Word: strikingly
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Instead of sounding like a random conglomeration of synthesized noises, most tracks on Autoditacker strike you as a unified whole. Only upon closer listening do their constituent parts become apparent. Samples and drum loops build on each other to form an almost seamless wall of sound. Rarely does one sample call attention to itself-except when the composition calls for it-and rarely does any sound seems superfluous. At times, Mouse on Mars samples live acoustic drums, but most of the time they use synthesized sounds percussively, a technique that makes their songs quite arresting. The 12 purely instrumental tracks...
...Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who immigrated there during the 18th century. The community has paid a price for its separateness: because the Amish forbid marriage outside the Old Order, centuries of inbreeding have afflicted them with certain genetic diseases that strike their young in alarming numbers...
...officer then "let go of a round" of bullets, Nagle said. While the bullets did not strike the suspect, Nagle said, they caused him to stop the car. Montanez was then taken into custody...
...then came the air strike. Linden passed to senior Jared Chupaila for a first down, but after a hard hit from the Lehigh blitz, Linden sat out the next three plays...
Brian Goodman, 20, is obsessed with the idea that disaster and death are about to strike his family. The only way to stave off catastrophe, his mind tells him, is to follow self-imposed rituals to the absolute letter: making coffee in a way that never varies, driving around Los Angeles along the same route every day. A classic victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Goodman has been in treatment since he was seven, without much change. Now he is on Zoloft. "Before the medicine," he says, "it was like living in hell...