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Richard Gehr | May 17, 2007

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Like a glossy yellow-bordered and lavishly illustrated magazine for your ears, National Geographic's ambitious world music website WorldMusic.NationalGeographic.com is a great place to discover new international sounds. Recent online features have zoomed in on Cuba, the Nigerian Afrobeat sound of the late Fela Kuti, Benin-born Angelique Kidjo's spunky new album Djin Djin (with a free MP3 of "Papa"), and the Grammy-winning klezmer sounds of New York's Klezmatics. The site's most recent weekly World Music Profiles podcast consists of an interview with Mali kora master Mamadou Diabate.

The organization recently released GeoRemixed: Big Beats for a Small Planet, an album's worth of downloads that give an urban twist to music from the Balkans, Africa, Israel, Romania, and elsewhere. It's a terrific introduction to bands like New York brass collective Slavic Soul Party and Tel Aviv Mediterranean surf quartet Boom Pam. Taking the global ubiquity of hip-hop for granted, GeoRemixed proves that some music sounds even better when taken out of its natural habitat.

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