Thievery Corporation

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Thievery Corporation
Thievery Corporation at Lollapalooza Festival (2006)
Thievery Corporation at Lollapalooza Festival (2006)
General information
origin Washington, DC , USA
Genre (s) Electronica , downbeat
founding 1996
Website thieverycorporation.com
Founding members
Rob Garza
Eric Hilton

Thievery Corporation is an American music group founded in 1996 , consisting of musicians Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. Their music is a mixture of downbeat , lounge and nu-jazz sounds with elements of bossa nova , dub and Jamaican reggae .

history

Eric Hilton and Rob Garza met in 1996 at the Eighteenth Street Lounge club in Washington, DC , which had recently been opened by Hilton and Farid Nouri. Garza and Hilton began to mix different sounds from dub , bossa nova and oriental music themselves , which they played mostly in the Eighteenth Street Lounge. From this collaboration, the DJ duo Thievery Corporation and their own record label Eighteenth Street Lounge Music emerged in the same year .

Two years later, the singles Shaolin Satellite and 2001: A Spliff Odyssey and their debut album Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi were released in 1997 . The latter appeared in the American and 1998 in the European version, followed by a re-release in 2006. Guest musicians include the jazz singer Pam Bricker and the Brazilian musician Bebel Gilberto on the album.

After extensive touring, Thievery Corporation released their second studio album, The Mirror Conspiracy , in 2000 , as did all previous albums on their own record label Eighteenth Street Lounge. The song Lebanese Blonde was used in Zach Braff's 2004 film Garden State . After 33,000 units of the first album were sold, 119,000 units have now been sold.

In October 2002, The Richest Man was released in Babylon , the sound of which is based on their previous album and also relies on many guest musicians, including Pam Bricker, Emilíana Torrini and the Jamaican rapper Notch.

In 2005, Eric Hilton and Rob Garza published The Cosmic Game . Then the oriental, bossa nova and dub also join rock, because this time Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction , David Byrne , who became known with the Talking Heads , and the Flaming Lips can be heard. Her first remix album Versions was released a year later . The following tour was photographed by the band's guitarist Rob Myers and marketed as an online photo book under the name Thievery Corporation in 2006 .

In 2008 Radio Retaliation came on the market and again relies on many guest musicians. The album was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Recording Package . In 2010, It Takes a Thief was released , a best-of album from the band's studio albums from previous years. Her sixth studio album, Culture of Fear , was released in June 2011. In addition to other guest musicians, Shana Halligan from Bitter: Sweet lent her voice for the track Is It Over? .

On February 10, 2017, the album The Temple of I & I was released , which was also followed by a European tour. At the two-hour concert in Berlin on February 24, 2017, numerous guest musicians took part: percussions, drums, singers, the use of sitar, electric bass and guitars (also played by Rob Garza) made the show a live one -Spectacle.

The appearance of the musicians on and next to the stage is described as smart, but the music should, in contrast, not sound cold, stiff, sterile and prefabricated. You admit that it is no easy undertaking to weave a coherent unit out of the very different musical set pieces.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2000 The Mirror Conspiracy DE32 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT48 (1 week)
AT 		- UK76 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: April 2, 2000
2002 The Richest Man in Babylon DE42 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT45 (5 weeks)
AT 		- - US150 (2 weeks)
US
First published: September 30, 2002
2005 The Cosmic Game DE50 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT48 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH79 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK74 (1 week)
UK 		US94 (4 weeks)
US
First published: February 22, 2005
2008 Radio retaliation - - CH79 (1 week)
CH 		- US35 (5 weeks)
US
First published: September 23, 2008
2011 Culture of Fear - - CH52 (1 week)
CH 		- US52 (2 weeks)
US
First published: June 28, 2011
2014 Saudade - - - UK78 (1 week)
UK 		US58 (1 week)
US
First published: March 25, 2014
2017 The Temple of I & I DE37 (1 week)
DE 		AT18 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH60 (1 week)
CH 		- US111 (1 week)
US
First published: February 10, 2017
2018 Treasures from the Temple DE49 (1 week)
DE 		AT21 (1 week)
AT 		CH47 (1 week)
CH 		- -
First published: April 20, 2018

more publishments

  • 1996: Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi
  • 1999: Abductions & Reconstructions
  • 1999: DJ kicks
  • 2002: Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi
  • 2004: The Outernational Sound
  • 2004: Babylon Rewound
  • 2006: Versions
  • 2010: It Takes a Thief

Singles (chart successes)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1998 Lebanese Blonde
The Mirror Conspiracy 		- - - UK96 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: November 17, 1998

Web links

Commons : Thievery Corporation  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Eighteenth Street Lounge, History ( Memento from January 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) old version of the website from January 4, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Paoletta: Thievery Returns On Eighteenth St. In: Billboard . August 31, 2002, Dance / Electronic, p. 39 .
  3. ↑ a b S [teven] T [homsen]: Thievery Corporation. The Cosmic Game . In: Eclipsed . No. 70 , March 2005, p. 50 .
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US