Wandering around the Net the other day, I found a good Canadian-based site called Beats Without Borders. It features a good clip of a Cheb i Sabbah show, over in the “multimedia” section. It also has some very good music mixes – one, by DJ Adrian, starts playing as soon as you get to the main page, and two others are featured in the “Multimedia” section.
I should add, though, that I am not sure what the future of the Beats Without Borders collective is going to be. It seems that everything on this page is at least a year old, and I saw news that one of the four DJs in this collective, Lady Ra, is going very far abroad for a while – in part, at least, to explore the roots of some of those beats.
I will have to look into the whole matter further, but I didn’t want to delay getting a few more people in touch with this source of fine global music, especially if there is any chance that it will disappear.
