| Artist | Album | Title | Label | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergent Garcia | Una y Otra Vez | Mi Son Mi Friend | Cumbancha | No |
| Ry Cooder ; Manuel Galbán | Mambo Sinuendo | Mambo Sinuendo | Nonesuch | No |
| Maurice El Médioni meets Roberto Rodriguez | Descarga Oriental | C'était Il y a Longtemps | Piranha | No |
| 3 Mustaphas 3 | Heart of Uncle | Trois Fois Trois | Ryko / Ace | No |
| Orishas | French Urban Music | Mujer | French Music Export Bureau | No |
| Control Machete | Uno, dos: Bandera | de | Universal Music Latino | No |
| 3eme Oeil | French Urban Music | Si Triste | French Music Export Bureau | No |
| Ellen Mary McGee | fRoots 34 | The Fatal Flower Garden | Southern Rag Ltd | No |
| Boston | Guilty Pleasures Vol. 3 | More Than A Feeling | Ministry of Sound-Sony | No |
| Osmani Soundz | Anokha-Soundz of the Asian Underground | Spiritual Masterkey | Quango | No |
| The Demon Barbers | Looking For A New England | The Good Old Days | fRoots | No |
| Chris Wood | Looking For A New England | Caesar | fRoots | No |
| Dogan Mehmet | Looking For A New England | The Raging Seas | fRoots | No |
| Three Day Threshold | Shite'n'onions Volume 2: What the Shite | Pub with No Beer | Omnium | No |
| Boiled in Lead | Balkans Without Borders | Shopetzki Kopanitsa | Omnium | No |
| Garmarna | Balkans Without Borders | Halling from Macedonia | Omnium | No |
| Sviraj | Balkans Without Borders | Rece Cica | Omnium | No |
| Reptile Palace Orchestra | Iguana Iguana | Night Is What A Harbor's For | Omnium | No |
| Pyx Lax (Πυξ Λαξ) & I Muvrini | Ase Thn Eikona Na Milaei | Tora (Ava Manos Ksudous) | Minos EMI | No |
| Dub Syndicate | Fear of A Green Planet | Higher Than High | Shanachie | No |
| Dub Colossus | Addis Through the Looking Glass | Guragigna | Real World Records | No |
| Mahmoud Fadl | Drummers of the Nile Go South: Nubian Travels | Nubian Walk | Piranha | No |
| Mahmoud Fadl | Drummers of the Nile Go South: Nubian Travels | Ana Ayan (I Am Tired of Longing For You) | Piranha | No |
| Cesaria Evora | Café Atlantico | Roma Criola | Lusafrica / Nonesuch | No |
| Gigi | Illuminated Audio | Gud Fella | Palm Pictures | No |
| Gigi | Illuminated Audio | Guramayle (Slight Return) | Palm Pictures | No |
| Kenny G and Rahul Sharma | Namaste | Brhama-Vishnu-Shiva | Concord | Yes |
| Nickodemus | Moon People | The Nuyorican Express feat the Candela Allstars | ESL Music | Yes |
| Sybmbole | Sembeh Ma Fa Fe | Beringefundefe | Stronghold Sound | Yes |
| Jon Balke ;Kheir Eddine M'kachiche ;Barokksolistene ;Amina Alaoui ;Jon Hassell | Siwan | Itimad | ECM | No |
| Värttinä | Utu | Manattu | Rockadillo | Yes |
| Manuel Galbán | Blue Cha Cha | Y Deja | Concord | Yes |
| The Funkees | Dancing Time: the Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77 | Ogbu Achara | Soundway Records | Yes |
| Ablaye Cissoko ; Volker Goetze | Amanké Dionti | Haïti | Motéma Music | Yes |
| Rob | Make It Fast, Make It Slow | But You | Soundway | No |
"Worlds of Music" presents the traditional and contemporary sounds that could be found anywhere in the world. On the program one may hear anything from anonymously recorded chants or work songs of an isolated or bygone culture on to trip-hop or club sounds by urban expatriates where cultural boundaries are fuzzy.