“Fusion” is a dated term, or maybe the music has finally caught up with the concept. Let’s see. The musical traditions and sensibilities of Africa, India, Mexico, Cuba and the rest of the world brought to producing beats, samples, electronics, not to mention the multi-ethnic-experiments of Bill Laswell or Afro Celt Soundsystem. On Tonight’s Can Haz DJ we’ll survey these and other current musical hybrids on a world spinning tour.

We’ll also flashback to piano month, just ended, with one last chunk of great piano players. We’ll play a tune for Poly, and one from the Gaiman-Palmer-Folds-Kulash project 8in8 as well as a little something or two off the brand new Tied & Tickled Trio (who play that catching CanHazDJ theme song).

Here are some examples of the state of world meets electronica music: