Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:21:40 -0400 From: Jeff Keibel Subject: STEELE 6 Thievery Corporation have a new 7" promo out via 4AD UK. Featuring two previously unreleased tracks, STEELE 6 comes in one of those brown oversized cardboard sleeves with the colored tape strips on the sides. The songs are "Lebanese Blonde"(instrumental) and "Coming From The Top". Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:37:10 -0400 From: Jeff Keibel Subject: Always Stay Sweet NOV 16 THIEVERY CORPORATION : Lebanese Blonde (BAD8017 / BAD8017CD) Brand new single from this Washington, DC duo. NOT available on the recently released "Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi" album. Available on 12" vinyl and CD single. UK only. Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:31:13 +0100 From: Andrew Norman Subject: Jack, Thievery Corporation That Thievery Corporation 7" first - promo in a plain card & tape sleeve, "Lebanese Blonde (instrumental)" / "Coming from the Top". Catalogue number STEELE 6. Most of the TC stuff I have heard (I don't have the album) leaves me cold, some of it is pretty good - and this one's in the latter category. A-side mixes sitar, guitar and beats, B-side is built around horns and funky keyboards. Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:47:40 +0200 From: Irene McC Subject: Re: Thievery Corporation On 20 Oct 98, Andrew Norman wrote re: Jack, Thievery Corporation: > Most of the TC stuff I have heard (I don't have the album) leaves > me cold, some of it is pretty good My first 4AD purchase in a L-O-N-G time ::: I've picked up the Thievery Corporation's Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi on the w'end and can only mutter *what a strange signage for 4AD*. Just looking at the title of track 2 "2001 Spliff Odyssey" gives the game away : this is a pretty decent _dub_ album all the way through. Not mightily innovate, but very enjoyable nonetheless. I have a feeling it's a grower and that it will accompany me through the upcoming summer - it's warm weather music for pumping in the car :-) Question: on the back it says "all tracks 1996 ESL music / blah blah / 1998 4AD" - have any of these tracks been released previously? And is this the only / latest album of theirs that's out? Where's their other output, if any? Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:53:05 +0000 From: tim grime Subject: Lebanese Blonde - a review Hey all Here's my review of Lebanese Blonde which I picked earlier this week. The track opens up with some nice sitar riff which features throughout the song, the vocals by Pamela Bricker float by, almost washing over you, also nice horn line that punctuates it's own riff though parts of the tune, accompanied with laid-back almost funky percussion - overall a fairly groovey late nite thang to play as you wallow with the excesses of whatever you ingested floating in your cranium. The other tracks are 'Coming from the Top', a bit dull in the monotonous sense with a nagging horn riff alternating with electronic piano (or naff pseudo organ sound heard a thousand times before). It almost redeems itself with some nice percussion. Has semi-decent beat all the way through to carry you along, but certainly not their strongest work and is really just a filler - a classic B-side. The third track is an instrumental take of the lead track, and it works well enough without vocals, where the sitar seems to take more of a hold and a more noticeable bass line. Most likely to have novel value in clubs on the back of Cornershop and Talvin Singh due to the multi-string wonder. The CD single cover design is by ION Design / Thievery Corporation - just in case you all wanted to know! Enjoy it. Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:48:06 +0100 From: Frank Brinkhuis Subject: Re: Lebanese Blonde (Version Francais) At 18:10 4-2-1999 -0500, Sir Jeff wrote: >Thievery Corporation >Lebanese Blonde (Version Francais), CD single >8 track French release includes the title track in English, French & >Instrumental versions plus sought after track "Encounter In Bahia" and >more. > >UPDATED Release Date: 22-Feb-99 (delayed from 01-Feb-99) It IS out now in France. Frank Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:45:59 +0200 From: George Terezakis Subject: Re: Lebanese Blonde (Version Francais) You can also find "Encounter in Bahia" in a compilation album called "Lead With the Bass - Club" from Stereo Deluxe. Stereo Deluxe is a german -I think!- label with many other releases in this "atmospheric lounge/dub/funk/drum'n'bass" genre and in the "heavenly voices/grooves" style. I'd particularly recommend "Future Lounge" -another compilation in the spirit of lead with the bass- and "Swandive" from Swandive -they sound a bit like Locust, but unfortunately not all the tracks are worth listening. George Terezakis Chania, Greece Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:03:30 -0000 From: Andrew Norman Subject: Thievery Corp. & Light Jeannette Hart, on 8 Feb 99,: > But I know now to be careful what is recommended here.. I picked up the > Thievery Corporation CD last week-end (it was HIGHLY recommended) and it > was awful! some Jamaican guy talking and boring beats.. I thought it was > going to be more Jobim-like with female vocals.. ugh. Oh well. as long as > somebody likes it.... Which is probably the cue for me to recommend the French 'Lebanese Blonde' compilation CD, which has the lovely 'Halfway Around the World' (jazzy latin-pop female vocals) along with the title track in three different versions and four others. I'm really in two minds about Thievery Corporation - I love the lightweight poppy stuff like this (and the 'So Com Voce' 7" on ESL), but the stuff based on dub (like the '38:45' single on 4AD) and a lot of the instrumental tracks leave me cold. I've avoided buying the proper album for that reason.