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Thievery Corporation

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Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. [1]

70 relations: Acid jazz, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Blurb, Inc., Bossa nova, Brazil, Cal Tjader, Chill-out music, Culture of Fear, David Byrne, DJ-Kicks: Thievery Corporation, Downtempo, Dub music, Electronic music, Electronica, Emilíana Torrini, English language, ESL Music, FedExField, French language, Grammy Award, Habeas corpus, Hindi, Hip hop, HIV/AIDS, Indian classical music, Iraq War, Italian language, Jazz, João Gilberto, João Gilberto (1973 album), Landover, Maryland, Latin jazz, Lebanese Blonde, Lollapalooza, Lounge music, Luiz Bonfá, Middle East, Music of Brazil, Pam Bricker, Paul McCartney, Perry Farrell, Persian language, Photo-book, Portuguese language, Radio Retaliation, Red Hot Organization, Reggae, Romanian language, Saudade (Thievery Corporation album), Sérgio Mendes, ..., Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi, Spanish language, Stone Flower (album), The Cosmic Game, The Flaming Lips, The Mirror Conspiracy, The Recording Academy, The Richest Man in Babylon (album), The Washington Post, Thievery Corporation, Timbre, Trip hop, Versions (Thievery Corporation album), Verve Records, Washington, D.C., Wayne Coyne, Wes Montgomery, World Food Programme, 9:30 Club. Expand index (20 more) »

Acid jazz

Acid jazz, also known as club jazz, is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, soul, funk, and disco.

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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Blurb, Inc.

Blurb is an American self-publishing platform that enables their users to create, self-publish, promote, share, and sell their own print and ebooks.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cal Tjader

Callen Radcliffe "Cal" Tjader, Jr. (July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician.

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Chill-out music

Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined style of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods.

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Culture of Fear

Culture of Fear is the sixth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on June 28, 2011 by ESL Music.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker.

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DJ-Kicks: Thievery Corporation

DJ-Kicks: Thievery Corporation is a DJ mix album, mixed by Thievery Corporation. It was released on May 10, 1999 on the Studio !K7 independent record label as part of the DJ-Kicks series. In 2009 it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.

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Downtempo

Downtempo (sometimes used synonymously with "trip hop") is a genre of electronic music similar to ambient music, but with a greater emphasis on beats and a less "earthy" sound than trip hop.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Emilíana Torrini

Emilíana Torrini Davíðsdóttir (born 16 May 1977), better known as Emilíana Torrini, is an Icelandic singer and songwriter.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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ESL Music

Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (ESL Music) is an independent record label based in Washington, D.C. founded by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton in 1996.

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FedExField

FedExField (originally Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) is a football stadium located in Landover, Maryland near the Capital Beltway (I-495) in Prince George's County, Maryland, U.S., near the site of the old Capital Centre (later called USAir Arena in 1993 and US Airways Arena in 1996).

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin meaning literally "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Indian classical music

Indian classical music is a genre of South Asian music.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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João Gilberto

João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto (June 10, 1931), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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João Gilberto (1973 album)

João Gilberto is a bossa nova album by João Gilberto, originally released in Brazil as a vinyl LP in 1973 and reissued on CD in 1988.

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Landover, Maryland

Landover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

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Latin jazz

Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms.

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Lebanese Blonde

"Lebanese Blonde" is a 1997 single released by the Thievery Corporation and later added to their 2000 album The Mirror Conspiracy.

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Lollapalooza

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music bands and artists, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.

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Lounge music

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Luiz Bonfá

Luiz Floriano Bonfá (17 October 1922 – 12 January 2001) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Music of Brazil

The music of Brazil encompasses various regional musical styles influenced by African, European and Amerindian forms.

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Pam Bricker

Pamela Carroll Bricker (July 7, 1954 – February 20, 2005) was a jazz singer and professor of music at George Washington University.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein; March 29, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Photo-book

A photo-book or photobook is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Radio Retaliation

Radio Retaliation is the fifth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on September 23, 2008 by ESL Music.

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Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization (RHO) is a not-for-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; autonym: limba română, "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is an East Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

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Saudade (Thievery Corporation album)

Saudade (Portuguese for "Longing") is the seventh studio album by Washington DC electronica duo Thievery Corporation released in 2014 via their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music label.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin

Silencio.

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Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi

Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi is the debut studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Stone Flower (album)

Stone Flower is the fifth album by Antônio Carlos Jobim.

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The Cosmic Game

The Cosmic Game is the fourth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on February 22, 2005 by ESL Music.

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The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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The Mirror Conspiracy

The Mirror Conspiracy is the second studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on April 2, 2000 by ESL Music.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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The Richest Man in Babylon (album)

The Richest Man in Babylon is the third studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thievery Corporation

Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Trip hop

Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol.

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Versions (Thievery Corporation album)

Versions is an album by Thievery Corporation, released in May 2006.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wayne Coyne

Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician.

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Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist.

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World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

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9:30 Club

The 9:30 Club, originally named Nightclub 9:30, also known simply as the 9:30, is a nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C., which was originally housed in the ground floor rear room of the Atlantic Building at 930 F Street NW, in the city's downtown area, where it opened on May 31, 1980,Du Lac, J. Freedom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thievery_Corporation

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