''Telicatessen'' is the debut solo album by

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hip hop artist and former Sonic Sum member Rob Sonic, released by the Definitive Jux label on September 7, 2004. An instrumental version of the album was released the following year, also by Definitive Jux. The album's title is a portmanteau word combining the terms " television" and " delicatessen".

Music

All production, lyrics and vocals were by Rob Sonic, with the exception of the verses on "Sniper Picnic" by fellow

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MC Creature and Alaska and Windnbreeze from Definitive Jux labelmates Hangar 18 and backing vocals by M. Sayyid of the group

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. Scratches were performed by Fred Ones from Sonic's former group the Sonic Sum, and by DJ Big Wiz.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Telicatessen'' received an average score of 74% based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Sonic's production was generally praised: a BBC review described the album's sound as "propulsive, hallucinogenic and inspiring," and RapReviews.com described it as "sonically adventurous" without verging into self-indulgence. His lyrics were widely regarded as highly abstract, which critics found to be both a strength ("two-second moments of total clarity bunched together and pouring out") and a weakness ("an endless stream of fleeting ideas").

Popular Media

The track "Sniper Picnic" was featured on the soundtrack of Activision game '' Tony Hawk's American Wasteland''.

Track listing

Equipment

The following equipment was used in the making of ''Telicatessen'': *

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* ARP Little Brother *

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* Yamaha SK-20 * Roland Juno-106 *

Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

Piano Bass Keyboard bass (shortened to keybass and sometimes referred as a synth-bass) is the use of a smaller, low-pitched keyboard with fewer notes than a regular keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass ...

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* Akai MPC 2000 XL *

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Credits

* Vocals, production: Rob Sonic * Scratching: DJ Big Wiz, Fred Ones * Additional vocals: Creature, Hangar 18, M. Sayyid *

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: El-P, Amaechi Uzoigwe * Mastering: Ken Heitmueller * Mixing: Fred Ones, Rob Sonic * Engineering: Fred Ones, Rob Sonic, Ruff-N-Rugged * Art Direction: Dan Ezra Lang * Design: Dan Ezra Lang, Rob Sonic * Illustrations: Dan Ezra Lang

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2004 debut albums Definitive Jux albums Rob Sonic albums