Oops, it's great when you discover half-finished blog posts 3 months later - I just realized that I was most of the way through posting an Ether Music playlist back in January or so when I had to stop, and never started again.
Anyhow, here is the description for 'Into The Ether' [YMU link]: "Looking for Gilles Peterson DJ-ed material, I stumbled across a small cache of excellent music from small London label Ether Music, including several tracks from Peterson compilations, plus odd world music Nirvana covers from Kad and a neat album from Seu Jorge (recently notable for appearing in The Life Aquatic."
"So, lots of world (particularly Brazilian!) jazzy beats here, and it's well worth checking all the source albums."