Track 1
Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Jamaica)
Bob Marley and the Wailers were a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers. Bob Marley and the Wailers formed in Kingston, Jamaica and consisted of Bob Marley himself as guitarist, song writer and lead singer, Wailers Band as the backing band and the I Threes as backup vocalists. The band included the brothers Carlton Barrett and Aston "family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively.
Track 2
Everything I Own - Ken Boothe (Jamaica)
Ken Boothe (born 1948 in Kingston, Jamaica) is known as "Mr Rocksteady" for his prominence during the musical period 1966-1974 and was a major idol for the to-be members of UB40. Boothe started by recording a version of Sandie Shaw's "Puppet on a String" in 1967. Later the same year, Boothe and Alton Ellis had a successful U.K. tour with the group The Soul Vendors. Under new direction from record producer Lloyd Chalmers, the song "Everything I Own" surprisingly was Number One in the UK in 1974.
Track 3
One Flute Rhythm - Two Fingers (UK/Canada)
Two Fingers is Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman on the tunes and production. Two Fingers' music is a sparse bump of hip-hop that has been blended with the twitch of dubstep, the pace of grime, and the bass of d&b, resulting in tunes which can be stealthy and brittle, booming and sexy or towering and monolithic. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of electronica. Together in Montreal, they applied production techniques associated with UK styles such as drum & bass to the template of hip hop.
Track 4
Ne me quitte pas - Jacques Brel (Belgium)
Jacques Brel (1929–1978) was a French-speaking Belgian singer and author-composer. Known in the English-speaking world mainly through translations of his songs, he is also remembered in French-speaking countries as an actor and director. Brel was born on 8th April 1929 in Schaarbeek, a district of Brussels, and lived half of his life in Paris. He died of lung cancer on 9th October 1978 in Bobigny in the suburbs of Paris, and is buried in the Marquesas Islands.
Track 5
Coyote - Mad Caddies (USA)
The Mad Caddies are a ska punk band from Goleta/Santa Barbara/Solvang, California. The band formed in 1995 and has released five full-length albums, one live album, and two EP's. Their sound has influences from a wide range of genres, including ska, punk, hardcore, swing, reggae and jazz. Founding members Chuck Robertson, Sascha Lazor, Todd Rosenberg, Carter Benson and James Malis started the group in high school but the band's membership has changed frequently since its inception.
Track 6
Techno Dance - Sven Stevanov
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Track 7
Gangnam Style - PSY (South Korea)
PSY is a pseudonym of WrPark Jae-sang (Hangul: 박재상; born December 31, 1977) he is a South Korean singer-songwriter, model, rapper, dance musician and record producer. He is popular for his humorous videos and stage performances, and has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Ellen Degeneres Show, Extra, Good Sunday: X-Man, The Golden Fishery, The Today Show and Saturday Night Live.
Track 8
Suerte (Whenever, Wherever) - Shakira (Colombia)
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira, is a Grammy-award winning Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, music-video director, dancer, choreographer, instrumentalist and philanthropist who has sold over sixty million records worldwide. She has won ten Grammy awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. She has been in the music industry since 1990, releasing her first album the following year.
Track 9
Minor Swing: To Django - Children of the Revolution (Greece/USA)
In 1998 vocalist Vassili and guitarist Eric Jaeger joined musical forces to, create a new sound in contemporary world music and the band Children of the, Revolution was born., They experimented for six months, blending music from their Greek and flamenco roots with American rock influences. After meeting Barcelona-born flamenco dancer/guitarist/vocalist Encarnación and belly dancer/vocalist Amelia, they began to perform in Seattle clubs.
Track 10
Por minha conta - Ana Moura
Portuguese vocalist Ana Moura, whose soulful and riveting interpretation of her land's captivating fado style has made her a star in Europe. Ana Moura has become a leading exponent of this poetic, deeply expressive idiom which personifies the Portuguese psyche as it explores such universal themes as lost love, separation, and longing. As Ana explains, "It's very special because it's all about emotions and feelings. It needs no translation."
Track 11
Morning Holds A Star - Baby Dee (USA)
Baby Dee (b. 1953, in Cleveland, OH, USA), is the pseudonym of a performance artist / harpist / accordionist / singer-songwriter. Her latest release is "A Book of Songs for Anne Marie" (Feb '10, TinAngelRecords). In NYC, Dee is best known as the badly angelic, Shirley Temple obsessed, high riding cat that ruled the streets of 90s Lower Manhattan. Her quest for adventure & little fishes led her to become the bilateral hermaphrodite of Coney Island Circus Sideshow & Kamikaze Freak Show (EU).
