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funkadelic - reworked by detroiters - westbound - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Sexy Ways (Recloose Disco Flip)
2. You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure (Alton Miller mix)
3. Get Your Ass Off & Jam (Marcellus Pittman remix)
4. Cosmic Slop (Moodyman mix)
5. Super Stupid (Dirtbombs version)
6. Music 4 My Mother (Underground Resistance mix)
7. Music 4 My Mother (Underground Resistance mix)
8. Undisco Kidd (Gay Marvine edit)
9. Take Your Dead Ass Home (The Fantasy version)
10. Let's Take It To The Stage (Amp Fiddler Laugin At Ya mix)
11. Standing On The Verge (Anthony Shake Shakir & T dancer remix)
12. You & Your Folks (Claude Young Jr club mix)
13. Be My Beach (Mophno & Tom Thump mix)
14. You & Your Folks (Claude Young Jr dub)
15. Let's Make It Last (Kenny Dixon Jr edit)
16. ooking Back At You (Ectomorph Stripped & dubbed)
17. Maggot Brain (BMG dub)

This album is a tribute from some of the most important recording artists currently working in the city of Detroit to these most influential of forefathers. The very finest talent now active in Detroit appear on the record, being given free rein to work on the multi-track tapes, to rework in any way they see fit.

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Funkadelic were the most influential group to emerge from Detroit in the 1970s. Their early albums have cast a long shadow over everything that came afterwards in the city. It was music that understood the past but was firmly aiming towards the future and mixed soul, funk and rock into an almost unimaginable stew. Albums such as “Maggot Brain", “Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow” and “Cosmic Slop” are regularly featured in all-time greatest lists. From the techno pioneered by the likes of Carl Craig and Underground Resistance, to the garage rock revival spearheaded by the White Stripes and the Dirtbombs, all have paid homage to the Parliafunkadelicment Thang.

On this album, there is full-on remixes, futuristic creations using the original track as an inspiration, disco-fied re-edits and skeletal dubs. Spearheaded by Brendan Gillen of Interdimensional Transmissions, the set features names working across the musical spectrum. There is an appearance by those most mysterious of techno pioneers Underground Resistance, and by Kenny Dixon Jr and his alter-ego Moodymann. The Dirtbombs throw down a frenetic take on ‘Super Stupid’, whilst disco re-edit expert Gaye Marvine adds his magic to ‘Undisco Kidd’. Other contributors include Funkadelic alumni Amp Fiddler, Marcellus Pittman and Anthony Shake Shakir. This is a worthy celebration by New Detroit of its most twisted and illustrious forebears.