>
> Not really. There's all kinds of interesting music
> happening all over
> the world - Norwegian rap, Indian techno - that
> combines native
> musical traditions with the stuff you loathe. I've
> only scratched the
> surface, but I love it.
>
> Doug
> ___________________________________
You got that right. When Woj was in Petersburg a while ago, didn't he hear any of this stuff? It's blasting on the street all the time. 70% of the stuff on the Russian Top 10 is inevitably from the former Soviet Union.
Slavic techno-folk:
http://www.musicinrussia.com/musicpages/kupala.htm
Romanian folk-punk from the former Soviet Union:
http://www.zdob-si-zdub.com/?vers=eng&action=&id=&period=
Russian hip-hop:
http://dime32.dizinc.com/~russmus/bands-delfin.htm
Russian teen-oriented hip-hop:
http://dime32.dizinc.com/~russmus/bands-avariya.htm
Russian punk-ska:
http://dime32.dizinc.com/~russmus/bands-leningrad.htm
Russian art-pop:
http://dime32.dizinc.com/~russmus/bands-mmtroll.htm
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