Ladysmith Black Mambazo · 1987 Spin it Again - Seventy years of Black South African choral tradition, recorded at the Hit Factory in New York, miscategorized as folk music, and still more patient than anything else in your library.

Johnny Clegg & Savuka · 1988 Spin it Again - A white Zulu street dancer and an eight-piece band made the most politically dangerous music in apartheid South Africa, and it grooves the whole time.

Paul Simon · 1986 Spin it Again - A middle-aged folk singer went to apartheid South Africa with a hunch and came home with the fretless bass line that has been stuck in your head since 1987.

Vusi Mahlasela · 1990 Spin it Again - Recorded in Pretoria in 1990, this is what it sounds like when someone has been singing for their life and finally gets a microphone worth the trouble.

Imidiwan · 2016 Spin it Again - Tuareg guitar that sounds like it came from somewhere the satellites don't reach, played by people who clearly had no interest in making it easier for you.

Tinariwen · 2019 Spin it Again - Saharan blues recorded in the Mauritanian desert with a handful of American and Spanish guests, and somehow the sand gets into the speakers.