Schweet!!! :)

1. Calcutta Delight - The Kumba Mela Experiment feat. Ranajit Sengupta (Beautifully produced by Youth, this downtempo South Asian fusion gem slowly builds in momentum to an ecstatic finale)

www.myspace.com/liquidsounddesign
www.liquidsounddesign.com/index2.htm

2. Mes Endroits - DAM feat. Nikkfurie/La Caution (Rising Palestinian hiphop collective mixes traditional melodies with full-on Arabic rap and hiphall grooves)

www.dampalestine.com/main.html

3. Superbo Kuduro - Frederic Galliano feat. Dog Murras (Renowned French dj and producer--of Frikyiwa and The African Divas fame--latest foray into Afrotronica finds him exploring the beat that is rocking dancefloors from Luanda to Lisbon, in this track featuring the reigning king of the genre, Dog Murras, an instantly recognizable name amongst Lusophone African communities from Angola to Houston)

www.myspace.com/fredericgalliano
fredericgalliano.calabashmusic.com/

4. Tambozão Rock - MPC (Featured in WordSound's Made In Brasil compilation, the relentless beat of the tambozão, electronic descendant of the Afro-Brazilian maculelê rhythm, makes for a stripped down version of the infamous funk carioca beat and a surefire invitation to the dancefloor)

www.myspace.com/emepece

5. What Kind Of World - Oojami (UK-based, Turkish fusion club act return with a full-length follow-up to their last album, featuring this irresistible foot stomper with Turkish hooks and ragga mc toasting)

www.oojami.co.uk/

6. Silani (original and mo dj remix) - Ba Cissoko feat. K'naan (Four-piece Guinean band, named after its leader and exponent of the electronic kora, unites West and East Africa by inviting Canadian-based Somali rapper, a sensation on the world music festival circuit last summer, to rap on this delightful fusion track where the kora resonates north to Andalucia and the Guinean phrasings beckon eastward to the rim of the Indian Ocean and beyond. The remix is by Mo DJ, Mali's foremost dj and electronic music producer)

www.ba-cissoko.com/
www.ba-cissoko.com/supports/tracks.php
www.mo-dj.com/supports/tracks.php

7. Be'Yom Shabbat - The Idan Raichel Project (Lush, melodic, beautiful Afro-Semitic fusion from up and coming Israeli musician and producer)

www.idanraichelproject.com/en/index.php
www.idanraichelproject.com/en/audio.htm

8. Peace To The Middle East - Adham Shaikh feat. Ganga Giri (Canadian ethno-fusion producer teams up with Australian didjeridu virtuoso to create this dancefloor anthem)

www.sonicturtle.com/

9. Do You Have Any Faith? - Zohar (Aka Erran Baron Cohen and brother of Sacha Baron Cohen of AliG-Borat-Bruno fame, this UK-based composer and producer's latest release is a percolating fusion of Middle Eastern rhythms and funky dance music)

www.myspace.com/zoharmusic

10. Raanjhan (jalebee bass for breakfast mix) - MIDIval PunditZ feat. Abida Parveen (A retro-intro leads the way for a breakbeat fest restyling of the seminal track off the PunditZ last album, courtesy of some of the most exciting artists to come out of the Delhitronica scene that make up the Jalebee Cartel)

www.sixdegreesrecords.com/catalog.php

Nu Europe is one of the latest in a string of brilliant releases from UK-based Manteca Records/Union Square Music. I would also recommend the Warsaw Village Band's People's Spring album. This is a truly genre-defying collection that brings these amazing talents into the world music/worldbeat fold. As you can see from my posts, I have more of a tendency towards world electronica, but these acoustic musicians blew my mind (plus the cd also contains a couple of surprising and delightful remixes!).

wow Jacques - u are on it! R u a dj?

Anytime, Kashmir! :D

LOL! For me, knowledge, including musical knowledge, has no value unless it is shared.

Having said that, this is the time of the year when I hit the road with my music and jes hafta charge lol ;P

Btw, thanx for the headzup on you know which track ;) Can you imagine had they marketed the album under the original title in the UK?!

Oh, and I also need to correct something in my last post--Fulanito is meren-rap, not meren-hop. I should know, been shaking my culo to their music for ages. Gozadera total!

Can't wait to party at the next Beats Without Borders event!

Sunidhi Chauhan is AMAZING. I want to be her. She is only about 24 years old - a mere baby in an industry where Lata Mangeshkar is STILL recording...

