Culture Of Fear

Creative corporation of Thievery Corporation

The band’s story began in middle nineties, when Rob Garza and Eric Hilton decided to collaborate in the sphere of creativity and to devote themselves to music. The point is that both musicians were really fond of not only club music and culture, but also they enjoyed such rare and exotic genres as dub, bosanova, acid-jazz and many others. Not the last place in their personal chart was taken by Indian classical music and lounge. Let us agree that these genres are totally different, and, as the result, the art of Garza and Hilton turned out to be many-sided indeed. Their compositions absorbed numerous musical directions, however the duo (not without a help of session and invited musicians) managed to develop its own sound. Moreover, the brand-new duo decided to make another serious step: Rob Garza and Eric Hilton established their own label, which got the proud name Thievery Corporation Eighteenth Street Lounge Music. This way, the musicians got all the chances to conquer hearts of all the lovers of original electronic music. The time showed that the duo succeeded and accomplished that mission.

The many-sided Culture Of Fear

Thus, the record with a cruel name Culture Of Fear saw the light in 2011. The long play is opened with a composition Web Of Deception, where one of the lead roles was given to the bass-guitar. Funky Web Of Deception creates a positive mood, so no one would like to think about fear, and especially about the whole culture of fear. By the way, the juicy part of a bass-guitar does not disappear after the first track: Culture Of Fear, Take My Soul, Light Flares – the low frequencies get their special attention everywhere. Well, that definitely adds some charm and reminds once again that Thievery Corporation truly enjoy lounge. Garza and Eric Hilton are partial to numerous musical genres, and the track Stargazer shows us that reggae also played its role in the duo’s development. Powerful bass-guitar and accents on backbeats – that song can be easily called a classical representative of Jamaican music of sun. It must be mentioned that all songs form Culture Of Fear sound harmonically, even in spite of the fact that proportions of lounge, jazz, funk or any other style differ from each other.

Soundtrack for every day

Incredibly atmospheric Culture Of Fear’s sound is powerful and very generous, as soon as all its compositions had been carefully chosen to complete each other. Thereby Culture Of Fear may become an excellent soundtrack for every day – you just have to choose the right song for your mood. Once again Thievery Corporation proved to everyone that electronic music does not have to be “cold”. On the contrary, the duo’s creativity stands for the fact that any kind of music, created with love, is something the way much bigger than just an aggregate of notes and sound effects. Lounge, jazz and many other styles found their place in the art of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, and it is totally worth mentioning that their musical cocktail had been already enjoyed by connoisseurs of good music all around the world. During the career, Garza and Hilton got faithful fans, and it is most likely that after Culture Of Fear’s release the quantity of the duo’s listeners will increase dramatically.