Riddim Warfare

e - "...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..."

l 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.|