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The ghost of the late James “J Dilla” Yancey still haunts Madlib, who calls his musical comrade the “Coltrane of Beats” on this exuberantly melancholy tribute. With song titles like “In Jah’s Hands” and “Infinity Sound,” this may be the Beat Konducta’s most spiritual release to date.

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For their third album, and first in five years, Chicago-based electro poppers Joshua Eustis and Charlie Cooper nod to recent "new disco" (Lindstrøm, Lifelike & Kris Menace) and "neo-trance" (Booka Shade, Mobilee crew) styles. But at heart, the twosome are still laptop experimentalists.

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For his third album, Quentin "Mr. Oizo" Dupieux rapaciously chops disco classics into two-minute mini-beats ("Positif," "Bruce Willis Is Dead") or debauched club-kid romps ("Two Takes It," with saucy rapper Carmen Castro).

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Grindcore guitar, industrial clamor, stentorian rhymes?

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On their sixth album, this Oakland duo (plus guests Devin the Dude and Brother Ali) explicitly address an urban audience unbowed by class warfare and street crime. Unabashedly upbeat, MC Zumbi compares ghetto life to being a "caged bird," but even when he dismisses haters ("Burning incense, yeah, they tried to call us yoga"), he sounds optimistic.

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On his first collection of original material since 2001's Fight to Win, Afrobeat scion Femi Kuti and his sprawling Positive Force ensemble unfurl 12 songs of serpentine rhythms and civic disobedience.