Diplomacy Through Music

Last year was the inaugural year of OneBeat, a monthlong residency program for musicians from around the world that some friends of mine from Found Sound Nation co-founded. In roughly a week's time the OneBeat 2013 fellows will begin their journey. What better time to reflect on the results of last year's experiment: the OneBeat 2012 Mixtape just dropped.

Its world music meets hip hop meets freak folk meets experimental meets noise. Its a feast of spontaneous creative energy. And its full of surprises.