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Gavin B. · 07-13-2013, 03:14 PM

Sounds From the Outernational Hi-Fi

Around the turn of the Millennium, a handful of deejays and electronica artists began experimenting in remixing more exotic forms of music. The music was such a confluence of subgenres that many electronic music & techno fans didn't find what they're looking for in it.

The music was electronic in that nearly everything was tweaked on a studio soundboard. However, the musical genres were wildly varied from jazz samba, to dub reggae, to Brazilian bossa nova, to Italian b-movie soundtracks from the Sixties, to West Indian socca, to Bollywood film soundtracks to French pop classics. For lack of a better category, these new electronica artists were usually shoe-horned into the trip hop subgenre of electronic music.

An example of this new eclectic approach to remixing international music was Thievery Corporation's enticing remix of Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66's Chove Chuva, an old bossa nova tune. It appears on Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi a collection of Thievery Corporation remixes that was issued in 2001.

I was stunned at how much better Chove Chuva sounded with Thievery Corporation's addition of an exotic sitar, enhanced percussion, and a jazzy piano solo. The remastering of the song added a crystalline sound quality that was absent from the original 1966 version of the song.

Most amazingly, Thievery Corporation's remix of Chove Chuva didn't intrude upon the artistic quality of the original song. Sergio Mendes loved the Thievery Corporation remix of Chove Chuva and he designated the Thievery Corporation version as the official Brazil '66 version to be used in any future SM & Brazil '66 anthologies.

Sounds From the Verve Hi-Fi - The album that started it all.

Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi began my own awareness of this new fusion of electronica with international music. Thievery Corporation coined the term Outernational music to describe these musical encounters between electronica artists and the wildly diverse subgenres of the world music.

My purpose in this thread titled Sounds From the Outernational Hi-Fi is to provide the MB reader with an informal history of the outernational music movement and to provide some musical samples for those interested in this relatively new form of electronic music.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	Sounds From the Outernational Hi-Fi Sounds From the Outernational Hi-Fi Around the turn of the Millennium, a handful of deejays and electronica artists began experimenting in remixing more exotic forms of music. The music was such a confluence of subgenres that many electronic music & techno fans didn't find what they're looking for in it. The music was electronic in that nearly everything was tweaked on a studio soundboard. However, the musical genres were wildly varied from jazz samba, to dub reggae, to Brazilian bossa nova, to Italian b-movie soundtracks from the Sixties, to West Indian socca, to Bollywood film soundtracks to French pop classics. For lack of a better category, these new electronica artists were usually shoe-horned into the trip hop subgenre of electronic music. An example of this new eclectic approach to remixing international music was Thievery Corporation's enticing remix of Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66's Chove Chuva, an old bossa nova tune. It appears on Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi a collection of Thievery Corporation remixes that was issued in 2001. I was stunned at how much better Chove Chuva sounded with Thievery Corporation's addition of an exotic sitar, enhanced percussion, and a jazzy piano solo. The remastering of the song added a crystalline sound quality that was absent from the original 1966 version of the song. Most amazingly, Thievery Corporation's remix of Chove Chuva didn't intrude upon the artistic quality of the original song. Sergio Mendes loved the Thievery Corporation remix of Chove Chuva and he designated the Thievery Corporation version as the official Brazil '66 version to be used in any future SM & Brazil '66 anthologies. Sounds From the Verve Hi-Fi - The album that started it all. Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi began my own awareness of this new fusion of electronica with international music. Thievery Corporation coined the term Outernational music to describe these musical encounters between electronica artists and the wildly diverse subgenres of the world music. My purpose in this thread titled Sounds From the Outernational Hi-Fi is to provide the MB reader with an informal history of the outernational music movement and to provide some musical samples for those interested in this relatively new form of electronic music. __________________ There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff. Townes Van Zandt Last edited by Gavin B.; 07-20-2013 at 10:02 PM.