Need Help: International Music?
Ok, I have a gig tomorrow, and I just got a text not to long ago from the owner of the venue that Im playing at, and the text goes…
“Hi can you bring international music”
A little back ground on the place, its a mediterranean restaurant/bar/hookah lounge. The owners are from Armenia & from Mexico (dont ask). And its going to be a dinner/dance V-Day party.
I a little lost on whats international music…anyone care to give this one a stab?
To take a stab, I would imagine any tracks with another language other than english might be a start.
But “international” dosnt really spring to mind any specific genre…
The more i think about it, the less sense it makes…
What do they play in INT Airports, You could always play some deep elavator music and come over ther mike with:
Flight GA773, is now boarding at terminal 17…
Bags are not to be left unattended, If you should see an unattented bag please report it to airport security.
Get a sample of a jumbo preparing for takeoff…
I still a little lost, but I just remembered that they have having a belly dancer, so maybe some type of middle eastern music maybe?
Sounds like they want arabic music then.
yeah, i need to google some best of’s
Go to a hookah bar, maybe one in westwood or Burbank and scope out the tunes. Ive heard the stufff. Its kinda cool actually. A friend of mine is a sick hookah fanatic and always takes me to all these cool hookah bars all over LA. They are always bunking cool tunes. Some of it will be Middle eastern and sound kinda trancey.
Hey Jes, you might want to look into Balkan Beats.
(DJ Samim or something)
It’s housy, with accordeons etc. Maybe that’s something to go for?
maybe call the owners and ask some more specifics or examples of artists instead of guessing? 
Looks like they dont really know what they talking about, so just go with your own genre,
maybe a little mainstream/commercial, and just rock that place 
Hey.
This may be a little late but at least it’s something you can check out for next time.
There’s a label called Putumayo World Music that does compilations with a lot of different kinds of music. A lot of it is pretty good and they have release a couple of Chill out compilations. It could be worth checking out.
The link is http://www.putumayo.com/en/
Don’t know if it’s what you are looking for but it’s worth checking out.
/D
this is probably too late but try these - there is a mix of traditional and cross over contemporary styles - these should set you on some sort of direction - this is off the top of my head - if you specify a country i might be able to name others
or try Calabash music or type in world music to Last FM
India, Rajasthan, Pakistan
Nurat Fateh Ali Khan (the traditional stuff is more to my taste than the contemporary stuff)
Ravi Shankar (Portrait of a Genius)
Zakir Hussain
Musafir
Tabla Beat Science
Kali Dwapar
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Bally Sagoo
if you want a sample of a jumbo jet taking off and some samples of inflight announcement try
Talvin Singh - Flight 408 - check out the track Butterfly .. incredible
Africa
Bole2Harlem - excellent stuff - Ethiopian pop
Daraa J - Hiphop - especially the track Boomrang - Le cycle (ft Rokia Traoré)
Mulutu Astake - Ethiopian Jazz from the 60’s and 70’s
Nuru Kane
Oumou Sangare
Baaba Maal
Vieux Farka Toure
Tiken Jah Fakoly
Argentina
Tango Nuevo music …
Gotan Project
Fernandez Fierro
Bajafondo Tango Club
Otros Aires
Otros Aires
Piazzola (old school stuff)
Gypsy/Klezmer etc
Gadjo Dilo soundtrack
Electric Gypsyland
Goran Bregovic
Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Taraf de Haidouks
Warsaw Village Band
Shantel
Kocani Orkestar
Arabia - Belly Dance etc
Natacha Atlas
Birol Topaloglu
…basically look up Darbuka drums or bellydance i guess
Spain
Ojos de Brujo
The Story of Flamenco
Hungary
Mitsou
Ando Drom
Australian Aboriginal
Yothu Yindi
Djalu Gurruwiwi (if you want no nonsense traditional style Yidaki ..”didge” from NE Arnhem Land)
Jeremy Cloake - especially the Resonance cd - excellent mix of world instruments and “organic techno”
Hey thanks guys for the info, I just found some music online and most likely pick some up.
Could also be World music
I was only thinking the other day that I hadnt yet heard some good didgeridoo mixed into dance music.
Its such an organic sound, it would just sound so good on the right track..
im going to look up this Djalu Gurruwiwi!
mmmm
i would say find some other “didge” music than looking up Djalu to mix into dance music - i thought that you were just playing tracks of world music and not mixed into dance music
Djalu plays traditional style Yidaki .. Yolngu style, old man style - not very good for mixing into dance music and personally, after spending time with Djalu and Yolngu people i know i would nt want to hear this mixed with dance music -
i guess i have some strong opinions on this due to having a little insight into ancient traditional copyright systems of indigenous people and Yolngu culture - plus … i think the didge thing has been overdone …
if you really want - i think i have some studio recordings of myself playing Yidaki and will send it to you and you are free to chop it up and use it how you want and - it might take me a few weeks as im about to go visit my mum and the lappie will be staying here in cph
its up to you - just my opinion
cheers
ahem, from 92, this classic tune from Aphex Twin:
At Earth dance here in perth there was some dude mixing psytrance while playhing the didge at the same time !
Impressive list
howd this go?
it went good, I got some cd’s that had arabic music, which 1/2 of the Armenians were cool with, but the other half were Russian-Armenians so it was some what of a battle. They also had a belly dance and she dance for about 30mins.
The only thing that pissed me off was some guy was talking shit about the music I was playing (spanish music) which 80% of the people were dancing to. One of his friends asked me if I could play a Armenian slow slong, which I did and then I closed the night with american slow songs, later he asked me to play another Armenian hip hop which I had already played earlier, I told him to hold up for a couple of songs. They ended up sending his girlfriend for the cd and they she started talking sh!t to me. They left making a scene, which made them look bad, I really didnt care because everytime I dj their is always atleast 1 hater.