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Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta &bull; <i>Mapambazuko</i>

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta • Mapambazuko

Opening track "Una Cumbia En Kinshasa" easily sets the stage for this transcontinental sound melange, a collaboration between Peruvian-born, Berlin-based Hop and Congolese soukous guitar player Bakorta. It's full of joy and weird production touches

Kruder + Dorfmeister &bull; <i>1995</i>

Kruder + Dorfmeister • 1995

I can’t tell if having a name that sounds like something SNL cooked up for a sketch about a pair of Austrian DJs is good or bad for this pair of Austrian DJs. These soulful electronic compositions unearthed from the last century are no joke, though.

Tricky &bull; <i>Fall To Pieces</i>

Tricky • Fall To Pieces

Tricky’s approach to music, with subdued tempos and striking contrasts (like pitting his industrial grit voice against Marta’s honeyed vocals) has not dulled over the years, glinting in the streetlight like an out of place scalpel.