The Fox Theatre is a 5,000-seat performing arts venue located in a former movie palace in Midtown Atlanta. The theater dates back to 1929 and was originally planned as part of a large Shrine Mosque. Its Moorish design has been described as “picturesque and almost disturbingly grandeur beyond imagination.” Among the theater's many charming quirks is a solitary apartment with a single resident, popularly referred to as the "Phantom of the Fox," who has been granted a lifetime rent-free lease.
D.C.'s Thievery Corporation mixes elements of hip hop, dub, jazz, reggae, classical Indian, Middle Eastern, and Brazilian music into an abstract, instrumental, mid-tempo dance music whose classification falls somewhere between trip-hop and acid jazz.
D.C.'s Thievery Corporation mixes elements of hip hop, dub, jazz, reggae, classical Indian, Middle Eastern, and Brazilian music into an abstract, instrumental, mid-tempo dance music whose classification falls somewhere between trip-hop and acid jazz.
UK's Massive Attack are generally considered to be progenitors of the trip-hop genre. Their hypnotic, darkly sensual, and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples set the pace for much of the dance music to emerge throughout the 1990s.
With regard to that last video, I've always been a sucker for five-minute, single-take, tracking shots.
The sets tonight at the Fox were superb. Thievery Corporation were the polar opposite of minimalists, having at times as many as two drummers, two d.j.'s, two horn players, a sitar, a bass, a guitar, and multiple singers and rappers all simultaneously on stage. Massive Attack featured the most elaborate stage lighting and effects that I've seen since Muse, and they also brought along several singers, including veteran reggae singer Hoarace Andy for many of their songs. They closed with their song Karmakoma and a quote by Howard Zinn displayed behind them ("Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country, for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.") Eclectic and exciting performances all around.
The sets tonight at the Fox were superb. Thievery Corporation were the polar opposite of minimalists, having at times as many as two drummers, two d.j.'s, two horn players, a sitar, a bass, a guitar, and multiple singers and rappers all simultaneously on stage. Massive Attack featured the most elaborate stage lighting and effects that I've seen since Muse, and they also brought along several singers, including veteran reggae singer Hoarace Andy for many of their songs. They closed with their song Karmakoma and a quote by Howard Zinn displayed behind them ("Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country, for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.") Eclectic and exciting performances all around.
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