Artist	Song
Gogol Bordello	Your Country
A Hawk and a Hacksaw	Gadje Sirba
Balkan Beat Box	Quand Esct-Ce Qu'on Arrive
Shantel	Disko Partizani
Leningrad (EsfFfadaS)	Dances (Oaf÷v)
Slavic Soul Party!	Teknochek Collision
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!	Tzibeles Bulgar
J.U.F.	J.U.F. Dub
Burhan +tal & Trakya All Stars featuring Smadj	Karakas Mahallesi
Balkan Beat Box	Hermetico
The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band	Ishai's Freylekh
DJ Click | Mahala Ran Banda	Romano Dance
Balkan Beat Box	Cha Cha
Leningrad (EsfFfadaS)	WWW
OMFO	Trans Balkan Express
Balkan Beat Box	Digital Monkey
Slavic Soul Party!	Vranje
Golem	Odessa
Leningrad (EsfFfadaS)	Dachniki (Da˜fFOF)
Shantel	Bucovina (Felix B Booty Mix)
Gogol Bordello	Underdog World Strike

Comment:

Genre:A mixed bag of Punk/dance/gypsy/klezmer/DJ/pop/techno/I really have no idea, make up your own

Origin: Ukraine, across the Balkans, Turkey, Germany, Israel and other parts of the Middle East, the ether, and mostly colliding in New York, New York (hence the title)

If you can sit still while listening to this, please see a physician. :)

A couple of notes:
#1 - I started out with and closed with Gogol Bordello. That is where my interest in a lot of this music was first stirred. And Your Country seemed like a fitting place to start, both as an immigrant's lament and a life without borders anthem.

#5 - As best I can work out this song translates to something like, "I don't come to visit you because I love you, or to eat salad and drink your vodka. I come for the music and when the music starts - DANCES. I dance, dance, dance. Your friends are sick of me. When it's time for bed, I am up on the table dancing. I come for the music... etc." If anyone out there speaks Russian, help me out.

#15 Odd, this is. Kind of an anorak version of Daft Punk, but real train whistle sounds are worth the price of admission.

I guess it is also worth saying that I thought using the word gypsy (instead of Roma) was not politically correct, but it is all over the CDs and websites of the artists here who identify themselves as gypsies, so I have used it, too. No offense intended to anyone.

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