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-- and Putumayo, true to form, showed both good taste and a sense of adventure when assembling this enjoyable compilation. Chumbawamba's English-language track "Jacob's Ladder," but recordings that are in English are the exception rather than the rule on this 49-minute CD. For Americans who haven't heard chillout and downtempo electronica performed in any language other than English, it might come as a surprise to hear vocals in French, Italian, Spanish, and German on Euro Groove. But in fact, all of those languages sound perfectly natural in a chillout/downtempo environment -- especially if one has spent time in European countries where learning to speak three or four languages fluently is not uncommon. By being multilingual, Euro Groove paints a broad picture of Europe's chillout/downtempo experienc

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