But when you do both, and mix them, like Parliament-Funkadelic—Parliament was soft, and Funkadelic was hardcore.
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And, therefore, the walls are hung with many posters advertising shows by George Clinton's Funkadelic and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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With Parliament Funkadelic, an umbrella for the slew of musicians spinning through his orbit — who also make up two discrete sister groups, Parliament and Funkadelic — Clinton has departed on a "One Nation Under a Groove" farewell tour, named for the 1978 Funkadelic album that marked their commercial breakthrough.
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From there, he moved to Detroit to join George Clinton's doo-wop group, The Parliaments, and their backing band, Funkadelic, which would then be collectively known as Parliament-Funkadelic.
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There was the [Funkadelic] video with Kendrick and Ice Cube.
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George Clinton and his band Funkadelic most definitely are camp.
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GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC at Rumsey Playfield (June 4, 6 p.m.).
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In the last couple of years we've had the new Funkadelic album.
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Parliament-Funkadelic and many spinoffs made dozens of albums in the '70s.
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Together, they sound like a mutant hybrid of Butthole Surfers and Funkadelic.
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A different audience knew another of his designs: the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership.
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Without him, there's no Parliament Funkadelic, which means, go on down the line.
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Word is you'll hear strong influences from seminal funk group Parliament and Funkadelic.
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In 1997, Worrell was inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Afrofuturism is equally at home with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Parliament-Funkadelic.
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I remember the diverse cast, funky choreography, John Guare lyrics and motley funkadelic costumes.
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Parliament and Funkadelic were bands that, more than making amazing music, created a utopia.
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Mr. Morrison entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 22004 with Parliament-Funkadelic.
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But I was next-door neighbors with Garry Shider, the bass player of Parliament-Funkadelic.
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In 1997, Prince inducted Parliament and Funkadelic into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The music has followed suit, from Yo Gotti and Kodak Black to Bill Withers and Funkadelic.
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My pop used to smoke weed and listen to records, like jazz records and Funkadelic records.
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Mr. Worrell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997.
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I decided to set about asking peers and colleagues what they made of the funkadelic hat-stand.
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I knew Sylvester, and I knew The Gap Band, and I knew all the members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
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As the 11s passed into the 2225s, "Funky Worm" wail and Parliament-Funkadelic samples went out of vogue.
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Funk legend George Clinton (of Parliament and Funkadelic) will work with Flying Lotus on his next studio album.
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The Parliaments had moved to Detroit and were becoming two intertwined acts, Parliament and Funkadelic, recording for different labels.
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Though the split personality of Parliament and Funkadelic evolved from contractual complications, it laid bare the importance of personae.
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Mr. Morrison was an architect of hits by the Ohio Players and Parliament-Funkadelic, pre-eminent 21990s funk outfits.
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Talking Heads swelled to a nine-piece for live dates during the 80s, including Parliament-Funkadelic keyboard player Bernie Worrell.
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Then there's his unconventional collaboration with Funkadelic, whose single "Ain't That Funkin Kinda Hard on You" he remixed for the album.
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Might as well pop some phat wheelies with a mob of bicycles set to a funkadelic rhythm with Royal Canoe and Begnonia.
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While receiving wide praise, the album has been accused of being a glorified cover of artists like George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
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The new Childish Gambino album is absolute soul and funkadelic goodness, highly recommend this one, donald reinvented himself for the better pic.twitter.
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"When these guys from the Ohio Players to Parliament-Funkadelic were just jamming, that's where the songs came from," Mr. Jolicoeur said.
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My favorite scene is the one where I'm stuck in rush-hour traffic on the Harbor freeway with the Funkadelic going on.
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Once, before a show, he decided to say hello to the members of Parliament-Funkadelic, whose dressing room was down the hall.
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George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr., a founding member and iconic keyboardist of Parliament-Funkadelic, has died following a battle with lung cancer.
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Clinton: One of them is the title track of the First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate album by Funkadelic, which was three CDs.
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As part of Parliament-Funkadelic, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, with a speech from Prince.
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Other notable objects include the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership, a giant Sam Cooke banner, and the sign from the Harlem jazz club Minton's Playhouse.
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" Favorite '80s act "I love Prince, but my go-to is Funkadelic, which is '70s, and Jimi Hendrix, and then '90s hip-hop.
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His synth lines also became the blueprint for Dr. Dre's iconic 90s G-Funk rap sound, which drew heavily on Parliament and Funkadelic samples.
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Mr. Clinton brought in Mr. Worrell as the keyboardist, bandleader and arranger, starting with the debut albums both Funkadelic and Parliament released in 1970.
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More than a hundred and seventy people have played in Funkadelic and its alter-ego band, Parliament, commonly referred to together as P-Funk.
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The 75-year-old founded legendary funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic in the early 1970s, but his gaze was already situated on the far future.
