Thievery Corporation

On October 1, 2002 ESL Music released the latest Thievery Corporation full length LP entitled, The Richest Man In Babylon. Rob Garza and Eric Hilton consider it their most introspective work to date. Existing somewhere between rock, dub, psychedelia, latin, and electronic music, this new album finds Thievery Corporation elevating their signature sound with more contemplative and thought provoking songwriting.

The diverse sounds found on The Richest Man In Babylon should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Thievery Corporation, for both Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have very diverse musical backgrounds. "Electronic music is very often cold and mechanical; this is not attractive to us in the least. Our influences come from organic productions and I think this is especially evident on the new album," says Garza. This is perhaps why people have had a great deal of difficulty in placing Thievery Corporation into any preconceived musical genre. "I think that ours is a sound which takes from so many forms of music that it's fairly hard to pin down. It is made electronically, but I don't think it sounds that way," explains Hilton.

Rob puts it best when he says, “From beginning to end, we make music for ourselves. There are feelings and emotions that we want to incorporate in our music, and it’s only natural that our boundaries expand as we do this.”