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I’m glad to present yet another month of discoveries through this blog where I hope my musical finds are interesting enough to write thousands of words about, & hopefully some of you actually read & value it! Regardless of the scriptures, this month is again jampacked with some of the ...

  Presenting our Ethnofusion finds in May 2018, featuring a wealth of weird and wonderful musical styles including tribal and Bengali dubstep, Arabic and Andean downtempo, ancient Haitan soul, ethnic psybass, Byzantine mid-tempo, psychedelic klezmer, salsa glitch, and other non-traditional forms of trans-tribal collaboration. To clarify a few other points ...

Clap! Clap! – A Thousand Skies [Black Acre] Clap! Clap!’s A Thousand Skies is one of those albums that does not sound like anything else. The foley-ridden bubbly and tribal sounds on this album are topped with complex polyrhythms and a beautiful sense of production. In the traditional senses, this ...

Dirtwire – Viento (feat. Maria Del Pilar) The opening of these pair of ears to Dirtwire this year has been nothing but spectacular. Breathing professionalism into each track as the vibes sip through every note of the band’s music, the supergroup is back with Viento; an organic and ethereal mid-tempo ...

Ethnic Dub / Trap / Bass Liquid Bloom x Numatik – Stand with Us (ft. Yona FrenchHawk & David Brown) This month, again, we open the blog with a call to prayer, from Liquid Bloom (Amani Friend of Desert Dwellers), various remixing producers, and most importantly, elders from the indigenous ...

Ethnic Dub Anchor Hill – Trees by the Sea of Compassion Released as a forthcoming preview of the Anchor Hill album to be released sometime soon, ‘May The Forest Be With You’, this song really hits the perfect ethnodub vibration. It’s at a stunning level of production, with all instruments ...