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Album Details

• Artist: Thievery Corporation
• Album: Abductions and Reconstructions
• Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge
• Year of Release: 1999
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-26

This one took a while to get a review done. The reason for this was a total turn off when I first heard it. It was strange too, because I absolutely love Thievery Corporation as well as good remix projects. All it needed was some good aging. The album starts off with a brilliant reworking of David Byrne’s “Dance On Vaseline� and it leads right into one of the albums most interesting track, Baaba Maal’s “I Will Follow You�. Rob Garza and Eric Hilton do a fine job turning Baaba’s track into a chill out track. Other bands that have their songs worked by the Thievery Corporation are Stereolab (“Tickertape of the Unconscious�), Rockers Hi-Fi, Pizzacato 5, Gus Gus, and Black Uhuru just to name a few. Garza and Hilton together provide one of the best remixing team that you will ever hear and Abductions is a great example of their work. Give it a couple tries and you will fully appreciate it.

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