Bosnia was long a collision point of cultures, and Berlin is a continental crossroads. Bosnian mix-master Robert Soko lives in the German capital, where he fills the clubs with a wonderful montage of pan-European dance music...

Dance music, especially in places like New York City, draws from a global ocean of influences to keep the dance floor full. On Moon People, Brooklyn DJ-producer Nickodemus displays his range on tracks that filter echoes of reggae into dreamy...

Not that I could ever claim real t.A.T.u. fandom�like most American listeners, I�ll always view the duo as a novelty act�but I dismissed the group completely after their odd Sting-assisted, outer-space-romanticizing 2005 album, Dangerous and Moving. An old roommate of mine who majored in Russian made a strong case for the group�s pop-cultural merits, though, so I was persuaded to give them a secon...