JAMES BROWN Sex Machine (2025 limited edition Mobile
Fidelity Sound Lab 15-track audiophile DSD remastered
Ultradisc UHR™ Super Audio CD mastered from the
original tapes. This hybrid SACD presents James Borwn's
monster 1970 album in audiophile sound for the first time:
Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition Hybrid SACD plays with
explosive dynamics and vibrant clarity. Ranked by Rolling
Stone among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,
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.
Individually gold-foil numbered replica LP-style gatefold
picture sleeve, metallic hype sticker & factory sealed.
Recommended)
#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.
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James Brown Sex Machine - Super Audio CD - Sealed US super audio CD SACD
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
James Brown wants to know one thing before he and his band begin Sex Machine. “Can I get into the thing, really?,” he asks. His cohorts enthusiastically respond in the affirmative. And for the next hour and change, Mr. Dynamite gets into it and more, turning in a sweat-soaked, feet-moving, hip-swiveling, emotion-purging, in-the-red, drop-everything-you’re-doing-and-dance performance for the ages. Ranked by Rolling Stone among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the sweeping 1970 effort towers as a testament to Brown’s inimitable legacy as well as the peak powers of his voice, vibrancy, and bands.
Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD 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 special 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.
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.
1. Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine
2. Brother Rapp (Part I & Part II)
3. Bewildered
4. I Got the Feeling
5. Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
6. I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
7. Licking Stick
8. Lowdown Popcorn 9.Spinning Wheel
9. If I Ruled the World
10. There Was a Time
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
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In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Monday 5th January
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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) |
| Price: |
£ 49.99, US$ 67.49
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| Format: |
super audio CD SACD |
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| Record Label: |
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab |
| Catalogue No: |
UDSACD2295 |
| 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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| EIL.COM Ref No |
JMBSASE879593 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
821797229562 |
| 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 |
| Complete Stock List: |
James Brown |
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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.
Individually gold-foil numbered replica LP-style gatefold
picture sleeve, metallic hype sticker & factory sealed.
Recommended) <BR><B>#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time</B>)