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George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic will play Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens on June 11, along with Main Source and DJ Marley Marl.
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The Bomb Cosmetics Funkadelic handmade gift pack is reduced to £9.94, and the Sanctuary Spa ultimate travel selection Christmas gift has dropped to only £12.49.
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"I hear nuance in Parliament-Funkadelic, and I hear nuance in hip-hop," says Berklee College professor and "punk-funk" generation member Prince Charles Alexander.
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At the time, Funkadelic was basically a psychedelic-rock band that took apart soul ballads, and its heavy, sprawling jams felt like an endurance test.
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In the early seventies, Funkadelic fell in with the Detroit rock scene, matching the wailing anarchy of proto-punk acts like the MC5 and the Stooges.
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In the eighties, as the members of Parliament and Funkadelic were stuck in a limbo of bad contracts and bruised egos, Clinton pursued a solo career.
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The fashion gang watched the black cars and the accompanying vehicles, and then filed upstairs to discover — George Clinton, the Parliament Funkadelic founder, sitting front row.
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" At first, there was no better thesis statement for the woolly, acid-assisted music of early Funkadelic than the title of its 1970 album "Free Your Mind . . .
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Until nine years ago, though, he patrolled the fictional city of Freeland, wearing a space-age electro-suit that one observer likens to a Parliament-Funkadelic outfit.
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Determined to save Larry LeGaspi, the designer behind the look of Parliament Funkadelic and Kiss, from obscurity, Rick Owens had no choice but to write a book.
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The 2017 edition featured Prince-affiliated acts like the Time, the Revolution, New Power Generation, and 3RDEYEGIRL, as well as a performance from George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
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In the mid-seventies, George Clinton and his band Funkadelic were working on a new song, "Get Off Your Ass and Jam," at a studio in Los Angeles.
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"Awaken, My Love!" from its spacey, provocative album cover to the last song is pure Funkadelic cosplay, an attempt to adapt Maggot Brain for the social media age.
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Her "Angel of the Morning" was climbing the charts when the label Cameo-Parkway went bankrupt (the label's president Neil Bogert then founded Casablanca Records, behind Kiss and Funkadelic).
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Alma Thomas's "Mars Dust" (1972) arose from her deep interest in space exploration but resonates with the galactic orientation of Afrofuturism, as exemplified by Sun Ra or Parliament-Funkadelic.
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The Temptations play their part as well, enjoying a hit with "Psychedelic Shack" in 1970, as does George Clinton, whose Parliament-Funkadelic will carry the sound into the 1980s.
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Few active artists can claim to have had as much of an impact on pop music today as George Clinton, the maestro of the seminal funk collective Parliament Funkadelic.
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As part of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective, he contributed to countless funk classics, forwarding the popular use of synthesizers and helping to craft a 70s sound that remains definitive.
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As evidenced by this premiere below, the British singer—born Marcus Foster—embraces of squelchy funkadelic kind of pop with a pinch of soul and a dollop of R&B.
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Last year, a remix compilation called "Funkadelic Reworked by Detroiters" allowed such dance producers as Moodymann and Underground Resistance to show gratitude to their forebears for all those transcendent rhythms.
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Keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell, a founding member of Parliament Funkadelic and frequent Talking Heads collaborator, is currently battling cancer, but will be getting some help with his bills from fellow musicians.
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Among those being honored are Iglesias, Black Sabbath, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Sam & Dave, Dionne Warwick, Ashford & Simpson and Johnny Mandel as well as late singers Billy Eckstine and Donny Hathaway.
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Business disputes led Mr. Worrell to leave Parliament-Funkadelic as the 1970s ended, though in later years he collaborated with various P-Funk associates, including Mr. Clinton's P-Funk All-Stars.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernie Worrell, the keyboardist and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic known as the "Wizard of Woo," died on Friday at the age of 72, according to his website.
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Clinton realized that you could play soul and gospel music at the sludgy pace of heavy rock, and he rebranded the Parliaments—who were stuck in a messy contract dispute—as Funkadelic.
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Bernie Worrell, the keyboardist whose anarchic solos and Moog synthesizer bass lines with Parliament-Funkadelic indelibly changed the sound of funk and hip-hop, died on Friday at his home in Everson, Wash.
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It finds expression in the novels of Octavia Butler, the music of Parliament Funkadelic (and accompanying album artwork by Pedro Bell, who died yesterday), and contemporary art by Lauren Halsey and Frohawk Two Feathers.
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George Clinton — the leader of Funkadelic, Parliament, the P-Funk All-Stars and countless other associated projects, and the architect of beats that echo throughout hip-hop — has been anything but silent since 1980.
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" George Clinton, the leader of Parliament-Funkadelic, described Mr. Morrison as "phenomenal" and wrote in his memoir, published in 22000, that Mr. Morrison "could do it all, and if you weren't careful, he would.
