Music

Note cross-cultural and cross-continental currents, though Horace X would seem even cooler if they actually came from Minnesota like their record label. Also note that "Fuji Ambassador" Adé Bantu and trapper's trapper Young Jeezy, both of whom sound quite exuberant, could probably teach each other a thing or two.

BAKA BEYOND
Rhythm Tree
(March Hare Music African forest Renaissance faire album)
Stream "Boulez Boulez"
Stream "Bokissa" (RealAudio)

BANGO
Bango
(Shadoks Music '70s Brazilian psychedelic rock/rock'n'roll revival/samba reissue)
Stream "Inferno No Mondo" (Windows Media)

BANTU FEAT. AYUBA
Fuji Satisfaction: Soundclash in Lagos
(Piranha Nigerian/German positivity-obsessed "AfroPean hip-hop" album)
Download "Fuji Satisfaction" (RealPlayer)

LULA CÔTES ZÉ RAMALHO
Paêbirú
(Normal/Solar/Shadoks Music '70s Brazilian psychedelic jazz-prog reissue)
Stream "Maracas De Fogo" (Windows Media)

HORACE X
Strategy
(Omnium reggae-dancehall fiddle-jig jazz album)
Stream "She Want"
Stream "Skin" (Windows Media)

BORIS KOVAC & LA CAMPANELLA
World After History: A Pannonian–Mediterranean Round-Trip
(Piranha Yugoslavian "apocalyptical cabaret" chamber group album)
Download "Crazy Love Waltz" (RealPlayer)
Download "Argentina" (MP3)

LA NUMERO 1 BANDA JEREZ
Billete Verde
(a href="http://www.fonovisa.com/">Fonovisa Mexican banda album)
Stream "Billette Verde" (Windows Media)

THE REBEL
"Kit"
(Hook or Crook cranky old Brit with a clanky old synth doing those beat-o beat-o flat on his seat-o hex enduction blues album)

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
H to He Who Am the Only One
(EMI/Virgin '70s prog reissue)
Stream "Killer"
Stream "House With No Door" (Windows Media)

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
Pawn Hearts
(EMI/Virgin '70s prog reissue)
Stream "Lemmings (Including Cog)"
Stream "Man Erg" (Windows Media)

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
(EMI/Virgin '70s prog reissue)
Stream "Darkness (11/11)"
Stream "Refugees" (Windows Media)

YOUNG JEEZY
Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
(Def Jam Southern coke-dealer hip-hop reissue)
Stream "Trap Or Die"
Stream "Thug Motivation 101" (Windows Media)