Looking over their list again reminds me - a lot of the cool stuff is not so much formally influenced by Western pop and rock, but simply comes from the electrification of the instruments - also mostly missed by 'world music'. Especially the stuff from North Africa - home of the guitar, it has produced some awesome things with the electric version. Also cool is the Syrian Omar Suleiman's electrified dabke music - a popular wedding singer with more than 500 releases according to Wikipedia, with keyboards supplying percussion and the traditional wind sounds.
Having recently spent several days in buses playing karaoke videos in Vietnam and Cambodia I should say there is also an awful lot of horrible hybrid music - in this case endless ballads with keyboard preset beats. Judging from the videos, 80 per cent of the songs are about true love in the countryside wrecked in the city when the girl trades up for a rich city guy and leaves her lover brokenhearted.
Mike Beggs