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The origin of Thievery Corporation can be traced back to the summer of
1995 when Rob Garza and Eric Hilton met at the now-infamous Eighteenth
Street Lounge club in Washington, D.C. USA.
The pair began develop a distinctive new genre in electronic music blending
Trip-Hop and Downtempo with Dub, Bossa Nova and Jazz; in early 1997 was
released the first album, "Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi",
which collected their first four singles.
"The Mirror Conspiracy" followed three years later, it contained
the seminal international hit, "Lebanese Blonde".
Assembling a compilation of Brazilian Pop-tunes as well as Acid-Jazz tracks,
in January 2001 Thievery Corporation released its third full-length disc,
"Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi", the set cracked the top 3 of
the Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums list.
Nearly two years later Garza and Hilton delivered their proper third album,
"The Richest Man In Babylon" which hit #1 on Billboard's Top
Heatseekers and peaked at #9 on the Top Independent Albums charts.
June 2004 saw the release of another mix-album, "The Outernational
Sound", which debuted at #20 on Billboard's Top Independent list.
Thievery Corporation returned in mid-2005 with "The Cosmic Game",
a chock full of the wide-ranging spectrum of sounds: Rock, Chill Out,
future-bossa, Dub as well as high profile collaborations with former Jane's
Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, The
Flaming Lips and David Byrne; the first radio single off of the CD
is "Revolution Solution", an intriguing blend of Thievery Corporation's
groove sensibilities and Perry Farrell's distinct vocal energy.
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