Thievery Corporation

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14.11.2007 00:00
REM and Beastie Boys will take part in festival in Florida
The organisators of the annual Langerado Festival 2008 have announced the initial line-up. The main bands that will take part in it are REM, Beastie Boys and !!!

Biography

Thievery Corporation is a jazz and electronica duet formed in Washington, DC. It started when Rob Garza and Eric Hilton met at one of the capital’s nightclubs in 1995. It emerged they had got similar music tastes and equally strong desire to play their own stuff. The debut singles, 2001 Spliff Oddyssey, and Shaolin Satllite, were recorded and produced by the young musicians at their own expenses and their own studio Eighteenth Street Lounge. These and the following album Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi (1997) set the precise direction in which Thieverey Corporation were going to work since then on. However, this direction was quite broad, as the music they played included trip hop and acid jazz, chill out and lounge. As if revealing the meaning of their own name, the duet did a proficient and big job to supplement their modernistic electronic sound with old reggae and pop music tunes to make them fresh and noticeable in this new form.

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