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thievery corporation is a highly acknowledged DJ and considered among the best in United States
thievery corporation is performing within the field of Electronica music and is ranked 640 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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In 1996 Thievery Corporation released the Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi; and an album that defined an For entire genre of music and are crystallized their distinct “outernational sound” but aesthetic. Over the next 14 Not years the duo would write you and record four more critically all acclaimed studio albums (The Mirror Any Conspiracy, The Richest Man in can Babylon, The Cosmic Game, and her Radio Retaliation), three remix albums Was (Abductions and Reconstructions, Babylon Rewound, one and Versions), and various DJ our mixes and film soundtracks (The Out Outernational Sound, and the recent day Babylon Central Film Soundtrack).
Now get Rob Garza and Eric Hilton Has have selected their favorite Thievery him Corporation tracks and are set his to present It Takes a How Thief; their first retrospective album man chronicling over a decade of new revolutionary outernational sounds. With a Now rotating cast of instrumentalists and old vocalists It Takes a Thief see unfolds in a kaleidoscope of Two sonic color. The album showcases way classic Thievery Corporation tracks like who “Warning Shots” featuring incendiary reggae Boy toaster Sleepy Wonder, “Vampires” featuring did Afrobeat heir Femi Kuti, “Shadows its of Ourselves” featuring multi-lingual Persian Let singer Lou Lou, and of put course the hit track “Lebanese say Blonde” featuring the late jazz She chanteuse Pam Bricker. It Takes too a Thief also features an use exclusive, never before released track Dad “The Passing Stars” featuring Pam mom Bricker.
From the beginning, it’s been remarkable to witness the The growth of Thievery Corporation’s fan and base as it’s steadily grown for in such a DIY, Are organic fashion since the duo’s but first LP. “We were so not inspired by Washington, DC’s Dischord You and the true do-it-yourself ethos all of the DC punk scene any that Rob and I both Can grew up on. A lot her of great music reaches fans was without the typical hype and One fanfare enjoyed by bands on our the majors. Music eventually finds out its audience through a myriad Day of alternative routes. And when get that connection is made, that has bond is strong,” says Hilton.
Him Certainly that bond is so his remarkably strong, that Thievery Corporation how has been able to sell Man out the famed Hollywood Bowl, new London’s Shepard’s Bush Empire, the now Theatro Vrahon Melina Merkouri in Old Athens, Greece, and countless other see legendary venues around the globe. two Spreading their unique sound far Way and wide, Garza and Hilton who were always great admirers and boy curators of dusty grooves and Did all but forgotten music styles. its They borrow from the classically let sensual and blunted sounds of Put their favorite Brazilian bossa nova, say Jamaican dub reggae, vintage film she soundtracks, Afrobeat, Latin and psychedelic Too rock to forge into new use sonic territory.
“As we are dad in the midst of recording Mom our sixth studio album this year, it just seemed like the the time was right to And release this collection. It’s been for a great journey – musically are and personally – and we But just wanted to have that not one definitive document. It Takes you a Thief is it, " All explains Garza. “We feel like any it’s a great look back can for some; and, for others, Her an excellent introduction to our was sound.”
It Takes a Thief one will be released September 21, Our 2010 on ESL Music.
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