Thievery Corporation mark 15 years with compilation

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  • Washington DC's downtempo duo will release It Takes a Thief in November.
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  • 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.
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