By Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo and Walter Marsh
Photography by Robert Fletcher
World music. What on earth does that actually mean?
Is the term patronising? Yes. Over-simplifying? Definitely. It’s a tag that encompasses afrobeat, ska, blatnyak, funk, French chanson, gypsy fusion, Chaâbi, norteño and, courtesy of DJ Dexter, “Krumping”. It’s one that often makes for a kind of gentrified, dizzying [...]