12/22/02:
alrighty, so although I tested Emusic.com and found it to be a bit sub-par for the globally-scoped sounds of now (okay, so I only checked to see if they had Suba or Nicola Conte - not much of a test, i know), Sixdegrees records - home of Suba (check this late great brilliant man out - you'll giggle w/ joy) as well as Zuco 103 (decent), Bebel Gilberto (gorgeous!), and
a myriad of other sounds, locales, and genres - is beta testing a new music on demand site w/ an okay smattering of lesser-known globe-trotting beats - so get em free while you can.
there's a page of remixes including the likes of Batidas (NY-based Afro-Latin house) and Euphoria (a Toronto-based guitar player w/ a knack for layering ambient slide strings over hip hop beats) that looks promising. also, plenty of offerings from Cheb I Sabbah, an Algerian-born DJ who cut-n-pastes Eastern sounds into a swirling electronics, who I'm not necessarily drooling over, but I did catch him at the MCA's Solstice party last summer and he was interesting alongside traditional Indian dancers and subtly wrenching video of the Asian third world that gave the festivities a tinge of discomforting ambivalence.
La beta corpo promises to light a fire under my ass and search out some better resources soon enough - I just happened to have found this today. do give a listen though and let Sixdegrees know that they're onto something.
posted by jeremy @ 2:16 AM
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