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

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

References

External links

• Riddim Warfare at Discogs (list of releases)