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It owes a debt as well to the music of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, with their prophetic lyrics in "Mothership Connection": Time to move on Light years in time Ahead of our time.
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In the film, interviews with the likes of acclaimed record producer Rob Cavallo and Juicy J describe the importance of Peep's sonic legacy, with Cavallo comparing his techniques to the likes Prince and Parliament Funkadelic.
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Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Jacksons, Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, The O'Jays -- these and many other black musicians assumed mainstream prominence and affected the course of pop music for decades to come.
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The Minimoog Model D was used to establish the funk sound of George Clinton's band Parliament Funkadelic, and on iconic recordings like Bob Marley's Catch A Fire, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and Dr. Dre's The Chronic.
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Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic playing brief, spur-of-the-moment Minimoog solos for a few dozen people in the pop-up factory, bending notes and tones through familiar P-Funk basslines and stray thoughts.
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The title of the song is inspired by a Parliament Funkadelic audience chant, which drummer Chris Frantz was yelling around the studio before Byrne decided to use a modified version for the name of the song.
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He threw splashes of grease into James Brown's music as a prominent soloist in that band for most of the 230s, then moved on to the subversive, psychedelic funk of Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton's ensembles.
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George Clinton, whose funk outfit Parliament Funkadelic was one of the most well-known musical acts of the late 19933th century, had to stage a protracted legal fight to win back the rights to his master recordings.
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Today, George Clinton and Funkadelic dropped the video for the track,which is a strange, futuristic cyber-funk never-ending party that sails through UFOs, high-tech super cities, and George Clinton in some pretty ridiculous outfits.
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He and his wife, Judie Worrell, had long contended that he did not receive what he had earned for the songs he wrote in Parliament-Funkadelic and for their later use as samples in hip-hop songs.
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There's another Mothership on view for the opening, too, this one a 1,200-pound aluminum stage prop with flashing lights once used in the 1990s by the Afro-Futurist musician George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic band.
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Its heavy use of Funkadelic and Sly Stone instrumentation, Bootsy's wobbly singing style, and high-pitched Prince wails are in service to the love, hopefulness, and, of course, fears about bringing a new life into the world.
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The video was a wonderful ode to the decadence of the decade and the trio looked the part of a funkadelic band, but according to Migos' stylist, Zoe Costello, there wasn't time for vision boards and custom looks.
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According to the liner notes of old Parliament-Funkadelic records, Starchild is a sort of god alien sent to connect Earth-bound peons to the mothership up above—to deliver a tether to the sound of the cosmos.
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The music directly recalls the 1970s R&B before hip-hop — the era of Parliament-Funkadelic; Earth, Wind & Fire; Stevie Wonder; the Spinners; the Chi-Lites; the Ohio Players; late Sly and the Family Stone; and early Prince.
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In "Funkedified," the hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris pays tribute to the dance parties of his nineteen-seventies Philadelphia youth and their funk-music soundtrack, a bass-and-downbeat-heavy mix of James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Dennis Coffey.
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Both of our grandfathers found themselves playing with legendary musical figures early in their lives; Smino's granddad played bass guitar for blues musician Muddy Waters and mine served as the drummer for two tours with George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic.
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For Soul Clap's latest project, Goldstein and Levine brought in several artists from the Clinton camp—R&B vocal legend Nona Hendryx and Funkadelic bassist Billy "Bass" Nelson among them—to appear alongside frequent collaborators including Nick Monaco and Wolf + Lamb.
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Each song feels like a digital age take on something old school: the vibe of hearing Sly & the Family Stone or Funkadelic at a backyard barbecue is there, as the bones that make up the sound structure on Hive Mind.
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His Grammy-nominated 2016 album, Louie Vega Starring...XXVIII, featured special guests on all 28 tracks, including Funkadelic, Soul Clap, Adeva and, most inspired, the combining of gospel groups 3 Winans Brothers and The Clark Sisters for the first time.
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Influential West Coast label Brainfeeder has announced the impressive lineup for their September 17 show at the Hollywood Bowl, which includes label founder Flying Lotus, alongside psychedelic funk godfather George Clinton (with Parliament Funkadelic), Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, and The Gaslamp Killer.
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A longtime member of Funkadelic and its companion band Parliament, Worrell was diagnosed with both prostate and liver cancer this past January, and his health had declined significantly in recent weeks according to posts on his Facebook page from his wife Judie.
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As teenagers, the current generation of rappers drew more inspiration from their peers than they did G-funk, the melodic and biting gangster rap subgenre which borrowed musical cues from Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Second Amendment stances from Oliver North.
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Bernie Worrell's 1978 debut solo album, "All the Woo in the World," was both a declaration of independence and a pledge of allegiance, building on the same sonically intrepid, unsinkably grooving style he had honed as the influential keyboardist in Parliament-Funkadelic.
