[infinitefurby]

WOW antiant...that's pretty crazy, I'll have to check some of them out. Here are two recommendations of mine:

1. ANY Indonesian gamelan music. Gamelan is usually a quite haunting form of music that's mostly played on gongs, bells, etc., and doesn't share the same scale that Western music does (I think it's a 5-tone scale, not sure tho). A good place to start is the CD "Gamelan Semar Pagulingan - Music from Bali", it's one of my favorites.

2. "Congotronics" by Konono No. 1 came out this year, and is an interesting album of sub-saharan electrified finger piano. You could actually play this one at a party, it's very energetic.

One particular type of music I've been trying to find on CD for a while is Pacific island slit drum music. I saw an exhibit which included it at a museum earlier this year, and it sounded amazing. Anyone know where I might start?