Get Connected!
Parliament - Mothership Connection [CAL 2013 UK 1977 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] It took a while to decide who would get the honour of being the final post of 2022, so after some deliberation, following a year where we lost and possibly found a few icons, here is some George Clinton (I checked, he is still with us), Bootsy, Bernie and friends with their space-funk, p-funk classic Mothership Connection. I bought this album back in around 1985/86 from Collectors Records in Guildford, Surrey. This is the second UK pressing of an album first released on Casablanca Records in 1975 and it cost about a fiver then - it is worth a bit more these days. Unplayed for many a decade, it required two deep cleans in a Tergikleen solution before three full cycles in my ultrasonic cleaner. Apart from a small amount of groove wear, I hope the results speak for themselves. Pops and clicks were removed manually (there were a few) with Izotope, I've kept the volume levels comfortably below -1db, which combi...