I've been eating up science podcasts about music lately.  My favorite so far is a particular WNYC Radio Lab's musical language podcast, which right from the outset links speech to song.  They have a couple of more episodes on music (Pop Music and Earworms, the latter only availalbe to podcast subscribers).  A

Since my last trip around the web looking for music I like, I've stumbled upon a a lot more music that is more to my taste for club-beats-meeting-cultural-mixing (read "future folkloric").

I fell upon a mirror treasure trove in the blogariddims series (now over, direct podcast link here). While I haven't listened to everything on the series, a few standouts hit me for their tight mix of beats and global feel.  Here are my favorite DJs in the series....

This is an excellent example of what I like to call Future Folkloric.  Taking a simple classic story (a wolf and a pig) and retelling it in a new form.  And doing it excellently, I might add - so simple, and yet amazing.

It's dated, in Internet terms, but still good.