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For the world citizen: first Libraradio, supreme station, full of surprises with lots of Roma, Balkan music among others, guaranteed to make you spin. Support it!

+ a sample of some of my favorites artists - in no particular order:
Armenia: Djivan Gasparyan
Finland: Kimmo Pohjonen
France/Spain: Manu Chao
Bosnia/France: Goran Bregovic
Romania: Taraf de Haidouks,
Macedonia: Kocani Orkestar,
Brazil: Tom Zé (his own site), Caetano Veloso
France: Hughes LeBars, Boby Lapointe, Boris Vian, Carla Bruni, Ekova
Argentina: Astor Piazzola
Senegal: Baaba Maal,
U.S.: Balkan Beat Box
Tuva: Yat-Kha
Myanmar (Burma): U Yee Nwe
Indonesia: Sundanese (West Java) Gamelan Music (the closest to the music of paradise)

And some recent (and not so recent) outstanding albums:
Tales of Weddings and Funerals, Electric Gypsyland, Fly, Fly My Sadness, Tuva, Among the Spirits, Ekova's Heaven's Dust, Banda Ionica's Passione, Gravikords Whirlies and Pyrophones, Accordion Tribe.

For streaming world music, try Swedish Radio's SRVärlden, Radio France International Musique, Frequence Terre,or Mondomix
with a variety of excerpts.
Also worth-the-visit labels include Piranha in Germany and Crammed Discs in Belgium.

For the adventurous: New Sounds with John Schaefer, at WNYC (make sure to check out their archives).
For an avant-garde treat of culture, audio, video, nothing equals UBUWEB!!
and the spicy music station, Brainwashed.
Check-out the following labels and and websites: sub rosa label, in Belgium (especially their Anthologies of Noise and Electronic Music)
the Electronic Music Foundation,
ElectroCD,
Empreintes Digitales, Sonhors,
and the DIY Sonus
the World Soundscape Project and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Some key composers include Pierre Henry through (especially his Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir),
the great "sound organizer", Todd Dockstader,
and the very contemporary Les Phonogenistes.

And for another surprise from Slovakia, Mixing of Particular Solids Radio.

To search on your own for that new sound: Live www Radio and Television (the global village with its traffic reports and soccer scores).

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