My Daily Essential Listening...Thievery Corporation
The Boom Boom Room at Club Dog House is rocking it downtempo with Thievery Corporation this week. Hang out for a while, kick up your feet, and check out what I think is some of the best and most beautiful new music ever. The Grey Goose is chillin'. Up and dirty.
I loaded up a playlist so you guys could get a taste of them. If this works, you should be able to double click around on the songs and hear a nice sampling of their work. I included some tunes they did with Sarah McLahlan, David Byrne, and Bebel Gilberto too.
A Thievery Corporation show is not something to be missed. The boys bring an entourage of artists from all over the world with them and it is a magical night of some of the most diverse and gorgeous music you could ask for. We got to see them in 2005 and I was blown away. One minute a singer from India would be on stage, then next a hip hop duo, then next a reggea artist, then next a beautiful singer from France or Ireland, then next a sassy blues singer...It was an experience I'll never forget.
In my opinion, their album "Mirror Conspiracy" should be in everyone's music collection.
Wikopedia sorta explains them...
"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 (such as bossa nova) fused together with a lounge aesthetic."
Well...this site rocks. LOTS more electronica, nu-jazz, and downtempo stuff available here than on Song2Play...and no %^&*$# pop ups. You can easily manipulate the auto play when you copy the code. Awesome.
I'm in heaven yall...tons of Hotel Costes, Verve catalog and remix stuff, uber DJ compilations, French Pop, etc.
This tune and the one in the comment section have been in heavy rotation at the Dog House and now I can share them with you guys. I love these. They are from a collaboration between genius DJ Richard Dorfmeister and a group I've discovered recently that I am crazy about...Madrid De Los Austrias.
I think I may actually be a "profiler". I fancy myself an evolved and intelligent human being, and well above shit like that, right?... but then I realized Monday night that I am a "profiler".
So this black chick walks into the store last night... with disheveled hair, sweat stains all over her tee shirt, and bicycle shorts. There is a government housing project two blocks behind the store, so I....uh...assume, right? Anyways, she starts dancing around the shop and spends an hour in my store, making a big pile of items on the checkout counter in the process. I'm freaking at this point...contemplating how I am going to handle this delicate matter when she decides to leave the store.
Honestly, I thought she was in the store just to fuck with me. I got my guard up and was thinking of something clever to say to her after she left the store without anything ...or worse...tried to jack me up.
It turns out that she is the wife of a very successful and famous rap artist that lives here and looked "disheveled" because she had just been at a hot yoga class down the block. If you have ever been through a hot yoga class, you would look "disheveled" too. It's grueling. It turns out that this woman could buy and sell my little ass many many times over.
She drops some major coins. She visits with me for a while and I fall in love with her. Yall would freak if I told you who her husband is. She goes on and on about how much she loves my store and leaves. I felt like a total ass. I felt like a total ass and I didn't like myself very much at all.
Is it actually possible that I really am a honkey ass "profiler"??? What the fuck? I thought so much better of myself. But come to think of it...you know what? I do it in another way as well. When I see a 30-ish female with a smart tipped asymmetric hairdo, rockin' Prada and Blahnik, I'm on that like stink-on-shit, because I assume that she is fixin' to throw off some AMEX baby, and is in my store for validation and is going to walk out with a sackful of high end candles and personal care products.
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…" – Walt Whitman
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