I have met a couple of playback singers (Sanjeevani, Mohamed Salamat) and they are really nice, down to earth people. Also saw Sadhana Sargam and Abhijeet about a year and a half ago. They all just look like normal people you'd see in the grocery or your engineering class, in the case of the younger ones... no Jessica Simpson/Britney Spears kind of body surgery or hair highlighting needed. Part of the reason I love Hindi music is because the emphasis is still on the MUSIC and not the image portrayed by the artist's appearance.

That's right, Notecrusher! I don't have Drum The Bass--I must admit, my previous knowledge of him only extends to Badmarsh & Shri.

So, when you listen to Drum the Bass, the B & S releases, and now, East Rain, do you see a progression. I guess, most of us know the Badmarsh & Shri sound, but my real question is how does Drum the Bass compare with East Rain, seven years later?

Much has been made about how he doesn't want people to associate the new album with the Asian Underground sound of its heyday. I guess that's true when you listen to the entire album--it is more than just Tarana which has been garnering major play. But, you know what they say--you don't know where you're going unless you know where you've been.

So, does East Rain give the listener an idea about where it's going, especially when you've listened to Drum The Bass and know where it's been? :)

Hoi Jurgen! Re: Visionary Underground, I just read on the Clubwallah site that they are going to be appearing *with* Transglobal Underground and Sona Family (MIDIval PunditZ tbc) at Shaanti UK at the Marquee Club, Leicester Sq, London on November 19! Wat leuk, zeg! :D

Oh, en stuur je me wel die cd van VU? ;)

Hi Layla, heard you rocked the Bay Area when you were down there spinning at Electric Vardo--wished I had been there to dance to your global beatz!

Keep us posted on your gigs on the west coast and beyond.

It looks like all three members are busy with solo projects at the moment. Their official website now directs you to their MySpace page where there is a message from the group regarding their current individual endeavors.

Big up to all three of you amazing djs--The Incredible Kid, DJ Anjali, and E3--two years after I balle balle'd and baila'd my okole off on the dancefloor of Holocene to the truly internationaltastic world muzik soundz and world beat grooves of ATLAS, I have had the distinct pleasure of getting my wainak on last year at the ATLAS 2-yr anniv and just this past weekend post-Michael Franti show, along with an absolutely packed dancefloor at 1001 SE Morrison :)

My first review of ATLAS as a Six Degrees World Music Club Nite struck a chord with many of our fellow World Music Tribe members, especially those in the field of world fusion, global beat, and worldtronica. As you may have read, many like-minded world beat aficionados chimed in on that thread from as far flung places as Helsinki, Amsterdam, Miami, NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Eugene, Seattle, and Vancouver! I am so glad you are part of our online world music community on tribe now--a community of world music/beat/fusion enthusiasts, fans, artists, musicians, performers, and yes, djs!

Speaking of that thread, since it is getting rather long, I shall be starting a second part soon which would facilitate the reading of new posts and encourage more folks to share their experience of world music/beat/fusion in a club/nightlife setting (it would also encourage me to work on visiting some of the signature nites already discussed on that thread such as Earthnoize Miami, Cross Borders Helsinki, and Sub Swara NYC :)

Btw, IK, you made my nite when you dropped Tego & Oscar D'Leon's Llora, Llora. I danced to the classic salsa version all thru my college years, and now, more than a decade after, am so stoked to be able to get my sandunga on to such a veritable tune :D

And Anjali's flawless all-around-the-world global urban beat set mixing in all the latest and hottest Desicua (Desi + Boricua) anthemz before your set had all of what felt like 1000 dancing bodies dancing and moving in ecstasy ~*~

Too bad, I missed E3's set, I really have to get there when the doors open to take in the full International Heat of Atlas :) You guys are definitely pioneers of the Pdx global beat scene. I was telling Anjali how two years ago, I had to carefully pick a date to visit P-town that coincided with the nite for ATLAS in order to not miss out on the only World Music (and Six Degrees) nite in Pdx. Two years later, the global beat scene which you guys helped foster has def grown by leaps and bounds,

On account of the Michael Franti & Spearhead concert at the Roseland, we missed two other world music/international-themed nites, one at Balkan Paranormale (we actually went down to check it, but one of us misread NW5th for NW6th and ended up at Satyricon--no balkan beatz there) and Pi-Rem. I think you guys have helped turn Portland clubland into a major world music and fusion hotspot in the PNW!

I also need to post my notes on A Summer of World Fusion in the Pacific Northwest, including the section on Portland which covered a globaltastic Memorial Day weekend in Portland with Andaz, East Meets West with DJ Layla (Guerrilla Tribal) & DJ Amar (Bansuri.net), Cheb i Sabbah at Pi-Rem grand opening party, and DJ Jeffe & Layla opening for Lorin Bassnectar at The Greek!

