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Eyewise Emanates – Outtallectuals’ Top Discoveries of 2020 in Reggae, Dub, Roots & Deep Dubstep  In 2020, we found more music than ever before in a wide range of genres. Hence, we decided to bring back our in-depth writeups and expand on our discoveries in a whole range of ...

Interview Outtallectuals’ Himalayan reggae ambassador, Cultivation Muzik, sat down with Easitwelve to discuss his decade-long dedication to reggae music & culture. Firstly, in the 40-min interview, conducted in a Nepali and English mix, the conversation covers the history of Outtallectuals x Cultivation projects. Subsequently, Cultivation dedicates the interview’s majority to ...

In anticipation of today’s grand premiere, we are excited to present Seppa and Chalky’s ‘ChkChk’ via our sister channel, Shivelight: Shivelight · Chalky & Seppa – ChkChk [Slug Wife] {Shivelight Premiere} The inseparable duo of Seppa & Chalky unite again at their home of the slugs to bring you technicolour ...

We return to you with the Outtallectuals blog after a 10-month hiatus since we discontinued our Ethnofusion platform and merged it with Samaya‘s Shivelight channel instead. The task of reviewing dozens of songs for a very limited number of readers had become daunting and it only made sense to us to keep ...

Overview There we have it; the ouroboros has finally eaten its tail and concluded its tale. After 4 years of continuous research and presentation, I have arrived at a point that I need to terminate my monthly operations with Ethnofusion blog. Since July 2014, I went on a mission to ...

Stoked to bring you September’s Ethnofusion Picks which proved to be, arguably, our most in-depth month to date. Tune in for the largest variety of electronic world fusion music you’ll find anywhere on the internet; that’s deep Middle Eastern dubstep, Balkan neuro, a South African / Russian merger, Afrobeats from ...

Presenting Ethnofusion Picks, version August 2018; this month, we give you a dose of top-calibre psychedelic & global dub music, socially-charged fusion music from Haiti, Costa Rica and Colombia, cultural exchange between Iranian and Indian beatmakers in Australia, Hispanic LA hip-hop legends working with Egyptian MCs, and a whole other ...

Instrumental terrasonic psychedelic bass music for your domes. In a first of a collaborative promotion series with our friends over at Shivelight YouTube channel, we like to present Flintwick; a new artist on our radar who’s carrying the tradition of world-infused psytrap in exquisite style. With his latest track, “Hourglass ...

  Ethnofusion is back yet again for its 35th edition of monthly picks, covering the finest global bass music from around the planet. Tune in for violin-led psychedelic elf music, conceptual Iranian avant-garde pop, Rajasthani dub, Middle Eastern and tribal dubstep, Andean cumbia dub, Spanish neurohop, instrumental Afro-house, Amazonian downtechno, ...

I’m glad to present yet another month of discoveries through this blog where I hope my musical finds are interesting enough to write thousands of words about, & hopefully some of you actually read & value it! Regardless of the scriptures, this month is again jampacked with some of the ...

  Presenting our Ethnofusion finds in May 2018, featuring a wealth of weird and wonderful musical styles including tribal and Bengali dubstep, Arabic and Andean downtempo, ancient Haitan soul, ethnic psybass, Byzantine mid-tempo, psychedelic klezmer, salsa glitch, and other non-traditional forms of trans-tribal collaboration. To clarify a few other points ...

Presenting the April edition of Ethnofusion with in-depth textual analysis of our favorite releases this month in a wide range of global styles; ranging from pan-Asian atmospheric beats, 12-min live band reenditions, Togolese trap,  deep oriental dubstep, post-apocalyptic Israel metal-infused ethnic breaks, Ethiopian mid-tempo, cinematic bass music and plenty of ...

Presenting the March 2018 edition of Ethnofusion Picks, carefully curated to include the month’s best world fusion music, including wacky genres like forest chill, Japanese half-time, footwork & post-industrial neuro, mutlicultural dub, tribal bass, Hindi trap n bass, Israeli-Persian psydub, Bolivian downtempo, Afrolatin house, tribal bass, and more. – Baxtak p.s. ...

Presenting the 2018 February edition of Ethnofusion blog, we bring you another month’s worth of hard-earnt discoveries and thoroughly-selected world electronic music; from avant-garde experiments of Iranian producer, Mahdyar, to downtempo bliss from Bwoy De Bhajan, a mixtape by Chinese trendsetter, Howie Lee, & much more. While we’ve sacrificed quantity ...