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Putumayo: Women of the World

Despite the different springs feeding into these women's inspirational homes, the album is successful at uniting these unique, accomplished musicians.

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Binder & Krieglstein: Alles Verloren

Sounds like a youthful Eminem crashing a polka party and bringing Moby along.

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Hakan Lidbo: Dunka Dunka

Experiments heavily with dark beats and tweaks disco lines.

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The Cinematic Orchestra: Ma Fleur

An existential tour through a swinging spectrum of emotional highs and lows, the album rawly reflects on the contemporary and universal crises faced by both jazz and humanity.

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Azam Ali: Elysium Remixes EP 1 and 2

An "endless reverie" of remixes by one of world music's top vocalists.

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Nick Warren: Paris

To stay a superstar, though, a DJ's got to be on top of the game; to remain relevant, the music has to respond to ever-changing contemporary cultural needs.

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Q-Burns Abstract Message: Agave Nectar, Vol. 1: Q Burns Abstract Message Mix

A solid house music mix, Agave Nectar Volume 1 needs a little sugar to liven its sound up.

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Yndi Halda: Enjoy Eternal Bliss

Yndi Halda has woven a beautiful tapestry with their debut.

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Antibalas: Security

Fela Kuti's afrobeat bangs on with Antibalas' fourth release.

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Wax Poetic: Copenhagen

Releases on Nublu prove as varied and unpredictable as nights out at the like-named live-music bar/lounge in New York's Alphabet City -- you never know who's going to show up, or what mood they're going to be in.

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MIDIval PunditZ: Remixed

The New Delhi-based duo MIDIval PunditZ creates dance music that mirrors contemporary India: a hybrid of tradition and technology. Too bad their remixes don't always see this reflection.

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Lanu: This Is My Home

This intertwining of informed lyrics with forward-thinking production lends new meaning to the phrase intuitive jazz.

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The result is a hard-hitting blend of the best electro tracks currently on the scene, so good that you may agree with Hawtin and recognize that this is no lazy DJ's mix CD.

Another unique compilation by a seasoned veteran, this DJ mix offers a lively, hip-shaking meditation in Chicago House.

Despite the different springs feeding into these women's inspirational homes, the album is successful at uniting these unique, accomplished musicians.

With touches of blues, jazz, hip-hop and experimental electronica, Juba Dance has created a genre of its own.

Sounds like a youthful Eminem crashing a polka party and bringing Moby along.

Experiments heavily with dark beats and tweaks disco lines.

An existential tour through a swinging spectrum of emotional highs and lows, the album rawly reflects on the contemporary and universal crises faced by both jazz and humanity.

An "endless reverie" of remixes by one of world music's top vocalists.

To stay a superstar, though, a DJ's got to be on top of the game; to remain relevant, the music has to respond to ever-changing contemporary cultural needs.

A solid house music mix, Agave Nectar Volume 1 needs a little sugar to liven its sound up.

Yndi Halda has woven a beautiful tapestry with their debut.

Fela Kuti's afrobeat bangs on with Antibalas' fourth release.

Releases on Nublu prove as varied and unpredictable as nights out at the like-named live-music bar/lounge in New York's Alphabet City -- you never know who's going to show up, or what mood they're going to be in.

The New Delhi-based duo MIDIval PunditZ creates dance music that mirrors contemporary India: a hybrid of tradition and technology. Too bad their remixes don't always see this reflection.

This intertwining of informed lyrics with forward-thinking production lends new meaning to the phrase intuitive jazz.