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Around the World in 20 Songs
| 1 | Can't Stop |
| 2 | Over the Rainbow |
| 3 | Ne Me Jugez Pas |
| 4 | Amarain |
| 5 | Ingoma |
| 6 | Mbonqane Groove |
| 7 | Ca Plane Pour Moi |
| 8 | L'Alize |
| 9 | Abracadabra |
| 10 | Du Hast |
| 11 | Beautiful Life |
| 12 | Put Your Records On |
| 13 | Five Colours in Her Hair |
| 14 | A Stor My Crow |
| 15 | The Rovin Dies Hard |
| 16 | Solo Sword Dance |
| 17 | Lenda |
| 18 | Three Little Birds |
| 19 | Tumbling Tumbleweeds |
| 20 | Strong Badia National Anthem |
Featured Article
IMP's Top 10 Albums and Singles of 2008
IMP's real value has always been the inherent diversity of its members' choices. Unlike other music-related websites who strive to be arbiters of taste, IMP's primary mission is to fuel the fire of subjectivity. Accordingly, the annual IMP top ten lists are scattershot and surprising, ranging from Brooklyn indie rock to Bangladeshi folk to Balearic house. So, publishing the cumulative year-end list ends up as a sort of disservice to that subjectivity, muffling the beautiful noise of each member's preferences. Meaning, accept these two lists at face-value, but seek out the individual lists of IMP members—on their blogs, in Facebook positings, and in their monthly mixes. Now, here's a snapshot of the year that was 2008, courtesy of IMP.
-- Ryan Mixtape
A Subjective Guide to World Music Labels
These are some of the most prominent purveyors of World Music, but there are dozens, if not hundreds, more small, local, and specialty labels that are dedicated to making available the sounds of the human race. I wanted to share these five with you, not only because of their range and accessibility, but also because they have the resources and the vision to offset the exploitation that World Music artists have long endured at the hands of the record industry.
-- Robert Mead
The Mixtape as Disruptive Technology
Essentially, home-recordable cassette tapes and inexpensive dubbing technology, first made popular in the early-1980s, were the original death knell of the stagnant, stodgy music industry. The so-called filesharing trend started when consumers who had already bought a record, tape, or CD from their local Sam Goody store started picking bits and pieces of the album to re-record and give away as a mixtape. More importantly, the consumer isn't really avoiding payment, but is instead demonstrating new ways to consume.
-- Ryan Mixtape