piece by me on xenomania (with a small x, i.e. the syndrome, not the pop production team!), i.e. the new exoticism and fiending for all things post-geographically far flung... looking amongst other things at the beat-geek early-adopter chase to find the next global ghetto groove (aka woebot's "shanty house" of yore concept)

it's at the website for MTV Iggy (their panglobal station)

http://www.mtviggy.com/articles/xenomania-nothing-is-foreign-in-an-internet-age/