This sounds so familiar. Or perhaps just interesting. I suspect a little bit of both.

They're kind of famous, I think. A Brasillian lady I work with tells me they're well-known in their homeland for their political/community awareness work, too.

I'll try to remember to put them on the next mixtape.

Olodum homepage.

Very prolific too!

I know. Their discography is huge. I have a compilation cd that isn't listed there, too.

There is enough interest in this thread for me to make an entirely 'world' tape next time. This is goodness.

I've been thinking of doing this too.

That track on your Mix Tape, the Tibetan boy and father. Incredible. I've been looking for an mp3 of this.

It's on sublime frequencies, 'Music of Lhasa'. It goes downhill after that track, but it's still very good.

Plenty of joy to be found on this site(download section):
http://www.weirdomusic.com/downloads.htm

well, here is a lovely turkish pop song that I love:

Mogollar - Eastern Love
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=95F57298496E4A20


and other songs by the band Mogollar (which porkmarras also knows, but maybe we have been listening to songs from a different period):

Mogollar - Hard Work
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=15C518D70528E2FF

Mogollar - Lazy John
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A4B5350875D8703F

Mogollar - Toroslar
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=AE6E62597F5E8BCE

Mogollar - Kaleden kaleye sahin uÿÿurdum
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=BF47EB3041910642

Mogollar - Madimak
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=170C75DB141FE5B5

Mogollar - Lorke
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=D6FC320755C97993

Haha. Porkie was on about Mogollar a while ago in a thread about Plastic people of the Universe. Excellent band.

i've always wanted to check the Ethiopiques series, thanks for the 3 songs.

if by any chance somebody has some interesting music from Algeria, i would be very interested...

Each and single one of them is excellent.

You're very welcome for those three tracks. Go to your local record store and buy any Ethiopiques volume! Money very well spent, and quite a variety and range of music from one of Africa's most interesting cultures.

Also I've got some Algeria related stuff to upload tomorrow. There is a wealth of Algerian music to seek out.

On a related note, Algerian hip hop anyone? I've read about Algerian hip hop that exsists, but I've never heard anything. I assume any artists would be based in France... If anyone has that to offer, by all means, let us hear it.

Here's an enka album by Keiko Fuji: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7u1ewz

I've recently taken an interest in this genre for some reason.

I think the two most well-known algerian hip-hop groups are Intik and MBS...
out of the two, I have only heard Intik, and I might be able to upload some stuff later today... both were formed in Algeria, and at least originally based in Algeria, but i believe Intik or at least some members of Intik relocated to France (they had some connections with french hip-hop band IAM, I believe)... but there are still apparently many, many other bands from different parts of Algeria, various cities...
(and of course there are some french hip-hop bands consisting of members of Algerian background, but that is a bit different)

wow, this thread is great... thanks everyone!
(unfortunately i've got nothing to share at this moment)

the best world music label in the... eh, world!
www.sublimefrequencies.com

i especially recommend all the radio titles. amazing stuff!

oh for those of you interested yes there is an article about sublime frequencies in arthur mag a few issues back. don't have them at hand right now but check back their site, they keep back issues on pdf format i think.

okay i'll do it for you.

yes:

http://www.arthurmag.com/store/index.php?ID=24


now, i can't see the pdf link, but don't be lazy & find it yourselves, people...

Bush Taxi Mali is the one I've heard from SF. I need to buy some of these.

The Radio Pyongyang one looks like it'd be a good one. North Korean funk?! No way...

bump and here's a page with some mp3s of bhutanese folk music.

http://www.bbs.com.bt/traditional%20songs.htm

Fabulous. I need to add more tonight, if I find the time.

