Telicatessen is the debut solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 by American

United States

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 hip hop

Hip hop music

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 artist and former Sonic Sum member Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic

Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among...

, released by the Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux is an independent record label based in New York City, United States. It was co-founded in 1999 by Jaime Meline and Amaechi Uzoigwe. The label was initially known simply as Def Jux, but in 2001, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name similarity...

 label

Record label

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 on September 7, 2004. An instrumental version of the album was released the following year, also by Definitive Jux.

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

New York City

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 MC

Rapping

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

Antipop Consortium

Antipop Consortium are an American alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City...

. Scratches

Turntablism

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

The album's title is a portmanteau word combining the terms "television

Television

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" and "delicatessen

Delicatessen

Delicatessen is a term meaning "delicacies" or "fine foods". The word entered English via German,with the old German spelling , plural of Delikatesse "delicacy", ultimately from Latin delicatus....

".

The track "Sniper Picnic" was featured on the soundtrack of Activision

Activision

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 game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

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Track listing

1. "Strange Hammer" (R. Smith
   Rob Sonic
   Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among...
   
   ) – 4:06
2. "Death Vendor" (R. Smith) – 3:07
3. "New Car Smell" (R. Smith) – 2:27
4. "Former Future" (R. Smith) – 2:05
5. "Super Ball" (R. Smith) – 4:00
6. "Sniper Picnic" (R. Smith/S. Booker/T. Baker/I. McMullin) – 3:40
   • Featuring Creature, Hangar 18
7. "Telicatessen" (R. Smith) – 3:19
8. "Behemoth" (R. Smith) – 3:28
9. "Shoplift" (R. Smith) – 3:38
10. "Dylsexia" (R. Smith) – 3:48
11. "Riot Ender" (R. Smith) – 3:59
12. "Location Is Everything" (R. Smith) – 3:55
13. "Macomb's Dam Bridge
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    " (R. Smith) – 4:48

Singles

• "Death Vendor"/"Dylsexia"
  • Release date: June 18, 2004
• "Shoplift"
  • Release date: October 22, 2004

Equipment

The following equipment was used in the making of Telicatessen:

• ARP Odyssey
  ARP Odyssey
  The ARP Odyssey was an analog synthesizer introduced in 1972. Responding to pressure from Moog Music to create a portable, affordable "performance" synthesizer, ARP scaled down its popular 2600 synthesizer and created the Odyssey, which became the best-selling synthesizer they made.The Odyssey is...
  
  
• ARP Little Brother
  ARP Little Brother
  The ARP Little Brother, produced from 1975 to 1977, is a keyboardless monophonic expander module, sold as an add-on for another ARP synthesizer. It was controlled by connecting the control voltage output of a ARP synthesizer's keyboard to the Little Brother's CV input.The Little Brother had a...
  
  
• Minimoog
  Minimoog
  The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. It was released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. , and production was stopped in 1981. It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager.The Minimoog was designed in response to the use of...
  
  
• Yamaha
  Yamaha
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   SK-20
• Roland Juno-106
  Roland Juno-106
  The Roland Juno-106 was a hybrid digital/analogue polyphonic synth manufactured by Roland Corporation in 1984. It featured Digitally controlled oscillators for tuning stability and digital envelope generation along with analog filters and signal path....
  
  
• Fender Rhodes
  Rhodes piano
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   Piano Bass
  Keyboard bass
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• Korg MS-2000
  Korg MS-2000
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• Akai MPC 2000 XL
• Technics SL-1200
  Technics SL-1200
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Credits

• Vocals
  Human voice
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  , production
  Hip hop production
  Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...
  
  : Rob Sonic
  Rob Sonic
  Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among...
  
  
• Scratching
  Turntablism
  Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...
  
  : DJ Big Wiz, Fred Ones
• Additional vocals: Creature, Hangar 18, M. Sayyid
• Executive producer
  Executive producer
  An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
  
  : El-P
  El-Producto
  El-P is an American hip hop artist and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York City. Originally a member of Company Flow, El-P has been a major driving force in alternative hip hop for over a decade. He is the co-founder, owner and CEO of the Definitive Jux record label...
  
  , Amaechi Uzoigwe
• Mastering: Ken Heitmueller
• Mixing: Fred Ones, Rob Sonic
• Engineering: Fred Ones, Rob Sonic, Ruff-N-Rugged
• Art
  Art
  Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
  
   Direction: Dan Ezra Lang
• Design: Dan Ezra Lang, Rob Sonic
• Illustrations: Dan Ezra Lang

External links

• Telicatessen at Metacritic
  Metacritic
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• Rob Sonic official site
• Def Jux Records official site