Various: Mystic Groove

By GRAHAM REID

(Herald rating: * * * )

Subtitled "a global journey into the Asian underground" this 10-track collection features Nitin Sawhney, Thievery Corporation, Black Star Liner and others who raid the music cupboard for tabla drums, sitars and Arabian fiddles, sample a fair old swag of Indopop, and run in the beats beneath.

It's the new exotica with the same veneer of sophistication as the old, is slightly dreamy and occasionally dubbed up, and if played at a polite volume will provide a pleasant ambience as you peer through the incense smoke. Soon to be appearing at an upmarket Indian restaurant near you.

Label: Quango/FMR