Thievery Corporation's tour started out with 5 consecutive sold out shows at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. It was nominated for the Grammy for best recording package. The group released their fifth studio album, Radio Retaliation, on September 23, 2008.

The tour was photographed by Rob Myers, Thievery Corporation's sitar and guitar player, in the Blurb photo book Thievery Corporation 2006. They toured around the United States, playing at Lollapalooza. In 2006 the group released Versions, a selection of remixes done by Thievery Corporation for other artists. In 2005 they released The Cosmic Game, which has a darker, more psychedelic sound than The Richest Man in Babylon. This fifteen track album is similar in sound and timbre to their earlier 2000 release, The Mirror Conspiracy. In 2002 they released The Richest Man in Babylon on their ESL label. The duo drew attention with their first two 12' offerings, 'Shaolin Satellite' and '2001: a Spliff Odyssey' and with their 1997 debut LP, Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi. They decided to see what would come of mixing all these in a recording studio, and from this, the duo started their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label. Rob Garza and Lounge co-owner Eric Hilton were drawn together over their mutual love of club life, as well as dub, bossa nova and jazz records. Thievery Corporation was formed in the summer of 1995 at Washington D.C.'s Eighteenth Street Lounge. Their music style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, and Brazilian (such as bossa nova). based recording artist and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza, Eric Hilton, and their supporting artists, Frank 'Booty Lock' Mitchell, Jeff Franca and Ashish Vyas. Thievery Corporation is a Washington, D.C. That record is already considered by most to be a classic of the new electronic era. After several early 12' singles, Thievery Corporation released Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi on ESL Music.

Weeks later, in a home studio, they began to work on the music that would launch Thievery Corporation. They were introduced by a mutual friend and proceeded to discuss their admiration for the work of Antonio Carlos Jobim and the 60's bossa sound.

Rob Garza and Eric Hilton met at Eighteenth Street Lounge in May 1995. Quality: MP3/APE,FLAC,WV (Img,Tracks+.cue) Genre: Downtempo/Chillout, Trip-Hop, Reggae/Dub, Acid Jazz

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