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Fri, Sep 24, 2010, 12:00
- Washington DC's downtempo duo will release It Takes a Thief in November.
Thievery Corporation will release a retrospective collection, It Takes a Thief, next month to mark 15 years of their production partnership.
Widely renowned as one of the most successful downtempo acts, Thievery Corporation came together when Rob Garza and Eric Hilton met at Eighteenth Street Lounge in 1995 and quickly formed a musical partnership over a shared admiration for '60s bossa music. After forming Thievery Corporation and inking their own indie label, Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, their debut album, Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, was released in 1997. Containing worldly influences of bossa nova, dub and latin percussion, Sounds... is considered a classic of the downtempo/trip hop era, amongst work by similarly defining acts like Massive Attack and Portishead. Four studio albums followed, including most recent LP Radio Retaliation in 2008, as did remix albums, various DJ mixes and soundtrack work.
The compilation's 16 tracks have been selected by Garza and Hilton to appeal to both longtime fans and new listeners. These include their collaboration with Afrobeat heir Femi Kuti, "Vampires," the reggae inclined "Warning Shots" with Sleepy Wonder, crossover hit "Lebanese Blonde," and an exclusive unreleased track "The Passing Stars" featuring late jazz chanteuse Pam Bricker. It Takes a Thief will be released ahead of a forthcoming winter US tour, and a new Thievery Corporation album in 2011.
Tracklist:
01. Amerimacka
02. Lebanese Blonde
03. Facing East
04. Holographic Universe
05. Shadows of Ourselves
06. Sound the Alarm
07. Until the Morning
08. Sweet Tides
09. Satyam Shivam Sundaram
10. All That We Perceive
11. Air Batucada
12. Exilio (Rewound)
13. Vampires
14. Warning Shots
15. The Richest Man in Babylon
16. The Pasing Stars
Eighteenth Street Lounge will release Thievery Corporation's It Takes A Thief on November 15th.