World Music Essentials - North America

I have no explanation for the title of this album, because this has nothing to do with North America whatsoever. And part of it isn't world music either. Unless of course you consider any music in another language than your own to be world music. In my opinion however Latin Rock for instance is still rock, just in Spanish. 

And an album like this one, filled with music in Brazilian Portuguese And Spanish can never be North American essentials. And the second half of it is rap-hip/hop, so there goes the world music too.
And they sell it like this for 8 bucks on Amazon and even more on Itunes.

This is like selling a can of Campbell's creamy mushroom soup, and putting it in an online store, saying it's Swiss goat cheese.
It is forbidden to do so with food, where is the law for music?

Still there are a couple of songs worth listening to like the first track 'Telepata' from Domenico + Two, Moreno, Kassin, Domenico, 'Negra Presuntuosa' from Susana Baca (which is Afro-Peruvian, how very North American, lmao) and Manuel Donayre, Carlos Soto De La Colina with 'Yo No Soy Jaqui' and I never ever heard a cumbia reggae song before in my life (Cumbia Reggae_King Chango, J_A_ Blanco, 6_ Lee, L_ Blanco, L_ Ruiz - Revolution).

As a compilation however this album totally sucks, there is no idea behind it the songs don't match and it really puzzles me why 'Vamos Ya' from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs would be essential to anything. It is a remake of an old disco song (Move On Up) for sakes.

The song is from Manuel Donayre, also Afro-Peruvian. My guess is these are all artists that somehow ended up in USA, New York probably.

Track		Artist		Song		BPM
1		Domenico + Two, Moreno, Kassin, Domenico		Telepata		121
2		Los Amigos Invisibles, J.L. Pardo, M. Areas		Una Disco llena		123
3		Andrea Echeverri, Andrea Ecveherri, Hector Buitrago		Frases		109
4		Susana Baca		Negra Presuntuosa		113
5		Tom Ze		DUAS OPINIOES		111
6		Os Mutantes, Mutantes, Johnny Dandurand		Dia 36		90
7		Marcio Local		Soul do Samba		94
8		Bomba Estereo, Saumet, Mejia		Fuego		100
9		Cuarto Poder, Miguel Cerda, Edgar Silva		Poder En El Cuarto		105
10		Cumbia Reggae_King Chango, J_A_ Blanco, 6_ Lee, L_ Blanco, L_ Ruiz		Revolution		94
11		Carlinhos Brown, Timbabda, Os Z-rabe		Candyall Beat (Remix by Mr. Bill and Mr. Ben)		132
12		Manuel Donayre, Carlos Soto De La Colina		Yo No Soy Jaqui		140
13		Monareta, Andres Martinez, Camilo Sanabrb		Hip Chipol Luz Roja		98
14		Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Curtis Mayfield		Vamos Ya		151
15		Joel Francisco Perri		El eco de la zampona		109