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"That's right," concurs my wife. "That's exactly what it sounds like. It's awful."

For the past decade, Troker has pulled together threads of jazz, hip-hop and rock and twisted them up with the mariachi horns of their native Guadalajara, where they began as a bar band. Crimen Sonoro—which roughly translates to "Sound Crime"—is loud, sprawling, noisy and chaotic, which I mean in the most complementary way. "We've learned how to say what we want," suggests trumpeter Gilberto Cervantes, who teams with saxophonist Arturo "El Tibur��n" Santillanes to inject the mariachi sound into the band's seething cauldron of rhythm. "We've played rock, we've played jazz. We've discovered who we are. We're happy in our own skins."

Those skins get around: Cervantes studied at the Berklee College of Music and subsequently worked with