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  Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You [CHLP3371 UK 2023 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Originally released on Warner Brothers Records in 1979. Here is the next installment from the recent Charly Records Funkadelic reissue campaign. All have been cut from Pete Reynold's digital remasters by Barry Grint, pressed at GZ Media and wrapped in high-spec reproduction gatefold sleeves. The sleeve features Doctor Funkenstein himself in full Black Panthers pose and the album features all the usual P-Funk allstars, Bernie (U.S.S. Woo!) Worrell, Bootsy Collins, Gary "DoWop" Shider, Larry "Sir Nose" Heckstall, Larry Fratangelo, Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton, Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel, plus of course Uncle Jam Clinton aka Dr Funkenstein. A1 Freak Of The Week A2 (Not Just) Knee Deep B1 Uncle Jam B2 Field Maneuvers B3 Holly Wants To Go To California B4 Foot Soldiers (Star-Spangled Funky)

  Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove [CHLP3209C 2LP UK 2023 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Originally released on Warner Brothers Records in 1978. I'm guessing many of you will be all over this! Charly Records have held the license for most of the Funkadelic albums since the nineties and this most recent release is a double 33rpm edition, newly remastered from tape to digital by Peter Reynolds and then cut by Barry Grint at Air Mastering. The tracks originally on a bonus seven-inch single are now on a 33rpm second album, backed with the rarer disco mix of  One Nation Under A Groove . I've owned many copies of this record over the years and this is easily the best sounding. Barry Grint is quickly gaining a great reputation these days as one of the best vinyl lacquer cutters - it is somewhat pleasing to see a British engineer proving that it is not just about Bernie Grundman, Ryan Smith & Kevin Grey, when it comes to quality vinyl product.  This release is lushly packaged i...

  Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HIQLP 2 096 UK 2023 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Funkadelic's psyche-funk-rock masterpiece has recently been re-cut from the original master tape (likely with a digital step along the way of course) for this new double vinyl edition on Westbound Records, who are now owned by Ace Records these days.  It is almost impossible to find minty-clean originals of this album at a reasonable price these days, and given the large number of dodgy reissues in recent years, we should at least be grateful that George Clinton allowed the master tape to be run through once more.  This album is of course, all about the title track and its ten minutes of screeching spaced-out psychedelia. Allegedly recorded in one take under the influence of LSD with guitarist Eddie Hazel playing, quite literally, out of his skin. Funkier numbers such as  You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks and Hit It & Quit It were singles and have been sampled to death over the decades. S...