| Artist |
Thievery Corporation |
| Album Title: |
The Cosmic Game |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Trip Hop |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
02/22/2005 |
| Label |
Eighteenth Street Lounge Music |
| Catalog No |
ESL081 |
| Bar Code No |
7 95103 00812 0 |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Marching The Hate Machines (Into The Sun) / Thievery Corporation feat. The Flaming Lips (4:01)
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| 2.
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Warning Shots / Thievery Corporation feat. Sleepy Wonder & Gunjan (5:02)
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| 3.
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Revolution Solution / Thievery Corporation feat. Perry Farrell (3:41)
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| 4.
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The Cosmic Game (2:19)
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| 5.
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Satyam Shivam Sundaram / Thievery Corporation feat. Gunjan (4:07)
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| 6.
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Amerimacka / Thievery Corporation feat. Notch (5:41)
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| 7.
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Ambicion Eterna / Thievery Corporation feat. Verny Varela (3:43)
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| 8.
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Pela Janela / Thievery Corporation feat. Gigi Rezende (3:41)
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| 9.
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Sol Tapado / Thievery Corporation feat. Patrick De Santos (3:57)
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| 10.
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The Heart's A Lonely Hunter / Thievery Corporation feat. David Byrne (4:03)
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| 11.
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Holographic Universe (3:42)
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| 12.
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Doors Of Perception / Thievery Corporation feat. Gunjan (3:16)
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| 13.
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Wires And Watch Towers / Thievery Corporation feat. Sista Pat (4:19)
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| 14.
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The Supreme Illusion / Thievery Corporation feat. Gunjan (4:10)
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| 15.
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The Time We Lost Our Way / Thievery Corporation feat. LouLou (4:11)
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| 16.
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A Gentle Dissolve (2:49)
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| Date Acquired |
07/02/2007 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Electric Fetus - Duluth |
| Purchase Price |
16.00 |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Recording Date 2003 - 2004
US Release Date February 22, 2005
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Analyzed: Thievery Corporation / The Cosmic Game
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.01 dB -8.81 dB 4:01 01/16-Marching the Hate Machines (Into the Sun)
DR5 -0.00 dB -6.89 dB 5:02 02/16-Warning Shots
DR6 -0.01 dB -8.26 dB 3:42 03/16-Revolution Solution
DR5 -0.01 dB -6.90 dB 2:19 04/16-The Cosmic Game
DR9 -0.01 dB -11.31 dB 4:07 05/16-Satyam Shivam Sundaram
DR7 -0.01 dB -8.47 dB 5:42 06/16-Amerimacka
DR8 -4.01 dB -13.41 dB 3:44 07/16-Ambicion Eterna
DR7 -0.00 dB -8.73 dB 3:41 08/16-Pela Janela
DR7 -0.00 dB -9.23 dB 3:58 09/16-Sol Tapado
DR8 -0.00 dB -8.99 dB 4:04 10/16-The Heart's a Lonely Hunter
DR5 -0.01 dB -7.39 dB 3:42 11/16-Holographic Universe
DR7 -0.01 dB -10.99 dB 3:16 12/16-Doors of Perception
DR8 -0.01 dB -9.10 dB 4:19 13/16-Wires and Watchtowers
DR6 -0.00 dB -7.96 dB 4:10 14/16-The Supreme Illusion
DR7 -0.01 dB -9.27 dB 4:12 15/16-The Time We Lost Our Way
DR7 -0.01 dB -9.22 dB 2:50 16/16-A Gentle Dissolve
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Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 708 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by David Jeffries:
The ingredients -- electronic beats, dub, soft Brazilian tones, sitars, and women singing in foreign languages -- are entirely the same, but Thievery Corporation have never sounded so genuine. Despite the same old sound and a busy release schedule leading up to it, The Cosmic Game comes across as fresh as a debut and surprisingly indifferent toward being the in thing. What it is is music for music's sake, all laid out with the utmost care, giving listeners a fully thought-out album that makes the "forward" button on your CD player purposeless. Effortlessly flowing from the indie-grooving "Marching the Hate Machines (Into the Sun)" with the Flaming Lips to reggae to samba to psychedelia and beyond, the album is trimmed of all fat. Instrumentals with clever grooves sometimes overstayed their welcome on previous Thievery albums, but here they're whittled down to interludes when need be and positioned as chillout segues between the more striking numbers. The druggy, Perry Farrell-inna-reggae-style "Revolution Solution" is one of these stunners, but the superstars don't own all the highlights. As dank, Jamaican-flavored horns echo into the distance, siren Sista Pat lures listeners into the deep world of "Wires and Watchtowers" while soulful crooner Notch takes things uptown on the cool "Amerimacka" before the Corp turn the tune into one of their stickiest dub outings yet. The pleasant "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" deserves mention because David Byrne guests on vocals, and while it's very good, it's the most forgettable number on this outing. The track brings a very slight reminder of when Thievery Corporation have let ambition trump the meaningful and meaty, but the otherwise purposeful and certain Cosmic Game is so darkly delicious you have to admit it's their masterwork.
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