One day, I walked into a nightclub on the Las Vegas Strip, and, after ten years in the electronica/techno scene, I found that I just didn't want to jump around at 120BPMs anymore. I wanted to sit across from a beautiful woman, to smoke a hookah, to actually TALK to someone and get to know them...but still while hearing some music I could relate to. My DJ friend Michael Fuller had been spinning a lot of downtempo lounge, so I took a chance on Thievery Corporation. Thievery Corporation--and the entire loungetronica scene--is a compilation and culmination of the entire mid-to-late 20th century. Jet-set style, exotic rhythms, jazzy overtones, sexy vocals. When you have stopped drinking just to get drunk and have started to appreciate a $10 martini, buy this CD and never, ever look back.