Some Japanese music media refer to the term "New Excentric" often these days.I don't know how other countries media call it though.
In short,this means that thsese days there're lots of music created which have some kind of ethnic elements becouse of total glovalization through internet development such as Myspace(it's the direct influence for the music).
I think you know well about these bands like MGMT, M.I.A, CSS, Klaxons, Late Of The Pier, Vampire Weekend....etc..
These artists are taking Eastern(oriental) music elements or tastes into their western music.It has created "Post-western music" not "Anti-western music".
And one magazine said this movement was started originaly by Beck.
His new album"Modern Guilt" can possibly prove that matter.
In his previous album"The Information",he has been imagining about "White Album"of the Beatles or "Sandinista!"of the Clash. In the 60's and 70's when these albums mentioned above were released,rock music approached more ethnic tastes and took various instruments and rythms and Psychedelic atomowhere....I really love thsese periods.
This age is not just the revival of thses ages of psychedelia.
We've got any technologies in this age, so now that more artists are taking thsese things into electro, techno beats or synth like 80's music and new rave like klaxons not just mixed only with rock music.....it can cteate really large range of music and it's getting more complicated.
In my opinion,in 60's or 70's of western countries,they hardly got informations of other countries especially of the east side.So their images of east side were really unrealistic and could say that it was idealistic and distorted.But now we can get any information through internet technology and world is getting quite similar in any areas.We can far more easily go and see overseas and communicate with foreign people without gap.
So kinda Myspace has brought us the environment where we can connect to artists and people in all over the world.The point is that the definitive difference between 60's paychedelia and this age of new excentric is borders of any music are disappearing and in any countries,we can hear quite similer music and placed in similar musical situation.Vice versa,eatern artists also take western music elements into their music...
Kids / MGMT
Timebomb / Beck
Let's Make Love And Death From Above / Cansei De Ser Sexy
Atlantis to Interzone / Klaxons
