Good 'World' music.

Bucovina Club I & II are great introductions to eastern european music. German DJ/Producer Shantel compiled these with dancefloor and party in mind and there's some real stompers on there. Excellent, wild, dirty brass. Makes you want to drink lots of slivowicz.

I was gonna come in here to mention Fela.

"Expensive Shit," "Zombie," and "Gentleman," are all brilliant records - if funk with a more traditional African flavor sounds like your kind of thing, you'll absolutely love Fela.

Altan
Clannad
Enya
Deep Forest
Pangea
Anuna

just heard some Japanese rap with the great DJ Krush, that was cool!

Also, I will always love Cornershop.

One of the top 5 albums of last year was Congotronics by Konono no. 1

BUY it.

[Edited on Mar 03, 2006 by PointBlank]