You didn't by any chance pick up any tunes from Serbia? Surely you did!?

i got a CD twofer of a couple of early disciplina kicme records which i haven't listened to yet, and then i took a potluck on 3 CDs based on the cover art but they weren't so good (one was like a fusion of pearl jam & reggae), next time i go back i'm going to be more dilligent in researching the best place to buy records in belgrade (apparently you should go to the street vendors rather than the shops)


one of the highlights of my trip was catching a gypsy klezmer band playing outside a wedding

i started a thread for ooioo fans with this link in, but this track would be very much suited to this thread too and i didnt want the none ooioo fans to overlook it.
here


http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/BL/0510/Roberto_de_Simone_-_Secondo_Coro_Delle_Lavanda\
ie.mp3

"SECONDO CORO DELLE LAVANDAIE" by Roberto De Simone

- La Gatta Cenerentola was a radical reinterpretation of the Cinderella
tale, done in Neopolitan dialect in 1976 by De Simone, who, since the
1960's, organized groups like Italy's NCCP to reinterpret and reinvent
enduring folk tales from his country's (and Europe's) culture and history.
What De Simone uncovered in his deep anthropological studies was a
Neopolitan equivalent to the Wicker Man of sorts; a pagan culture unaffected
by the vast reaches of Catholicism that would consume Italy later; a
matriarch-based shepherd/farming community with complex ritual-based
relationships with pure and unqiue musical communication, brought to life in
this stage performance excerpted here. By far "Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie"
made for one of the wildest moments of the mini-opera, almost taking on the
skeleton of some downtown NYC No-Wave, or comparable to the Slits or Kleenex
in some ways

Thank you Wax

I've got stuff to add here, I'm just lazy.

This one is quite silly, honestly, but still relevant to this thread.

This pop music from Uzbekistan, I often hear them on Radio Tashkent International, and at an Uzbek friends house, his younger sisters are fond of them. Anyway this video is strange...

Sitora - Jon Jon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7awWR...related&search

ACEACEACE.

"Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon, you're a silly monkey/ Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon, you're a little bit crazy"

Is what I imagine the lyrics to sound like. Reminded me a bit of TaTu, which is always a very, very good thing.

And reminded me of the delightful Faye Wong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCdiJIuJx0

Though, these girls are WAYYY hotter.

they cant be fitter than faye wong!
especialy not in chungking express. she is fit as fuck in that film.

i kinda wanna go out with the girls singing in the last song i posted. they sound like very interesting girls. although they would probabaly be old enough to be my mother now.

I think you'll enjoy this item from Radio Polonia (Poland).

Of course, you might not enjoy it. but I'm only responsible for the content of my posts, not your enjoyment of them.

This is terrific Hipster. Thanks for sharing!

Pleasure. I thought it was a nice item, it was just a shame that the guy's accent wasn't a little more Polish! At times he didn't seem to know if he should be English or Irish.

Good stuff though, nonetheless.

Still obviously considered as world music.This is England the way it seldom gets portrayed:

I was thinking the same thing.

I may use parts of this on a Mix Tape some time in the future.

iraq pop?
not sure but this is a wicked track.
the girl has a great voice. great reverbed to fuck cheap production.
at one point, i can hear that "my hump" song.
its from this album



http://www.sendspace.com/file/yhvyx6

More russian stuff:
http://www.archive.org/details/WM031
Nambavan lives in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. He began composing music on his first pc in 2000 and got expelled from guitar lessons for not remembering the songs a few years later.

Nowadays he works with his pc, a $80 guitar and a Casio keyboard. His musical diet consists of Blondie, the Sex Pistols, Cerrone, Sonic Youth, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop, The Doors, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, Madonna, Supermax, and the Bee Gees.

ilhan Akidil's MP3 page of Old Tatar Songs:

http://akidil.net/tatar/tatarsongs.htm

Mongolia.
http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/nati....html#mongolia

LAIBACH:
These dudes are german and evidentally influenced by...Rammstein. However, unlike Rammstein they actually produce really good music. The vocalist is very similar, but their style combines heavy metal with disco/electronica, and has german metal covers of beatles albums. They even have a Jesus Christ Superstar cover.


I'd send you douches sound samples, but I can't find any online. If anyone's interested PM me and I'll upload one when I get home!