title: Stealing Orchestra
text: # Stealing Orchestra
  
  Stealing Orchestra is a band from Porto, Portugal that explores music through sampling and real instruments since 1997.
  
  A review by Cool & Strange Music Magazine in 2000 gives a general idea of the music by Stealing Orchestra even if there were many changes in the line-up or musical creation:
  
  "No matter how off the map Mascarenhas' musical funhouse gets, with things running backward and jumping in at the most inappropriate spots, there is always the semblance of a song. His mixed madness has a definite lounge and pop bent to it - yet there is also a strong Portuguese/Spanish flavor. Think of all faux Spanish music that exists out there, then try to imagine what would happen if someone from the area began lampooning American culture with that inherent style. It's like a soundtrack a spy movie ran through a blender."
  
  ## Discography
  
  ### Albums
  
  2011 Deliverance (You Are Not Stealing Records) 2003 The Incredible Shrinking Band (Zounds/Sabotage) 2000 Stereogamy (Nortesul/EMI-VC)
  
  ### EP's
  
  2004 The Haunted and Almost Lost Songs 97-98 (You Are Not Stealing Records) 2004 Bu! (You Are Not Stealing Records) 2001 É Português? Não Gosto! (You Are Not Stealing Records)
  
  ### Compilations
  
  2011 Futuro Primitivo 2006 Calling All Fiends 2006 Saudade: V.A. from Atlantic Coast 2005 Portugal: A New Sound Portrait 2005 Bor Land Can Take You Anywhere You Want 2005 No Noise in Porto Vol.1 2003 Offline 1 2002 Your Imagination 2002 Cais do Rock Vol.4 2000 PressOn
  
  All EP's were released by their own netlabel You Are Not Stealing Records and are free to download.
  
  