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Radio & Podcasts

Eric Hilton: from Thievery Corporation to Corazón Kintsugi

Read "Eric Hilton: from Thievery Corporation to Corazón Kintsugi" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Today, the Spotlight shines on downtempo electronic music godfather and Thievery Corporation co-founder Eric Hilton. Eric joined us a few weeks after the September release of Corazón Kintsugi (Montserrat House), his album with longtime Thievery vocal collaborator Natalia Clavier. Eric produced, arranged, and played the majority of the instruments on the 9-track album, which fuses elements of dub, trip-hop, Bossa nova, vintage film music, and electronica with Natalia's emotive Spanish and Portuguese vocals. We ...

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Catching Up With

Rob Garza: Being Open-minded

Read "Rob Garza: Being Open-minded" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


DJ and producer Rob Garza has been known as one half of the kaleidoscopic duo Thievery Corporation, along with Eric Hilton. Earlier this year Garza released a collection of 14 remixes that he has done for artists such as Gogol Bordello, Tycho and Miguel Migs. Remixes is a crisscross concoction that merges beats, ambient waves, low --fi, psychedelic, deep house into an intriguing whole. On the other front, regarding Thievery Corporation, the band has been touring sporadically and has just ...

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Album Review

Thievery Corporation: The Outernational Sound

Read "The Outernational Sound" reviewed by AAJ Staff


In the ideal world, a collection of mixed tracks on disc should resemble something a DJ would put together on air or at a party. It needs flow, it needs balance, and it needs variety. Having spent time doing radio, I can speak for the importance of the big picture when assembling material from diverse sources.

The Outernational Sound comes in the form of a twenty-track set representing nineteen artists. It's been officially dubbed a DJ set by ...

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Performance / Tour

Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation | Cali | Review

Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation | Cali | Review

Source: JamBase

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation :: 11.05.10 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA In the biggest double bill to descend on the Santa Barbara Bowl in the last few years, new music masters Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack closed out the 2010 season. As part of the Santa Barbara New Noise Conference and Music Festival, the November 5th concert was the crown jewel of the three day event. New Noise brings musical events ...

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Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation | California | Review | Pics

Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation | California | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation :: 11.05.10 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA In the biggest double bill to descend on the Santa Barbara Bowl in the last few years, new music masters Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack closed out the 2010 season. As part of the Santa Barbara New Noise Conference and Music Festival, the November 5th concert was the crown jewel of the three day event. New Noise brings musical events ...

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Performance / Tour

Thievery Corporation | 01.20 | D.C.

Thievery Corporation | 01.20 | D.C.

Source: JamBase

Words & Images by: Dan Ettinger

Thievery Corporation :: 01.20.10 :: 9:30 Club :: Washington, D.C.

Thievery Corporation :: 01.20 :: Washington, D.C. From the initial chirps bubbling out of the 9:30 Club's massive speakers, it was immediately evident that Thievery Corporation wouldn't present a typical live set. As the subwoofers warmed the room and vibrated ribcages, a short World Food Programme documentary flashed across the background LCD ...

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Performance / Tour

Thievery Corporation | 2.28.09 | Pa

Thievery Corporation | 2.28.09 | Pa

Source: JamBase

Words & Images by: Jake Krolick

Thievery Corporation :: 03.19.09 :: Electric Factory :: Philadelphia, PA

Thievery Corporation :: 02.28 :: Philly As music evolved so did the modern musician. During the summer of 1995 Eric Garza was frequenting Washington DC's Eighteenth Street Lounge. There, he met co-owner Eric Hilton and the two connected as DJs and enthusiasts of global sounds. One thing led to another and the ...

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Recording

Thievery Corporation: The Bonus Round

Thievery Corporation: The Bonus Round

Source: JamBase

By: Chris Clark

Thievery Corporation Thievery Corporation has effectively become a household name over the years. Rising from the Washington D.C. underground and into the international spotlight, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have taken eclectic sounds from all corners of the globe and fashioned them into an exquisitely refined and decadently delivered anthology of life's rhythms. Dating back to 1996, they have taken a wholly organic approach to making music, incorporating a vast, dexterous inventory, ...

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Performance / Tour

Thievery Corporation | 06.26.08 | NYC

Thievery Corporation | 06.26.08 | NYC

Source: All About Jazz

Thievery Corporation :: 06.26.08 :: Central Park Summerstage :: New York, NY

Central Park Summerstage :: New York, NY Labeling Thievery Corporation's music isn't easy. The two artists who comprise the group's core, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, have labeled it “Outernational." It's reggae with Middle Eastern influences, dance electronica with the rhythmic complexities of West African music and their lyrics are sung in French, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. Perhaps that's why this ...

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Music Industry

VERVE RECORDS TO RELEASE THIEVERY CORPORATION'S SOUNDS FROM THE VERVE HI-FI

VERVE RECORDS TO RELEASE THIEVERY CORPORATION'S SOUNDS FROM THE VERVE HI-FI

Source: All About Jazz

DJ duo selects favorites songs from legendary label's archives

Verve Records will release Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi, a compilation of rare and classic Verve Records tracks chosen by renowned mixologists Thievery Corporation, on January 29th, 2002.

For Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation extracted a number of genre-spanning songs from the legendary label's vaults, creating a collection that displays the kind of musical variation which has characterized Verve since the 1960s; bossa ...

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Sound The Alarm / La...

Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
2009

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Radio Retaliation

InsideOut Music America
2008

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Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
2006

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The Outernational...

Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
2004

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The Mirror Conspiracy

Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
2000

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DJ-Kicks

Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
1999

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