There’s a natural party-starting energy to the music of Quebec rapper KNLO that connects him spiritually to master showmen like James Brown and Michael Jackson. But he also possesses a cool conversational flow that evokes the sly rhymes of G-funk godfathers like Snoop Dogg, while his frenetic, eclectic beatscapes are steeped in both the traditional Congolese rumba of Le Grand Kallé and the futurist electro freakery of Flying Lotus.