Thievery Corporation

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Resolution
The Heart's a Lonely Hunter thievery corp remix radio edit

Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge Music

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A seamless mix of jazzy lounge grooves, bone shaking dub rhythm, and world influences.

Formed in the Eighteenth Street Lounge, the now renowned incubator of the DC underground. Rob Garza and club co owner Eric-Hilton bonded over strong drinks, Dub Reggae, Brazilian Bossa Nova and vintage film soundtracks culminating in the birth of Thievery Corporation. The duo took their mutual influences along with select cuts from their record collections and threw everything into a recording studio in their native Washington. The end product was their debut, “Sounds from the Thievery Hi Fi” (1997) defining their own genre of electronic music and connecting with like-minded souls worldwide.

Later offerings saw the duo step up their game on the production front whilst still sticking to their wonderfully eclectic formula, the move clearly paid off with their track “Lebanese Blonde” which appeared on the Grammy award winning Garden State Soundtrack. As awareness has grown in the international community so has their list of collaborations, working with a widely varied bunch of prolific artists such as David Byrne and Perry Farrel.

Their most recent output “Radio Retalliation” (2008) is in keeping with the template they’ve already laid down for their appreciative audience. A seamless mix of jazzy lounge grooves, bone shaking dub rhythm, and a heavy injection of world influences.