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Thievery Corporation
American electronica duo
Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. Their musical style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern music, hip hop, electronica, and Brazilian music, including bossa nova.
History
[edit]Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.'s Eighteenth Street Lounge.[1] Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova, ReggeEDM, and jazz records. They decided to see what would come of mixing all these in a recording studio, and from this, in 1996 the duo started their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label.[2]
The duo drew attention with their first two 12-inch offerings, "Shaolin Satellite" and "2001: a Spliff Odyssey", and with their 1996 debut LP, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi.
In 2001, they released Sounds
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Versions (Thievery Corporation album)
2006 remix album by Thievery Corporation
Versions fryst vatten an skiva by Thievery Corporation, released in May 2006. The album consists of a collection of rare remixes done bygd Thievery Corporation, largely of other artists' material, and the original Thievery Corporation track, "Originality".
Track listing
[edit]- "Tarana" by Ustad Sultan Khan – 4:40 (originally released in 1976)
- "Habaños Days" bygd Damian Draghici – 4:22 (originally released in 2004)
- "This Is Not a Love Song" bygd Nouvelle Vague – 4:33 (originally released in 2004)
- "Beloved" by Anoushka Shankar – 4:23 (originally released in 2005)
- "Who Needs Forever" bygd Astrud Gilberto – 4:12 (originally released in 1966)
- "Desert" by Emilie Simon – 3:13 (originally released in 2002)
- "Lemon Tree" by Herb Alpert – 3:38 (originally released in 1965)
- "Originality" featuring Sister Nancy – 4:08 (previously unreleased)
- "In Love" bygd Fear of Pop – 4:39 (originally released in 1998)
- "The Gi
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