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"There was all this blackness bursting out everywhere, with dashikis and dancing and the mother ship coming down to get you," she said, referring to the Apollo-inspired stage prop used to represent Afrofuturism by George Clinton, frontman of the band Parliament-Funkadelic.
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It gave me the education I would need to open up my own agency and represent Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band, The Runaways, and several other acts, and then become a manager for George Clinton, Vanilla Fudge, Living Colour, and Sheila E. after that.
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The influence of George Clinton's P-Funk galaxy of Parliament and Funkadelic is so vast that it needs no more ink to be spilled about it, so maybe the best case for their continued relevance is to see them outperform many of their followers.
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Long interested in Parliament Funkadelic musicians who appropriated Egyptian archetypes into their cosmologies, she was seeing vendors on 125th Street selling scale models of Pharaonic architecture and then visiting the Metropolitan Museum to view actual ruins from ancient Egypt covered with paintings and reliefs.
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When Parliament-Funkadelic, George Clinton's sartorially adventurous music collective, played arena shows in the 1970s, the boisterous crowds would reach a fever pitch midway through the concert when a fire-spitting flying saucer descended from the rafters, landing onstage amid smoke and blaring horns.
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Strains of afrofuturism can be found in the works of sci-fi author Octavia Butler, the music of free-jazz icon Sun Ra and funk legends Parliament-Funkadelic, the art of Lauren Halsey and Ellen Gallagher, and in Black Panther's technotopian homeland of Wakanda.
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A child prodigy who studied classical piano starting at age 3, Worrell rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of George Clinton's funk and soul collective Parliament-Funkadelic, co-writing and performing numerous hits that would have heavy influence on disco and R&B music.
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Other Rift-only software features are migrating over to Home on Gear VR with the new update; Oculus Avatars, which allows users to heavily customize a funkadelic futuristic avatar to use in a variety of titles including Oculus Rooms, Hulu, vTime and others, has made it to mobile.
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SummerStage is similarly international and cross-generational, bringing the psychedelic legends George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, on their farewell tour (Central Park, June 4), the Colombian rock band Aterciopelados (Queensbridge Park, July 11), and the long-running folk-rock outfit the Mountain Goats (East River Park, Aug. 10).
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Sold originally at Moonstone, a small boutique in downtown Manhattan, LeGaspi's designs were eventually adopted by some of the defining musical acts of the era, first as stage wear by the all-female group Labelle at their hit-making peak and afterward by Grace Jones, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.
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The singer Alexis Krauss, who once fronted a teen girl group, and her partner Derek Miller, a former hardcore guitarist, smashed together sounds sourced from disparate genres, producing unexpected pairings like jangly Funkadelic samples with sing-songy vocals ("Rill Rill") and distorted, punk-inflected guitar with cheerleader chants ("Infinity Guitars").
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The "cosmic" evolves, by mid-century, into psychedelic album covers by the Dutch design collective The Fool and the British design team Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (including a 19953 album by Fats Domino), as well as a selection of Funkadelic album covers from 21995 to 217, designed by Pedro Bell.
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People my age will never be able to experience the transformative, groundbreaking live shows that acts such as Pink Floyd, Prince, or Funkadelic delivered in their primes, but watching a non-existent, nausea-inducing anime teen definitely feels like a step forward into a bold new direction that's at least as improbable as Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire.
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When he wasn't DJ-ing, Clayton was a tireless, ambitious promoter with a keen eye for talent; members of his Army (named for the Funkadelic album Uncle Jam Wants You) included Egyptian Lover, future N.W.A. member Arabian Prince, DJ Bobcat (who'd go on to work with Def Jam), co-writer of Friday and prolific producer DJ Pooh, and a pre-gangster rap Ice-T.
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J. Amar - "In Her Mouf (Rated XXX)"Ben Mays - "Rated X (Jungle Mix)"Funkadelic - "No Compute (alias Spit Don't Make No Babies)"Red Foxx - "Ugly Girls in NY"Zyn - "Talk 2 Me (Dirty)"20 Fingers - "Short Dick Man (Bass Mix)"LaTour - "People Are Still Having Sex (Ralphi's Orgasmic Mix)"Blake Baxter - "Hot For U"Tapp - "Blow It Up (XXX Dirty Version)"Eva Nova - "Nasty Girl (Lets Get Nasty) "Pablo Toto - "I Won't Come in Your Mouth"
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Hendrix also never got to enjoy the way his unique collision of sci-fi, sonic technology, and the blues-derived form of rock 'n' roll helped inform Afrofuturism; he may not have played a central role in that movement as did artists such as Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic—mostly because his career was cut short before he could fully develop his singular fusion of Black music and science fiction—but his alchemy of myth, technology, and eschatology stands as a milestone in Afrofuturist evolution.
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