Trip-Hop Music: Thievery Corporation – Until The Morning

The Cosmic Lounge presents Trip-Hop Music: ‘Until The Morning’ by Thievery Corporation, feat. Emiliana Torrini. “Thievery Corporation is a Washington DC-based production and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton and their supporting artists. Their music can be characterized as downtempo/electronica with influences of dub, acid jazz, indian classical and brazilian styles fused together with a lounge aesthetic. Thievery Corporation is on the Eighteenth Street Lounge record label named after the swank DC club owned by Eric Hilton, but several of their singles and EP’s appear on the 4AD and !K7 labels. In 2002, they released The Richest Man in Babylon on their ESL label. This fifteen track album is similar in sound and timbre to The Mirror Conspiracy and features performances by vocalists Emiliana Torrini, Pam Bricker, and LouLou. Indra, the third track from The Mirror Conspiracy, was featured in the opening shots of The West Wing season five episode Gaza and in an MTV(India) promo for the programme Non Stop Hits. The group also received support from Scrubs star, Zach Braff, when Braff used the title track on ‘Lebanese Blonde (1998) on the soundtrack of his film Garden State. This resulted in boosted sales for the group after the film’s release.” www.last.fm
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Shades Of Rhythm – Extacy Ep Label: ZTT Catalog#: SAM 914 Format:Vinyl, 12″, Promo Country: UK Released: 1991 Style: Hardcore Notes: Promo release. Duration of track B2 is listed as 2:48. Tracklisting: A1: Extacy (5:44) A2: Dance To The Rhythm (4:30) A3: Everybody (4:30) B1: Groove Creator (4:50) B2: Old Spice (2:39) B3: Extacy (Instrumental) (4:38) Shades Of Rhythm Profile: Rayan Gee, Nick Slater and LANX (Kevin Lancaster) met when they were very young. They produced music for themselves and for the gigs they DJ’d at in their home town of Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) but they hit it big in 1989 when multiple tracks from their self pressed album “Frequency” took hold of the emerging Rave scene. The track that caught peoples attention were: Homicide, Exorcist, Sweet Sensation, Sound of Eden & Frequency. From a quite country town the boys got thrown into a rave whirlwind that still carries an inertia to this very day. Performing 2 to 4 times a week with other artists like the Prodigy,Njoi or K klass at raves like Raindance and Fantasia to clubs like the Astoria to the Hacienda it was the time of there lives, Shades were constantly on the road and this meant no more REAL work for them, their dancers, lighting and sound team “every day was a party” and it seemed at that time the whole country between the age of 18 and 30 thought exactly the same thing. Once they had been snapped up by a major record label in this case ZTT (Warned brothers)and between partying and gigging the …
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