About Thievery Corporation
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 and Brazilian music, including bossa nova.
Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.'s Eighteenth Street Lounge. Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova 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.
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. Their 1998 single "Lebanese Blonde", later included in their 2000 studio album, The Mirror Conspiracy, was featured on the Garden State film soundtrack.
In 2001, they released Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi, a "best of" compilation of 1960s–1970s material of Verve Records that includes jazz, bossa nova and latin jazz works from artists Cal Tjader, Wes Montgomery, Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66, and Luiz Bonfá.
In the early Fall of 2002 they released The Richest Man in Babylon on their ESL label, featuring performances by vocalists Notch, Emilíana Torrini, Pam Bricker, and Loulou.
In 2004, they released The Cosmic Game, which has a darker, more psychedelic sound than The Richest Man in Babylon. The album also featured more high-profile guest singers on it, including Perry Farrell, David Byrne, and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.
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