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Embrace the Chaos (2001)

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Release Date: Sep 11, 2001; Lead Performance: Ozomatli

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By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Every season needs its party record; the second album by this multiethnic L.A. band may be it. Picking up where Los Lobos left off before they went arty, Ozomatli inject traditional genres -- in their case, the cumbias of Latin music -- with modern components like political rap sermonizing (courtesy of Common and De La Soul) and ska-like rhythms. What could have been a clunky fusion turns out to be an organic, free-flowing reverie -- street festivities with a conscience.

Posted Sep 28, 2001

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