Artist: Thievery Corporation: mp3 download Genre(s): Trip-Hop Ambient Dance Electronic Discography: The Cosmic Game Year: 2005 Tracks: 16 Babylon Rewound Year: 2004 Tracks: 8 The Richest Man In Babylon Year: 2002 Tracks: 15 Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi Year: 2002 Tracks: 15 Richest Man In Babylon Year: 2002 Tracks: 15 The Mirror Conspiracy Year: 2000 Tracks: 13 DJ Kicks Year: 1999 Tracks: 18 Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi Year: 1997 Tracks: 16 Cosmic Game Year: Tracks: 16 Thievery Corporation make lift, instrumental, mid-tempo dance euphony somewhere betwixt trip-hop and acid jazz. The production duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, Thievery Corporation released a few warmly standard singles on their have Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label (named for their Washington, D.C. browning automatic rifle and cabaret) in 1996. Previously known primarily among sulphurous wind and rare-groove DJs, the group shot to nonaged fame when a cut from i of their early 12"'s appeared on respected DJ/producers Kruder & Dorfmeister's commix session for Studio K7's DJ Kicks series. Similar in many respects (and more than just numeral) to that Viennese production duo, Thievery Corporation after grew in popularity among a wider hearing of DJs and headphonaunts. Their debut uncut appeared in 1997, along with a compilation of Washington, D.C.-based electronica artists, Dubbed Out in DC (both on ESL). After 4AD signed the duette they began work on their second LP only were constrained to keep over the spill engagement after tapes were stolen in a mugging. The stopgap remix compilation Abductions & Reconstructions was released in 1999, and their second proper album The Mirror Conspiracy followed a twelvemonth later. Their growth renown made them a natural to blue-ribbon tracks for the 2001 Verve compilation Sounds From the Verve Hi-Fi, and nonpareil year later, the duet returned with a third base cartesian product LP, The Richest Man in Babylon. The mix album Outernational Sound and remix EP Babylon Rewound appeared in 2004. The Cosmic Game from 2005 featured guest vocalists Perry Farrell, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, and David Byrne. A twelvemonth after a second gear remix compilation, Versions, was released. |