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- Terre Differenti Records and Project - An independent record label aiming to explore new musical worlds extending to worldbeat, jazz and new instrumental music. Also featuring information on the musical project conceived and developed by Fabio Armani, an Italian composer who lives in Rome.
- Dissidenten - A German band sometimes referred to as the "grandfathers of worldbeat". Official site features news, discography, biography, pictures, reviews, lyrics, MP3s, and links.
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Wikipedia Articles
- Worldbeat - In popular music, worldbeat refers to any style of music which fuses folk music, often from non-traditional sources (essentially, outside the Appalachian folk and Celtic traditions) with Western rock or other pop influences.
- Reptile Palace Orchestra - The Reptile Palace Orchestradecent introduction to RPO on this non-commercial music site is an eclectic worldbeat RPO introduced and the source of the eclectic worldbeat quote band based in Madison, Wisconsin which specializes in lounge, klezmer and other Eastern European music. It began in 1994 with a gig at the Club de Wash, and since that time has become a notable fixture in the Madison music scene.
- Watusi (band) - Watusi is a popular Reggae/Worldbeat band formed in Dallas, TX in 1982 by Jimi Towry and a Rwandan native, Ruta Gengwa. Pioneers of the "Worldbeat" mix of Reggae, soca, Afrikan, Latin, funk and jazz styles, they have spread their music all over the world in the last 22 years.
- Obo Addy - Obo Addy (b. 1936) is an Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.
- Loop Guru - Loop Guru is a worldbeat group consisting of bassist/guitarist Salman Gita (born Sam Dodson) and programmer Jamuud (a.k.