Matias – percussion on track 7
Prince Poetry – vocals on track 8
Pharoah Monch – vocals on track 8
Vinicius Cantuaria – acoustic guitar on track 8
Ambassador Jr. – vocals and scratches on track 10
Grisha Coleman – vocals on track 11
Killah Priest – vocals on track 13
Manny Oquendo – keyboard on tracks 14, 20
Micah Gaugh – saxophone on track 14
Julia Sher – vocals on track 16
Thurston Moore – guitar on track 19
Ben Neil – trumpet on track 20
Mariko Mori – vocals on track 21

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