One World. Many Rhythms. A Shared Journey Forward. As the year turns and the road opens wide, Groovasmique invites you into a fresh stretch of the journey—a daily road trip through the sounds, stories, and rhythms of the world. World music isn’t a genre here,It’s a way of listening. A way of choosing curiosity over habit, rhythm over routine, and connection over noise. Every day, Groovasmique steps beyond the dominant Western pop lane to explore other ways of breathing time—through African polyrhythms, Latin grooves, Caribbean soul, Global jazz, Electronica, Folk traditions, and future-forward fusions that refuse to stand still. What began decades ago as a record-store category has become something far more alive: a living, breathing soundscape rooted in place, ancestry, movement, joy, resistance, migration, and love. This is music that honors where it comes from without being trapped there. Music that welcomes collaboration, diaspora voices, and hybrid identities.Music that gently—and sometimes fiercely—pushes back against the disposable and the over-produced. Groovasmique carries this lineage forward as a daily practice. Each playlist is chosen like choosing the road for the day: desert or jungle, city or coast, sunrise movement or moonlit ceremony. Music here is not background—it is nourishment. A way to stay awake, present, playful, and deeply human.

What the music tells us (and where it wants to go)

Across everything Groovasmique has shared—on air, online, and through listener response—a few clear truths emerge: The core sound pillars already present include:

  • African-rooted music (Afrobeat, Highlife, Mbalax, Ethio-jazz, Desert Blues)
  • Latin and Afro-Latin traditions (Cumbia, Salsa, Afro-Cuban, Andean, Brazilian)
  • Caribbean currents (Reggae, Dub, Ska, Zouk)
  • Global jazz and jazz-fusion
  • Psychedelic folk and roots revival
  • Downtempo, dub, ceremonial and global electronica
  • Global bass, trance-informed club music
  • Free-form, movement-oriented selections that support dance, yoga, meditation, and creative flow

Listener descriptions and implied reviews consistently point to:

  • “Vibey,” immersive, and soulful listening
  • Music that supports movement, healing, and creativity
  • A sense of flow rather than rigid programming
  • Surprise, discovery, and emotional resonance

Taken together, the message is clear:Groovasmique  a safe, joyful, exploratory space—and the door is wide open to expand even further. For instance in my early musical tastes I loved Medieval music. I could easily drop some Baraoque and Roll in there. So as I sit here pondering I have to say I am going to delve deeply in 2026. Not just for Ha Ha's but just because. It has been a long strange trip. So many genres. I do keep coming back to African rhythms often, Reggae and Ska Vibes alot, World Music and Global beats in the mix too. So much of the same but adding to the Gumbo. Still an open format with no block programming, ad free, dj free on the main mix. Podcast by the summer as I have already agreed to collaborating with a friendly soul on that. So Groove on my friends and drop by once in a while. On an interesting note the average listening time is 122 minutes listening each day per person. So happy to have you in the rumble seat of my retro groovebus! This month I will start reviewing albums old and new. Have a safe and hopefully prosperous new year. 


Ceremonial Global Fusion

(also known across scenes as: Organic Global Bass, Ancestral Electronic, or Spiritual World Fusion). This isn’t a single rigid genre—it’s a convergence zone, and it fits my selections uncannily well.) 

This fusion sits exactly at the crossroads of what I consistently gravitate toward:

 Spiritual influence

  • Music designed for trance, ritual, meditation, ecstatic dance
  • Repetitive, hypnotic rhythms that alter state rather than chase hooks
  • Deep respect for ceremonial time (slow builds, cyclical patterns)

 Diaspora rhythms

  • African, Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean rhythmic DNA
  • Music shaped by migration, remix, and cultural cross-pollination
  • Sounds that feel rooted yet nomadic
  • Use of traditional instruments (drums, flutes, strings, chants)
  • Field recordings, nature sounds, breath, voice
  • A felt relationship with land, ancestry, and body

 Native / earth-connected vibes

This is music as practice, not product—which mirrors how you relate to sound daily.

Ceremonial Global Fusion typically blends:

  • African polyrhythms & Afrobeat offshoots
  • Indigenous and folk instruments (Andean, Sahelian, Middle Eastern, Celtic, Native)
  • Dub, downtempo, minimal techno, global bass structures
  • Psychedelic texture and jazz improvisation
  • Intentionally positive, expansive emotional tone

Think: dance floor meets ritual circle.


Key artists that define this space (recent past → now)

These names consistently sit in my lane and selections from them will be amongst artists joining the mix :

 Ancestral Electronic / Organic Global Bass

  • Nicola Cruz – Andean ceremonial electronica
  • Chancha Via Circuito – digital folklore & deep roots
  • El Búho – migratory, nature-based sound journeys
  • Sabo & Goldcap – desert folk meets downtempo ritual
  • Mose – ecstatic dance, heart-centered global fusion

 Desert, Afro & trance-inflected fusions

  • Mdou Moctar – Tuareg guitar as spiritual rock
  • Tinariwen – ancestral blues of the Sahara
  • Nour Eddine Fatty – Gnawa trance meets modern production

 Global ritual club

  • Acid Arab – Middle Eastern scales + electronic pulse
  • DJ Lag – stripped-down gqom as ceremony
  • Afro Celt Sound System – still relevant as a blueprint
  • Transglobal Underground – elders of the form

 Dub, spirit & diaspora

  • Thievery Corporation (spiritual cuts)
  • Gaudi – dub as devotional space
  • Jah Wobble & Invaders of the Heart

Why this genre keeps growing

Because it answers a modern hunger:

  • People want meaning, not just beats
  • They want music they can move, breathe, heal, and gather with
  • They want global culture without flattening it
  • They want positivity without emptiness

This is why this fusion shows up in:

  • Ecstatic dance & conscious movement spaces
  • Yoga, breathwork, ceremony, festivals
  • Late-night listening and sunrise rituals

Exactly where Groovasmique already lives.

"Civilizations rise and fall. Languages disappear. Borders shift. But rhythm persists — because rhythm is human time. You’re not chasing sound. You’re listening for home. And you keep finding it — in drums, in dance, in shared breath, in patterns that refuse to die. That’s not abstract. That’s human. So that is what I am cooking up for 2026. A musical Gumbo from a whisper of taste to a howl of spice!" 

Your Vibe selecter Colin @ Groovasmique Radio