VIDEO OF THE DAY: “DIRTY MONEY” / “HIM BELLY NO GO SWEET” BY ANTIBALAS

Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, 132 Havemeyer St. in Williamsburg was home to four men who would soon be making their marks in two of Brooklyn’s most popular bands. While roommates Tunde Adebimpe and Dave Sitek formed TV on the Radio, Gabriel Roth and Martín Perna started the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Melding the Afro-fusion of Fela Kuti with Latin jazz, Antibalas became a New York City staple, encompassing a dozen members or more as they relentlessly toured and released such records as Liberation Afrobeat, Talkatif, Who Is This America? and Security. After a long road trip in support of their first album in five years, the simply titled Antibalas (Daptone, August 2012), which they recorded at Daptone’s House of Soul Studios with Roth, the band is returning to its roots with a welcome-home show December 14 at Brooklyn Masonic Temple with Red Baraat. On the new album, lead singer Amayo, keyboardist Victor Axelrod, guitarists Marcos García and Luke O’Malley, bassist Nikhil Yerawadekar, percussionist Marcus Farrar, and horn players Perna, Stuart Bogie, Aaron Johnson, Jordan McLean get plenty funky on a half dozen groovy tunes that range in length from 6:15 to 8:07, keeping the party going on such tracks as “Dirty Money,” “Him Belly No Go Sweet,” “Ari Degbe,” and ‘Sáré Kon Kon,” coming together, then breaking off into solos galore that will get even the most laconic booties shaking. It should be one wild and crazy homecoming indeed.