Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...perhaps the greatest indicator of Maas' success was the absence of a riotous response to "Dooms Night," the Azzido Da Bass track whose ubiquitous remix catapulted Maas to the forefront of the international scene. The crowd certainly ate it up, roaring with anticipation as the familiar shuffling beat filtered from the speakers, but not so much that anyone could call Maas a one-remix wonder. If anything, they much preferred lesser-known but equally well-crafted Maas tracks, occasionally jumping up and down with the reckless abandon of seventh-graders at a school dance. That's not to say that...
...another of Rhino's scrupulously crafted compilations. "El Cancionero Mas Y Mas" is a four-CD retrospective that starts in 1977 and takes us to the present, and what becomes immediately evident is that there is virtually nothing about American music that these five hombres aren't intimately familiar with...
...even those who think they are familiar with the band may be surprised to be reminded what a great ballad singer Cesar Rosas can be; or what a formidable array of guitar players they have on hand, especially David Hidalgo; or how many bases they manage to successfully cover - literally: in addition to the traditional material, their cover versions include songs by Richard Thompson, Johnny Thunders, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead and Doc Pomus, but Los Lobos manage to make them all sound like they're hatched from the same egg. Their outside projects have furthered these diverse interests...
...That also means, of course, that Americans abroad lured inside by the familiar iconography may find the menu, and the attitude, rather foreign...
...line: "No one at no time declared these votes illegal," Bristow said. The 218 votes at issue "were real votes by real people" (sound familiar?) and the Nassau canvassing board "discovered on machine recount that these votes were not counted," so they went with their original total. Simple as that...