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Re: 03-10-2025 (C 1975)
Get Funked Up with Mothership Connection: Cosmic Parliament Record Ranked the 363rd Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, Includes “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)”
Mobile Fidelity Presents the 1975 Funk Milestone in Audiophile Sound for Its 50th Anniversary: 180g 45RPM 2LP Plays with Intoxicating Definition, Immediacy, and Clarity
Record One, Sides One/Two: 1/4” 30 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console
Record Two, Sides Three/Four: 1/4” 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console
The instruction that begins Parliament’s Mothership Connection prepares you for an ecstatic journey and establishes the setting for a cosmic trip into galaxies populated with galactic grooves, joyous vibes, cheeky humor, streetwise slang. This is nearly 39 minutes of some of the best, sweatiest, most enthusiastic funk devised — all laid down by an all-star band responsible for what Rolling Stone named the 363rd Greatest Album of All Time.
Sourced from the original analog master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP presents Mothership Connection in audiophile sound for the first time. Marking its debut on 45RPM, Parliament’s benchmark benefits from the wide groove space by playing with tauter bass, enhanced definition, and more realistic presence than prior editions. Everything from the brassiness of the horns to the crisp slap of the snare to the fleshy snap of handclaps comes across in full-range perspective.
A perfect storm of creativity, chemistry, and composition overseen by leader George Clinton, the platinum-certified Mothership Connection ties together Parliament’s then-burgeoning blend of bulbous funk, psychedelic soul, rule-breaking rock, science-fiction fantasy, and Afrofuturism themes. The group’s first effort to feature the virtuoso horn tandem of Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley — fresh from an extensive stint with James Brown’s J.B.’s — it spawned three iconic singles, received entry into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, and proved a massive influence on the early and mid-90s West Coast hip-hop movement that swept through popular culture.
Tracklist:
- A1 P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
- B1 Mothership Connection (Star Child)
- B2 Unfunky UFO
- C1 Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
- C2 Handcuffs
- D1Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker
- Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples
Location: FUNKADELIC (psych Rock section) and MOFI section
