JAMES BROWN Sex Machine (Original Master
Recording limited edition Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
15-track double album 2-LP mastered by Krieg Wunderlich on
the Gain 2 Ultra Analog System, specially plated and pressed
on 180-gram High-Definition Vinyl at 33RPM. Ranked
by Rolling Stone among the 500 Greatest Albums of
All Time, James Brown's Sex Machine (1970) stands
as one of the most electrifying funk statements ever
committed to tape. Part studio, part live, and entirely
unstoppable, it captures the Godfather of Soul and his bands
at the absolute height of their powers - sweat-soaked, fiery,
and relentlessly rhythmic. With Bootsy and Catfish
Collins anchoring the J.B.'s, plus searing horn lines from
Maceo Parker and company, the album's centerpiece - the
nearly 11-minute "Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex
Machine" - is alone worth the price of admission. Add in the
likes of "Brother Rapp", "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", "I
Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing", and the unstoppable
closer "Mother Popcorn", and this becomes not only James
Brown's most definitive live/studio hybrid, but one of funk's
greatest recorded testaments. Heavyweight gatefold picture
sleeve with original cover artwork, individually gold-foil
numbered & factory sealed)
#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.
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James Brown Sex Machine - Original Master Recording 180 Gram 33RPM - Sealed US 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
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Monster 1970 Double Album Presented in Audiophile Sound for the First Time: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Plays with Explosive Dynamics and Vibrant Immediacy
1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set presents Sex Machine in audiophile sound for the first time. It explodes with the energy the lightning-strike music demands. Dynamic, immediate, present, airy: Everything from the brassiness and fluidity of the horns to the snap and decay of the snare to the swell and carry of the organ comes across in full-range perspective.
Then there’s Brown’s superhuman singing, which here emerges with a purity, naturalism, and transparency that ensure you feel everything. Screeching, shouting, pleading, moaning, preaching, stinging, commanding, testifying, crooning, humming: The Godfather of Soul contributes one of the finest vocal performances known to man. This definitive 55th anniversary reissue of Brown’s monster funk statement further exhibits a combination of clarity, solidity, separation, and imaging that helps bring to light what he and his crack ensembles committed to tape. Both in the studio and on the stage.
Just how lifelike does this reissue sound? Senior Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab engineer Krieg Wunderlich, who handled the remaster, notes: “There were some artifacts that sounded a bit like mistracking. But they turned out to be breath blasts on the vocal microphone. That is part of history. JB was workin' hard, and breathin' hard. And there was an edit the timing of that was truly strange. Again, a part of history.”
Originally marketed as a live album, Sex Machine contains six songs recorded in the studio and later overdubbed with canned crowd noise and reverberation. Save for “Low Down Popcorn,” the tracks on the latter half stem from a phenomenal performance captured in October 1969 at Bell Auditorium in Brown’s adopted hometown of Augusta, GA. The special relationship between the singer, the audience, and the location is palpable.
As the 1960s gave way to a new decade, Brown experienced immense success and dealt with unexpected change. Soul Brother Number One soon expanded his idea for an official live album captured in Augusta when the ensemble that backed him on that date morphed into the original version of the world-famous J.B.’s just months after the show. The virtuosic abilities, sticky chemistry, and rhythm-forward nature of the J.B.’s prompted him to book a one-off session in Cincinnati, OH, on a late July night.
Anchored by brothers William “Bootsy” Collins and Phelps “Catfish” Collins, the group — as well as two different drummers — laid down a nearly 11-minute rendition of “Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine” and a thrilling medley of “Bewildered,” “I Got the Feeling,” and “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose.” A pair of then-recent studio singles cut in separate locations in 1969, “Brother Rapp” and “Low Down Popcorn,” each featuring his prior group, took care of the second LP worth of material that complements the originally planned live set.
Complicated? Somewhat. Unusual? Definitely. But just as he elevated the expectations for all present and future R&B artists, Brown not only makes it all work. He makes it positively electrifying.
“Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine” is alone deserving of a dissertation on the art of funk music, seeing it moves up and down akin to an oil derrick, witnesses Brown unleashing a trademark series of grunts, squeaks, and “good god” asides, and glides to a hypnotic groove that won’t quit. Or look to the syncopated rhythms of “Brother Rapp (Part I and Part II),” one of multiple pieces here that signify the point where Brown began viewing every instrument as a percussive tool. Brown closes the three-song medley with his new band with a skedaddling “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose,” which provides jolts on the order of sticking your finger into a socket.
Not that the actual live material falls short in any way. Setting an insistent tempo for the vitality that follows, “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing” positions Brown as a role model, leader, and self-sufficient entrepreneur. All simmer and boil, the short and sweet “Licking Stick” dares you to keep pace. The floating, almost comforting “Spinning Wheel” spotlights the instrumental prowess of Maceo Parker and company, and functions as a seamless segue into the tender, horn-saluted “If I Ruled the World.”
And Brown and his mates still aren’t done. Just try to resist the one-two closing punch of “I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)” and “Mother Popcorn.” Mercy.
Ain’t it funky? Sure ‘nuff.
Side One
1. Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine
2. Brother Rapp (Part I and Part II)
Side Two
1. Bewildered
2. I Got the Feeling
3. Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
Side Three
1. I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
2. Licking Stick
3. Low Down Popcorn
4. Spinning Whee
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Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
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In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Wednesday 17th December
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| Year of Release: |
2025 |
| Artist: |
James Brown (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Sex Machine (click here for more of the same title) |
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2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album) |
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| Record Label: |
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab |
| Catalogue No: |
MFSL2-591 |
| Country of Origin: |
USA
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
Unconfirmed
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JMB2LSE875814 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
821797259118 |
| Genres: |
Funk, Male Solo, Soul and r&b
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| Related Artists: |
A.A.B.B., Anna King, Bobby Byrd, Fred Wesley, Lyn Collins, Maceo & The Macks, Marva Whitney, Sweet Charles, The First Family, The J.B.'s |
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 stands
as one of the most electrifying funk statements ever
committed to tape. Part studio, part live, and entirely
unstoppable, it captures the Godfather of Soul and his bands
at the absolute height of their powers - sweat-soaked, fiery,
and relentlessly rhythmic. With <B>Bootsy and Catfish
Collins</B> anchoring the J.B.'s, plus searing horn lines from
Maceo Parker and company, the album's centerpiece - the
nearly 11-minute "Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex
Machine" - is alone worth the price of admission. Add in the
likes of "Brother Rapp", "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose", "I
Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing", and the unstoppable
closer "Mother Popcorn", and this becomes not only James
Brown's most definitive live/studio hybrid, but one of funk's
greatest recorded testaments. Heavyweight gatefold picture
sleeve with original cover artwork, individually gold-foil
numbered & factory sealed) <BR><B>#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time</B>)
