The Brooklyn-based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a world-groove party band with a purpose, a group whose deep beats and vivid melodic mural create one of the most infectious listening and dancing experiences in modern music. Taking its musical and political cue from Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and mixing it with the funk of James Brown and George Clinton as well as jazz, R&B and traditional African rhythms, the Orchestra displays a mood and mind-altering magic both onstage and on record. The various international backgrounds represented by the groups members lend Antibalas a truly global appeal. And with a name that means bulletproof in Spanish, they apply their mighty music to agitprop evangelism that sparks mental and bodily activism. The collectives most recent album, Security, was released last year on Anti-.