Respeto y hasta la proxima ~*~

Saha XS. Ca fait longtemps, quoi d'neuf? :)

A propos de la serie Desert Roses, vol. 4 vient de sortir!

www.amazon.com/Desert-Ros...875-9666509

Moi aussi j'adore le nouvel album de Cheb Mami, Layali

www.amazon.com/Layali-Che...875-9666509

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan c'est l'indisputable maitre de qawwali avec plus de 100 albums enregistres. On verra l'annee prochaine un disc de remixes realises par Gaudi www.thelemongroup.com/product...srat.php

Hey, that's really cool you found an audio link for Allah Ya Moulana, thanx a bunch WaltSnipe! :D

Y'know, that's also the first time I've heard an actual audioclip on a LastFM page (I could never figure out how to make them work before!)

Good stuff, WaltSnipe! For the last week I’ve been groovin’ in my car to the “Istanbul Calling” CD you gave me for my birthday...also featured it at today’s belly dance practice (along with Jai Uttal’s “Dial M for Mantra”)...this new CD sounds delicious....Good thing Christmas is just around the corner ;-)
-CM (subtle as a heart attack)

Hiya WaltSnipe :)

<except for Track #16, anyway>

LOL. I thought the Indian tablas were at least a nice fusion touch. I would describe the track as drum n bass lite ;D

I actually got this cd a month ago, gave it a quick listen, and immediately thereafter got inundated with a slew of new releases arriving in my mailbox (be careful what you wish for!). My peak dancefloor pick has to be track# 5.

If you like this predominantly down and mid-tempo collection from Istanbul, you'll love the latest Mercan Dede album, 800, commemorating the 800th birthday of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (there's even a track called Istanbul on it) which is also now available on Tulumba.com. Seriously, I think this is his best album. There are appearances by Turkish rapper Ceza (featured in the Crossing The Bidge movie), but the entire collection is very much downtempo and fusion with collaborating musicians the likes of Shankar Das on Indian tablas and dholak and Shen Qi on erhu (that tune, Denizkizi Ilahsisi, has to have the best use of erhu in a fusion track imho). Elsewhere, you'll hear Rumi invocations spoken, sung, whispered all over in different languages including Turkish, Persian, and even Chinese.

My pleasure, Mae. Hope you're enjoying the abundance of world music events in the Bay Area this weekend ~*~

Yeah, I looked as well and since this is a just released item (June 16), only Amazon.fr sells the physical CD. I also checked the label website and they don't have their own online store.

It's amazing that Amazon.com does have it available digitally, but for the CD, you might wanna wait some time to see if it does become available thru some domestic vendor. Or if you find other items you want on Amazon.fr, rationalizing the $25 shipping cost over multiple items in a single order might not be so bad :/

Great stuff, Y'all . . . I got some shopping to do ;-)

What's new w/ you, JACQUES???

Yo, that cat knows a lot about great music!!!

That's great Kurt, I heard the show was a blast. Congrats on your residencies at Balkan Fever/Someday Lounge Pdx and Baxtalo Drom/Amnesia SF! And kudos to you and everyone else who have been rocking da world muzik on tha playa--you guys rakk! :D

Dave, it was awesome meeting you in NYC this year, I am def reserving Friday nite for the next trip to catch your show at Camaradas in the heart of El Barrio!

LOL. That Singh is Kinng soundtrack has the potential to spin off so many hits aur...? :)

In my case, I would usually be the one to historically prefer Daler to Mika just because he has such a great voice and one could never forget Amitabh dancing to Bolo Ta Ra Ra. I do have Mika's debut album, and aside from the duets with Sunidhi Chauhan and Cheshire Cat, I did not find myself listening to it for long.

Fast forward a couple years, and now we have this SIK OST, and the choice to feature one track off of it went to this uncharacteristic venture by Mika at a very folksy singing style combined with the additional remix/production of Tigerstyle which I thought succeeded brilliantly. Daler's original and more acoustic version is top notch, but I kinda like the call and response going on in Mika & Tigerstyle's version, not to mention the consistently solid beats. Now, about that progressive house remix of Daler by DJ Amyth, my dokhtar told me to cut down on sugar hehe :)

Re: Maan Doabe Da--this was my birthday prez from you guys in Portland this year! I will have to listen to it again in time for the album's official release ~*~

It didn't make it into my budget this month, and I have to admit the movie title did not grab me right away :)

Might very well make it into next month's (just a few days away) shopping list to little India tho ;D

Here's an interview with Arash about his new album

thenational.ae/article/20...603663/1083

See yu guys in India!

