After a best mate of mine introduced me to Fela Kuti’s works I’ve been real interested in hearing music from other cultures you don’t hear much stuff from. Doesn’t have to be traditional music styles (love it when genres and cultures fuse together, like Masayoshi Takanaka taking influence from Brazilian music), but I’d love to hear that as well!
I’m a fan of Bomba Estereo, from Colombia. They are sort of in the Electro Cumbia genre. Systema Solar is another of that type. I like their more up-tempo songs, they do have slower, pop-ballad type songs too.
They’re really fun, I heard a mix of Fuego in a club in Bogota when I moved there and loved them from thereon.