Track 12
Shukran Arigato - Hossam Ramzy (Egypt)
Hossam was born in Cairo, Egypt. His musical career began as early as the age of three when he was given his first drum, an Egyptian traditional Tabla. Hossam was encouraged by his artistic family members to master his craft and studied under leading Cairo music teachers. When he moved to Saudi Arabia he joined several Bedouin tribes which gave him a rich insight into the cultural origins of Middle Eastern music and became the inspiration for many of his later rhythmic directions.
Track 13
Having A Party - Lee "Scratch" Perry (Jamaica)
Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on 20th March 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) is one of the most influential people in the development of reggae and dub music in Jamaica. Perry began his career in the late 1950s working with Clement Coxsone Dodd's sound system. He eventually performed a variety of important tasks at Studio One as well as recording about thirty songs, but the pair eventually stopped working together due to personality and financial conflicts.
Track 14
We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP (Australia)
Yolanda Be Cool is an Australian band made up of Sylvester Martinez and Johnson Peterson. They collaborated with Australian producer DCUP (real name Duncan MacLennan) to release an international single We No Speak Americano on the indie Australian label Sweat it Out they founded, sampling on a 1956 hit Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano by Renato Carosone and written by Carosone and Nicola "Nisa" Salerno. We No Speak Americano topped the German, Irish, UK, Argentine, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Belgian charts so far, and reached the Top 5 in Australia, Spain and Norway.
Track 15
Las Ramblas - Renaud García-Fons (France)
Renaud Garcia-Fons is a French double-bass player and composer known for his melodic sense and his viola-like col arco sound and sometimes even referred to as "the Paganini of double bass". He is influenced by jazz and classical music and by flamenco, new musette, and "imaginary folklore" traditions.
Track 16
Y Forforwyn - Gwyneth Glyn (Wales)
Gwyneth Glyn is a Welsh-language singer-songwriter from Llanarmon in Wales. She names Joni Mitchell as an influence, along with fellow Welsh-language artists such as Meic Stevens. Her first album, "Wyneb Dros Dro" was released in 2006 on the Slacyr label, and her second, "Tonau" in 2007. She is also a poet and playwright.
Track 17
War Again - Balkan Beat Box (International)
Balkan Beat Box is a world music group consisting of ex-Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat of Firewater and Big Lazy. As a musical project they often cooperate with a host of other musicians, both in the studio as well as on stage. Their current live crew consists of Tomer Yosef, Billy Levy, Ben Hendler, Itamar Ziegler, Dana Leung, Eyal Talmudi, Jeremiah Lockwood, and Peter Hess. Amongst their other collaborators are Victoria Hannah, the Bulgarian Chicks, Uri Kinrot, Dessislava Stefanova and gnawa player Hassan Ben Jaffar.
Track 18
Crazy Spinning Chicken - Pima Express
For decades, Pima Express has captured the hearts of fans throughout the Southwest and beyond with their mix of Country-Western, Rock & Roll, and Chicken Scratch. From the Akimel O'odham (The River People), Pima Express is proud to share their best and newest songs. These traveling Road Kings are sure to have you dancin' all night long.
Track 19
Can't Find Me Brother - Red Plastic Bag (Barbados)
Red Plastic Bag aka 'RPB' or merely 'Bag' (real name Stedson Wiltshire) is a calypsonian from Barbados. He has won the Barbadian calypso monarch competition several times. Hailing from the eastern, rural Barbadian parish of St. Philip, RPB became one of few performers from that region in the island to make it. He carries a large support group of fans that show up to cheer him on from "Stand C" when he performs against other calypsonians at the national stadium.
Track 20
You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) - Dan Penn (Jamaica)
Dawn Penn (born Dawn Pickering, 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer. In 1967 she recorded and had released the rocksteady single "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)", produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. In 1970, she left the music industry and moved to the Virgin Islands. However, in 1987 she returned to Jamaica and music. In the summer of 1994 she re-recorded and re-released the single "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" (with Steely & Clevie on production), topping the charts in the U.S., Europe, and her native Jamaica.
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