Interview: Thievery Corporation retaliates

Interview: Thievery Corporation retaliates

27 September, 2008 | 8.02PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: Sarah O

Eric Hilton from the unparalleled Thievery Corporation outfit discusses the influences for their newest release ‘Radio Retaliation’ in this audio interview for Beat Factor.

With their unique talent for seamlessly weaving in and out of all kinds of styles and genres, it’s little wonder that their last album, 2005’s ‘Cosmic Game’, reached No.1 on Billboard’s Top Electronic Albums chart.

Click through for the interview and to listen to ‘Radio Retaliation’ in the player.

About the album, Eric Hilton had this to say to iLike, who streamed it in its entirety five days prior to its release:

“Apart from a few independent bastions, there is no musical or informational freedom on the U.S. airwaves anymore. They’ve been bought up, consolidated and homogenized.

“Music is suffering and ‘Radio Retaliation’ is about an exodus of conscious people who are willing to acknowledge something is wrong.”

In classic Thievery style, this - their 5th album - includes a whole melting pot of cross-cultural, “outernational” sound: Reggae, dub, Latin, Indian and a touch of jazzy lounge, all combine effortlessly to sum up the Thievery Corporation experience.

Contributors include Anushka Shankar and Femi Kuti, to name a few.

On the back of this release we can soon find Thievery Corporation on an international tour, starting off October 10th for Greece with their 15-member band in tow all the way.

Click here for the Thievery Corporation interview on Beat Factor.

Thievery Corporation tour dates

Oct 10 Thessaloníki, Greece
Oct 11 Athens, Greece
Oct 16 London, United Kingdom
Oct 16 Bucharest, Romania
Oct 24 Houston, TX
Oct 25 New Orleans, LA
Oct 26 Dallas, TX
Nov 9 Deleted

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