Zongo Junction: No Discount (Electric Cowbell)

Take a tab of acid, put on your Fela finery, and hit play and you've got the relentlessly inventive Afrobeat groove of this Brooklyn-based 11-piece band.The basic tracks were recorded live to two-inch tape at The Bunker in Williamsburg, so the groove is real. Produced by their guitarist Mikey Freedom Hart, who adds sonic flourishes here and there to tease the ear into repeated listens. No finer dance record for me this year, so far.