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Commentary: 'Mesh Music'

By Andrei Codrescu

Published February 10, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Andrei Codrescu describes discovering a new sound called "Mesh Music" in New York. It's a combination of Balkan and Gypsy melodies, and he thinks it will be the big thing later this year.

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