The term ‘World Beat’ music is often used to describe what, outside of the Western World, is just music. There are so many tempos, genres, and styles of what we call World Beat to the point where trying to lump them into one category seems almost pretentious, and incorrect cataloging at the very least. To address that here I have begun breaking this playlist down into playlists with more defined parameters, such as my Middle Eastern and World Dance Music playlists. The music on here ranges in tempo from slow folk to high energy dance beats, and covers many different types of “World Beat’ music, most of it African, Middle Eastern, Indian or Asian influenced.