The stridently political Radio Retaliation is more interesting lyrically, but sonically it's essentially more of the same despite faster tempos and a fresh line-up of guest singers.
Treasures from the Temple is just plain dull. Most Thievery albums post- Babylon find the duo sticking to a well-honed formula; aural wallpaper for trendy house music types to chill out to. That's the trouble with finding a nice comfy lounge: you want to stay there. Live on stage, however, there remains a good deal of vitality and the duo's expanded touring band is well worth catching should they ever swing by your city.
Of Thievery Corporation's DJ mixes available to buy, the best is their excellent entry in the DJ Kicks series from , which for some fans remains the highlight of their album output despite having only two of their own compositions.
A travelogue of old inspirations - like bachelor pad soundtrack icon Les Baxter - along with Indian sitar melodies and cutting-edge lounge productions, it marks them as selectors and mixers of note and sits comfortably alongside Kruder and Dorfmeister's classic from the same series. Back to A-Z Essential Albums index. The sounds of bossanova, reggae and hip hop are the basic building blocks of their subtle electro-acoustic sound, further spiced with horns, lush synths, global exotica and a smattering of guest vocalists.
You mention bringing band members along with you — presumably so you could jam out tunes? At that early stage in Jamaica, did you focus on EQing the recordings in any way, or did you save that for later? You have a lot of vocal collaborators on the album. We did get to collaborate with Raquel Jones who I met, oddly, the first time I went down to Jamaica on vacation.
She was actually doing a few demos over Thievery tracks, and I thought it was fascinating that a Jamaican artist was using our music as a mixtape.
And Notch, who is pretty much one of our favourite all-time vocalists, is on at least four songs on this record. What are some of the lyrical themes explored on the album? But with Raquel Jones, she wrote all of her own lyrics, and whenever we collaborate with Notch we tend to write most of the lyrics, but he might contribute a line or two. I found this collection of abandoned buildings a while back in a really good part of town.
To the side of it we have a modest-sized sound room and a small 10 x 10 isolation room for recording vocals or drums and stuff. We have a lot of outboard gear too, a lot of vintage compressors that we use a lot. We use a lot of vintage keys, like a real Wurlitzer keyboard and an old Lowrey organ. But we basically stopped engineering our own stuff after our second album, so we rely on an engineer these days. You mentioned you were using the same speakers you were 20 years ago….
The last thing you want is a pair of speakers that make everything sound great. The worst of the worst would be the Yamaha NS10s.
My god, those things sound awful. Does the fact that consumers listen to music on so many different devices impact how you mix or master your records? Has that element of portability helped you in your production process at all, like using a laptop on a plane, for example? But it is helpful; I like playing around with software and a micro keyboard sometimes to come up with a cool groove or an idea, but it all has to be redone.
It may have also hurt us in that when you concentrate all of your energy into one particular sound you might actually blow up a little bit bigger and faster, but then you might also come down faster. The following year, more tracks from their Jamaican sessions emerged -- these were collated alongside various remixes for their companion album, Treasures from the Temple. They helped to re-launch the performance area at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in , accompanied by up-and-coming classical musicians.
To commemorate the performance, they re-recorded a selection of their live staples with Prague's Filmharmonic Orchestra , going on to release them on the compilation album Symphonik in AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
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