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by: Thievery Corporation

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Average Rating: Rating: - A definite must-have I picked this up a few years back knowing nothing of Thievery Corporation or even what the hell they sounded like. I'd heard such disparate descriptions as 'bossa nova' and 'trip hop' thrown around, and that was enough to make me give it a shot. Glad I did too, since this is sublime 'driving late at night through the city', 'relaxing at home with a drink' music. It's very easy to make chillout music that people THINK is good, it's harder to make chillout music that actually IS good. We've all heard compilations or albums that fall in the 'downtempo' section that rely on tried and true cliches, and most of them don't hold up at all: 'program a slow beat, throw some mellow melody on top, repeat ad infinitum'. To be fair, Thievery Corp has more than a few repetitive tunes on this singles compilation as well, but the music is so good it's forgivable. There are few groups in this genre that are really any good, and like most artists in this new wave of 'techno/trance/drum n bass/downtempo/house' etc, there's a lot of stuff that will sound positively 18th century in a couple years. But this album is five years old, some of the tunes are older than that, and it still sounds fresh. It's a testament to the timeless style that this duo has, one that is in evidence on their excellent DJ Kicks compilation as well, and in their Mirror Conspiracy album and Abduction and Reconstructions remix collection to a lesser extent. Those are all good-to-great, but this is where to start. A classic. Rating: - Not as good as THE MIRROR CONSPIRACY, but solid Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, a.k.a. Thievery Corporation, released SOUNDS FROM THE THIEVERY HI-FI, their debut LP, on their Eighteenth Street Lounge label. Picked up for international distribution by the influential British label 4AD, SOUNDS gained world attention. And it deserved it, this album is an impressive survey of Jamaican dub rhythms, chill-out ambience, and breaks. Coming from Washington D.C., which has the largest Rastafarian community in the United States, Garza and Hilton are quite influenced by Jamaican traditional music and belief. Several tracks, most notably the tellingly titled "2001 Spliff Odyssey" and "Walking Through Babylon", use vocal samples from RASTAFARI ELDERS, a spoken-word CD that presents Rastafari that was issued in conjuction with the trip of seven Nyabinghi sect elders to the Smithsonian in 1991. "Shaolin Satellite" is reminiscent of Massive Attack's PROTECTION-era work. Other tracks like "Universal Highness" and "Incident At Gate Seven" are chill-out tracks, with soothing female vocal samples relaxing the listener. While I'm partial to the upper-class lounge of Thievery Corporation's second LP, THE MIRROR CONSPIRACY, I'd recommend SOUNDS FROM THE THIEVERY HI-FI to anyone who enjoys Jamaican-inspired dub or chill-out. Rating: - The album to start off your ESL music collection This was the first Thievery Corporation album I've purchased. I also have Abductions & Reconstructions, DJ Kicks, and the Mirror Conspiracy albums. Rob Garza & Eric Hilton are a creative duo who use a combonation to Brazilian Bossa Nova, Dub, Trip-hop, Lounge, Acid Jazz beats to perfection. In comparison to the other Thievery albums, Sounds from The Thievery Hi-Fi and Mirror Conspiracy are similiar. Abudctions & Reconstructions are remixes of other ESL music (18th Street Lounge record label) artists. Their DJ Kicks album demonstrates their artistic versatility. If you listen to a sample of tracks 5 & 6 on this album you will be hooked. Checkout www.eslmusic.com for more info on their albums, the 18th Street Lounge (where it all started for Rob & Eric). Plus it's a cool place to checkout the next time your in DC.

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