Thievery Corporation - Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi (Reis)
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Artist: Thievery CorporationEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Eighteenth Street
Soundtracks:
- A Warning (Dub)
- 2001 Spliff Odyssey
- Shaolin Satellite
- Transcendence
- Universal Highness
- Incident At Gate 7
- Scene at the Open Air Market
- The Glass Bead Game
- Encounters in Bahia
- The Foundation
- Interlude
- The Oscillator
- Assault On Babylon
- .38.45 (A Thievery Number)
- One
- Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Sleeper Car
Free Music Notes for Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi (Reis)
Free Music Review: Thievery Corporation combines many genres and satisfies easily
Hit: 5 Stars
The Washington, D.C. pair of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, known as the Thievery Corporation, came onto the electronic music scene with the release of their first album, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi. The duo attempted to bring various genres of music together into a broad-ranging electronic lounge experience. They succeeded completely with their first effort, and continued that success with their subsequent albums. Dub music, hip-hop beats, and trippy sequences combine with ambient textures and electronic tones smoothly to create an album that flows back and forth from great dance tunes to trippy ambient music. At times it may seem slightly disjointed, but the sheer variety of music experienced in one album easily makes up for this. If you are at all interested in hearing these different genres of music combined masterfully, you must listen to this album.
Thievery Corporation takes a wide array of traditional instruments, changes them in the studio, and then combines them with other electronic noises. This creates a sound that moves from being very electronic sounding to more natural sounding at times. You will hear piano, drums, and trumpet mixed in with occasional vocals and electronic tones created solely in a studio. Although Garza and Hilton draw from many instruments and genres, some stick out more in this album than others. The album is full of very strong beats, often reminiscent of various hip-hop bass lines. Thievery sometimes ventures even further into the realm of hip-hop, such as in the song "Shaolin Satellite," which features hip-hop inspired vocals that lend a dance side to the track. In addition to hip-hop, one of the most common features that pop up song after song on this album are dub and reggae sequences. When the background beat strays away from a slightly more recognizable hip-hop tone, a sped up combination of dub and hip-hop beats takes over. This is most notable in the song "38.45 (A Thievery Number)." In addition to this, most of the vocals throughout the album are reggae and dub inspired. "2001 Spliff Odyssey" and "Assault on Babylon" both rely heavily on this and sound more like dub than almost anything else. Both the hip-hop and dub facets of the album work to create sharp and creative sounds, but the incredible lounge aspect of the album comes from the broad ambient noises in the background of each song. Whether it is a dance tune or a slower lazy song, electronic tones spread across the background of each track. Notable especially in "Transcendence," "The Glass Bead Game," and "The Oscillator," these textures tie the whole album together and create an easy listening but very complex work.
In summary, if you are looking for music that transcends any one specific label and combines the best aspects of dub music, hip-hop, reggae, and electronic music into a dance and lounge combination, then this is an album you need to add to your collection as soon as possible. You will not be disappointed by the work put in by Thievery Corporation.
Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi (Reis) Poster
Reissue of the classic debut album. Includes 2 new tracks plus new digipack packaging. Originally released in 1999, this album started a movement which has propelled the Thievery Corporation to leaders of the electronic music genre, and masters' of their own marketing juggernaut.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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