To my ear, main problem is that it was distorted by such a modern easy methods.
While the charm of the percussion would be in dynamics, the details of the sound, the way drum is being hit, and which part of skin and so on. And when you apply the standard lap-top maximum distortion and few now already trademark effects, it's just about situation where any bongos will do it and any source will do it.
Whole thing becomes gimmick. Negro influence is just sucked into hi-tech western adaptation, where all the sweat, struggle, smell, religious meaning, cultural meaning, etc. is utterly distant, if not nonexistent. At least to listeners ear. Music someone with computer, driving through few filters programmed for this purpose.
Novelty is gone very soon, unless it would able to work even as sort of document from perspective of outsider. Presenting the sound of african tradition in interesting form. I don't think the idea of "doing something new" or "doing something unusual" is that relevant. More relevant would be wether its good or not. Many unused ideas may be unused because they were not that good ideas in first place.
It would be interesting to extend the topic, or form new topic, about successful and perhaps also meaningful combinations of traditional music (be it tribal or folk) and noise. And moments when it's done with people who relate it or people who just look it as outsider and use it from different perspective.
