(Excerpt)  While World Groove concentrates on the popular eclectic-house style, World 2004 doesn’t specifically concentrate on anything.  And that’s OK, because it means that a double-disc set bookended by modern foreign-dub sounds (Brazilians Fat Marley’s multi-syncopated ghost db “Xin,” and New Zealand band Fat Freddy’s drop’s epic “Hope”) can contain within it straight tangos, klezmer confusions, Nigerian rap and a myriad of hyphenated hyperboles.  There’s not the thematic connection you’ll find on World Groove: While there certainly is groove-oriented ethnic fusions here, like Sidestepper’s “Dame Te Querer,” a deep bass slice of Cuban dance-floor machismo, and DJ Dolores Y Orchestra Santa Massa’s Brazilian chant and drum and bass “A Danca da Moda,” there’re also cuts of more sentimental pallor, such as Israeli café crooner Chava Alberstein’s “Fellini in New York” and the Italian equivalent, Gianmaria Testa’s “Dentro al Cinema.”