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Nosrat Ali Kahn ( when your frame of mind is right:bgwp
If you like NFAK, then check out Star Rise - Asian Dub Foundation's remix on there will rip your ears out. But in a very familiar way. A great album, although all the NFAK purists hate it.

FWIW - I really like the Verve Remixed and Unmixed collections. Both versions of Simone's Sinnerman are awesome.

Thievery Corporation
Transglobal Underground
Can't forget Shpongle - heavy floyd influence there.
International/hip-hop/dancehall by M.I.A. and the more latin flavored Yerba Buena - "carmen santina angelica woods" and "bilingual girl" - or Manau who are really popular in France doing a kind of french-celtic-hip-hop
Forget "pickin on floyd" a lot of those "pickin on..." albums are weak rip-offs of the masters - Hayseed Dixie they cover Hells Bells with a triangle
Pretty much everything on Dakini Records especially anything the founder, Makyo puts out. Hard to find though, most of it goes out of print pretty quick and you have to get on ebay or p2p.
For ska, check out Pepper - from my home town. They sound a lot like Sublime.
Sinead O'connor recently discovered the irish influences in Jamaica and released a bunch of covers of old reggae standards the japanese edition has a second disc that is done in dub. Easily found on p2p nets everywhere.
Last season, the show "Weeds" turned me on to Cambodian surf rock by the US band Dengue Fever which then leads to american surf rock, mostly instrumental - Man or Astro-Man?
If you like the samba, Bebel Gilberto (daughter of the famous Gil and Astrud Gilberto) is excellent.
Also, the king of world chill mixes - the Buddha Bar series which are ridiculously overpriced and thus begging to be pirated...
Rocking celtic music (versus celtic rock) by Ashely MacIssac and Shooglenifty and Gaelic Storm and Tears for Beers and the not-anywhere-near-as-gay-as-their-name-sounds Peatbog Faeries.
King of Bass - Jah Wobble

Has anyone else heard Ozzy Osbourne and Dweezil Zappa covering "Stayin' Alive?" pretty good sheeit.
Last, but not least - Fat-boy Slim he's got some cool videos too