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Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi | 
| Artist: Thievery Corporation
Label: 4ad
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 13552
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 652637800623
EAN: 0652637800623
ASIN: B00000B8VV
Release Date: June 8, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | A warning (dub) | | • | 2001 spliff odyssey | | • | Shaolin satelitte | | • | Vivid | | • | Universal highness | | • | Incident at Gate 7 | | • | Scene at the open air market | | • | The glass bead game | | • | The foundation | | • | Interlude | | • | The oscillator | | • | So vast as the sky | | • | 38.45 (A Thievery number) | | • | Walking through Babylon |
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| Customer Reviews:
Too good to miss... June 6, 2008
While Thievery Corporation's first full album is less sophisticated than their later outings its rawer, less "crafted" style means that its best tracks have a distinctly more exciting edge. "The Glass Bead Game", "So Vast is the Sky" and ".38.45" just jump out of the speakers with their highly infectious mix of electronica, hip-hop & dub while "Shaolin Satellite's" drivingly addictive beats and multi-layered swathes of organs & sitars put it up there with the very best of the whole electronica/dance scene. Others drift, often much too languidly, between genres giving a rambling and disjointed feel to the album as a whole but, if you're a fan of Thievery Corporation or of high quality downbeat "world" music then what's good on it is too good to miss.
Best Yet March 5, 2004
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm not a massive fan of Thievery - a lot of their personal music sounds very similar. But never fear, this is a compilation of other artists' work. I think it brilliant. Dubwise riddims - quite stipped down and minimal with a lot fo atmosphere - just the way I like it. Recommended.
My introduction to thievery March 5, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was my first and definately not my last purchase of Thivery Corporation output. An excellent release this is sure to become the soundtrack for summer days for those who like things at the dubbed 'n' jazzed end of the downbeat spectrum.
 Not what I expected November 21, 2001
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
After buying the sumptuous Mirror Conspiracy (an incredible album to say the least), I decided to investigate the duo's other work. Unfortunately 'sounds from...' doesn't live up to the standards set by its successor. The tunes are quite minimalist - with similar beats to the subsequent ablum but with none of the richness. Although a good album if you're looking for something even more stoned than Nightmares on Wax, it's not what I'd come to expect from Thievery.
 East-coast dub. July 20, 2000
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
A delectable long-player grounded in the diverse and lonely echo chamber of Thievery's stoned east coast vibes but strongly tempered with chic European jazz and bossonova lounge dub. On "Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi" Rob Garza and Eric Hilton throw up a seamless blend of tribal drums, synth and samples in the mould of a more smoked Kruder and Dorfmeister, who incidentally have long championed the Thievery Corporation. The Washington based duo confound with a perfect representation of post acid-house sampling, stealing as their name suggests, from their treasure chest of old, borrowed and new musical ideas. These plundered breaks and beats are sewn together in a smoky multi-layered homage to all things dark and haunting to deliver a devilishly structured debut. Dripping from every pore with a syrupy sophistication "Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi" is a must for all fans of things leftfield and down-tempo.
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