The Beat Konducta has a new music series: one-release-a-month for 2010. The latest instalment, out later this month, covers Africa: “This album bases itself on the obscure vinyl gems from the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements of African countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Ivory Coast.” I’ll get it.

Update.

Here’s Billboard’s review:

Veteran rapper Madlib‘s newest album, “Madlib Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa,” is the artist’s latest instrumental opus in a series of 12 albums dubbed “The Madlib Medicine Show.” In this episode, Madlib restricts himself to sampling African vinyl sounds from the early ’70s-and in compliance with orthodox hip-hop doctrine, each sample is buried in sacred obscurity. But the diversity of “Beat Konducta in Africa” borders on overwhelming, with about 78 minutes of African funk, rock, soul and Afrobeat. On “Red, Black and Green Showcase,” injections of half-second hip-hop vocals play over a regal, echoing horn loop. “Jungle Sounds Pt. 2” makes use of an electric guitar, while “African Map Watch” is more disco-flavored. And “Blackfire” begins with an interlude championing Nigerian musicians for prohibiting “the musical masturbation of the Western World” from curtailing their creativity. Acting as a collage of African sounds and rhythms that avoids coherence, the album’s greatest strength lies in its authenticity.

Rapreviews.com carried a long review that includes this:

This is one of the stronger Beat Konducta albums in terms of creating a groove, owing mostly to the source material. Drums are a central element in African music, and they feature prominently here. While Madlib does use a drum machine at times, most of the album features samples and loops of live drums. Hip hop is rooted in the beat, so taking it all the way back to its roots makes sense, and results in some of the most banging beats Madlib has created in a while. Madlib’s subdued spaciness is still present, but the music he’s sampling creates a steady rhythm that propels the album along.