Intonarumori (album) explained

Intonarumori
Type:	Album
Artist:	Material
Cover:	Intonarumori (album).jpg
Released:	1999
Genre:	Hip hop, trip hop, alternative
Label:	Axiom / Palm Pictures, PALMCD 2019-2
Producer:	Bill Laswell, Scotty Hard, Eddie Def, DXT, Hideo Tanaka, Mr. Len (Company Flow), Extrakd, Dark Matter, Abu El Mustaf
Prev Title:	Hallucination Engine
Prev Year:	1994

Intonarumori is an album by the New York–based music group Material, released in 1999.^[1]

Critical reception

The Cleveland Scene wrote: "While Intonarumori boasts a dizzying variety of artists, its themes—Pan-Africanism, the need to review history through Afrocentric eyes, the stifling aspects of official white culture—are perhaps richer than those of Imaginary Cuba [Laswell's concurrent solo album]."^[2]

Track listing

1. Rammellzee – "Intime" (Rammellzee, Bill Laswell) – 1:11
2. Kool Keith and Kut Masta Kurt – "Conspiracies" (Keith Thornton, Kurt Matlin, Laswell) – 4:22
3. Extrakd and Eddie Def – "Rodent Robots" (S. Freeman, E. Garcia) – 1:32
4. Flavor Flav, phonosycographDISK and DXT – "Burnin'" (William Drayton, Laswell, Derek Showard) – 4:36
5. Extrakd and Eddie Def – "Who Wakes the Rooster?" (Freeman, Garcia) – 1:19
6. Juggaknots feat. Breeze & Queen Heroine – "This Morning" (L. Smythe, P. Smith, K. Smith) – 3:57
7. Rammellzee and phonosycographDISK – "No Guts No Galaxy" (Rammellzee, Laswell) – 4:47
8. Killah Priest – "Temple of the Mental" (Walter Reed, Laswell) – 6:09
9. Lori Carson and Bernie Worrell – "All That Future" (Lori Carson, Laswell) – 5:38
10. Nature Boy Jim Kelly – "My Style Is I Ain't Got No Style" (Jason Furlow, Laswell) – 4.54
11. Extrakd and Eddie Def – "Snipers for Biters" (S. Freeman, E. Garcia) – 1:46
12. Scotty Hard, Elwood and Ted Parsons – "Checkpoint 0.1" (Scott Harding) – 3:54
13. Ahlill the Transcending Soldier and Alicia Blue – "Mind Drift" (Taylor, Laswell) – 6:06
14. The Ghetto Prophets and DXT – "Life Itself" (K. Hassan, Laswell) – 3:26
15. Alicia Blue – "Flow" (Alicia Smith, Laswell) 3:53
16. Ahlill the Transcending Soldier, phonosycographDISK and Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey – "Freestyle Journal" (E. Taylor, Laswell) – 4:54
17. Rammellzee – "" (Rammellzee, Laswell) – 3:52

Production

• Recorded and mixed at Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, NJ and at Greenpoint Studios, Brooklyn, NY.
• Additional recording at Greene Street Recording, NYC, Ozone Studios, NYC and Gonervill Studios, Oakland, CA.
• Engineering: Robert Musso, Scott Harding, Vassos & Paul.
• Production: Bill Laswell, Scotty Hard, Eddie Def, DXT, Hideo Tanaka, Mr. Len (Company Flow), Extrakd, Dark Matter, Abu El Mustafa

Release history

• 1999 – Axiom / Palm Pictures, PALMCD 2019-2 (CD)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Material | Biography & History. AllMusic.
2. Web site: Playback. Cleveland Scene.