Thievery Corporation

Debut album Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1996 - 4AD, 1998) introduced mainly a duo of expert sampler manipulators. Languid dub grooves (less reverbed and more upbeat than in Jamaica), particularly dilated in 2001 Spliff Odyssey and Universal Highness, and laid-back hip-hop beats led to drowsy ambient tracks that sound like slow-motion, cubist versions of action movies soundtracks. A Warning Shaolin Satellite Vivid Manha The Glass Bead Game The Foundation Interlude The Oscillator So Vast As The Sky .38 .45 (A Thievery Number) Walking Through Babylon coined a trip-hop sound drenched in a surreal caribbean cocktail-lounge atmosphere.

Abductions And Reconstructions (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1999) is a mediocre album of remixes.

Another volume of remixes, DJ Kicks (K7, 1999), contains a classy take on their fusion of exotica and dub, It Takes A Thief.

Mirror Conspiracy (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 2000) is marred by excessive doses of Brazilian suadade, although the too-smooth Samba Tranquille is redeemed by the sprightly Air Batucada. Otherwise the duo's stylish touch is still raping dub echoes (Treasures, Shadows of Ourselves, Le Monde). and heavenly movie soundtracks (Focus On Sight, The Hong Kong Triad). Their fusion of bossanova, funk, hip hop, reggae and now even middle-eastern folk (Indra, Lebanese Blonde) has never been more confident, but their postmodern exercise runs the risk of taking all the fun out of the genres they (ab)use.

Thievery corporation e` il progetto di 2 D.J. di Washington, Eric Hilton e Rob Garza, che s'incontrarono per la prima volta nel 1995, quando Hilton inauguro` L'Eighteenth Street Lounge . Grazie alla loro passione per il reggae, la bossanova ed il jazz esordirono nell' ultra-drugged dub singles 2001, con Spliff Odissey(Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1996), Shaolin Satellite ed Universal Highness.

L'album di esordio ,Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1996 - 4AD, 1998), esalta principalmente entrambi, un duo di esperti del campionamento. Languidi solchi Dub (meno riverberati e piu` battute a levare rispetto al dub Jamaicano), Particolarmente dilatati in 2001 Spliff Odissey, il laid -back di ritmi hip-hop introduce una sonnolenta track che suona come una scena rallentata., versione cubista di una colonna sonora di un film d' azione. A Warning Shaolin Satellite Vivid Manha The Glass Bead Game The Foundation Interlude The Oscillator So Vast As The Sky .38 .45 (A Thievery Number). Walking Through Babylon

Coniando un suono trip-hop che s'impregna in una surreale atmosfera cocktail-lounge Caraibica.

Abductions And Reconstructions (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 1999) e` un mediocre album di remix..

Un altro volume di remix, DJ Kicks (K7, 1999), contiene una raffinata selezione delle loro miscele di exotica e dub , It Takes A Thief.

Mirror Conspiracy (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 2000) e` guastata da eccesive dosi di atmosfere brasiliane, anche sel troppo-liscie Samba Tranquille viene riscattata attraverso la vivace Air Batucada. A parte cio` il tocco di classe dei thievery insiste ancora su echi dub (Treasures, Shadows of Ourselves, Le Monde). E paradisiache colonne sonore (Indra, Focus On Sight, The Hong Kong Triad). La loro miscela di bossanova, funk, hip hop, reggae e adesso perfino ad un folk mediorientale (Lebanese Blonde) non sono mai stati piu` confidenziale , ma il loro postmoderno esercizio corre il rischio di prendere il tutto per divertimento al di fuori dei generi da loro abusati.

The Richest Man In Babylon (Eighteenth Street Lounge, 2002) is not so much pan-ethnic as pan-atmospheric. They do quote Middle Eastern music (the ethereal instrumental Facing East for oud and violin, the drunken Omid), Latin music (the Afro-Cuban Exilio, the bossanova Meu Destino), Jamaican music (the dub nirvana of The Outernationalist, the reggae-pop of The State of the Union, From Creation), and mix it with American music (the instrumental Liberation Front propelled by James Brown-ian horns), but in the most shamless vein of exploitation (pure syntax, no semantics). It is not surprising that the overall effect is one of a film-noir soundtrack, a more intense and cathartic version of Barry Adamson's imaginary scores (particularly Until The Morning, but also Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes Out, sung by Icelandic vocalist Emiliana Torrini, a radio-friendly trip-hop number). As purveyors of form over substance, the duo behind Thievery Corporation is beginning to deserve its name. Their fusion is the opposite of "adventurous".

Parts of The Outernational Sound (18th Street Lounge, 2004) are unusually lively and bouncy, but that is not enough to digest all the filler that is stuffed into the album.

A crowd of international guests turns The Cosmic Game (ESL Music, 2005) into their most sophisticated attempt at ethnic jazz-dub fusion. The results are largely formal, yielding elegant ballads such as Marching The Hate Machines (featuring the Flaming Lips), acid shuffles such as Holographic Universe, and assorted world-music such as Amerimacka.

Radio Retaliation (2008) and Culture of Fear (2011) were full of repetitions of old ideas, and not particularly well rehashed.

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