Yaa, I can't believe I narrowly missed Filastine's live gigs twice in the last year--first time at Shambhala (I canceled my trip) and a second time when I was touring Indonesia the same time he was (got the venue deets for his gig and still failed to find it/got distracted by a savory pancake stall).

I think Con Las Manos En La Masa is one of the hidden gems on Dutty Bomb. I know another track got released last year and a lot of play--Fitnah, with the beautiful Indonesian vocals, and I also quite liked the ones he did with DJ Collage and the Australian aborginal mc.

Have a great show on the 10th, Kurt!

Thank yu Jef for making all the wonderful music all these years, and also for regularly updating us on this World Music tribe as to your endeavors and projects over the last five years ~*~

Junjura fits beautifully into Tribal Matrix 2 in terms of the compilation's concept and flow along with the contributions from the other artists featured on it. I also notice that another artist, DrumSpyder, who frequently collaborates and performs with you, is also on TM2 with a couple of new tunes. I heard Pathaan on the BBC Asian Network play Kalypso a week or so ago, and I am very excited to hear this prelude to DrumSpyder's full album coming out Dakini later in the year.

Jef, I have also recently purchased the Arabian Pleasure compilation which also sees another one of your well beloved tunes take flight--Hizzy Ya Nawaem, your "world remixed" take on the classic dabke number. I am so happy this one got released as I remember dancing to it during the joyous album release party for Saracen at a very packed Bollyhood Cafe in the Mission almost a year ago.

Greetings from London and wishing you a bountiful spring filled with much music and more.

<And so much Punjabi!>

LOL. And there's more that are creeping up my Top 10 as we speak ;D

<Anjali I played Tigerstyle's promo Giddha mix of Bol!Bol!Bol! to death in 2008, and when the album version dropped I was skeptical of the electronic flourishes at first, but it has since become a staple in my sets>

Now I'm wondering if that giddha mix of Bol Bol Bol is what I heard on a YouTube of a dance performance at this year's Tribal Fest. I've heard there is another more recent remix of another track from the same album which should be getting a commercial CD release very soon. Once it is available, I will post it on my list here :)

<Shinda definitely does something different with the production on the Nachhatar Gill title track>

There's a fast bhangra number on the new album that I also have been dancing to a lot. But the midtempo title number was just so beautiful, it had to go straight to the top of the list. I don't think I've had a Punjabi artist on top since Dec 04 when Bally Sagoo and Gunjan was there with Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha.

<their duet from Collaborations 2 is the stompingest number on that disc>

I also really like the Jassi Sidhu collaboration on the new album. Matter of fact, all the numbers sound fantastic including the Punjabi qawwali fusion piece with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

<I really enjoyed the last Mexican Insitute of Sound, is the new one up to those standards>

I would say there are some definite sonik gemz on the new one (such as the mariachi fusion version of The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony which made it on the list) and another collaboration with members of Cafe Tacuba and the Beastie Boys. However, knowing your tastes, IK, yu should preview the entire album first ;) Yu might also be interested in the remixes of the first single which I think is doing the rounds on vinyl.

My pleasure ~*~

Greetings from Koh Phangan, Thailand, where I just returned from da infamous full moon party on the beach in Haad Rin. No world muzik to report of per se, but our caravan did park behind the Israeli-owned restaurant next to tha Drop In Resort that was blasting Hebraic Middle Eastern muzik :D

Reggaeton can still hold its own in spite of tha pressure to mainstreamline with r&b

So much fun @ ATLAS PDX in tha summertime! :D

Can't wait to see y'all next month!

Everyone join me in welcoming DJ T-Bird to the World Music tribe!

A very prolific DJ, consort of our World Music's tribe very own Ln, presently in the Barcelona area (transplanted from Los Angeles) with an interest in world-flavored and soulful house music and global electronica (heard some of his original Nitin Sawhney-esque productions over the years).

Check his website and MySpace www.djtbird.com/ www.myspace.com/djtbird

We almost met up in London during the Notting Hill carnival last year, but did not on account of crowds and schedules :) Funny cuz I'm on my way back to London (singing a lullaby to the Icelandic volcano rite now!)

Rak on, Micsto!

T-Bird, too bad I missed ya in London *again* but it was a hectic weekend with the World Cup kick-off and the excitement of the opening matches. Every world music DJ in town is spinning World Cup-themed nights at their respective bars/residencies :D