I’m sure some of you have heard that Org Music is about to reissue the first Funkadelic album. A double 45 RPM analog cut! There’s gonna be a lot of side turning going on 
. Org Music has made some quality releases lately and I believe Dave Gardner mastered it, so I’m sure the sound will be awesome.
There’s been talk about the Funkadelic albums ever since they started releasing the Westbound stuff. Just like @elbitsz mentioned a while back. Org Music hasn’t made any official statement yet, so there’s not much info about it, but the test pressings have already been made. So it shouldn’t be to long. If I understood correctly there will also be a regular single disc version as well.
Catherine Vericolli, that’s been involved in restoring/archiving the Westbound catalog, made a really great interview over at Tracking Angle last week where she talks about it. There’s a lot about archiving/tape restoration/mastering and that kind of stuff in the interview, so if you’re into that you should definitely check it out. But they also talk about the Westbound master tapes. And it’s up on yt as well, if you want to watch/listen instead.
This is what she said about the Funkadelic release:
Catherine Vericolli: There are some really incredible things upcoming with Funkadelic specifically, but we’re doing all analog cuts. They’re 45s, 45 RPM.
Evan Toth: Oh, really?
Catherine: We are doing a double 45, all analog, direct-to-lathe, tape-to-lathe cut of, at least, Funkadelic - Funkadelic, the first one. I just got the test presses. We were the most concerned about this because it’s the first one we’ve done and we have more upcoming for Funkadelic.
Evan: Funkadelic, right. You must have grabbed them all, I’m sure.
Catherine: There’s too many. What I can say is we’re going to do the ones that we should do. They’ll also be a regular single-disc LP release as well. The 45 test presses sound insane. They just sound so incredible. They don’t sound new…
Evan: They sound right.
Catherine: They sound what they’re supposed to sound like. I’m super, super excited about that and I hope that everybody else is too. I know the Steve Hoffman guys have really gotten wild on the forums about whether or not we’re going to release Funkadelic. Obviously we’re going to release some Funkadelic.
There was a lot of buildup around, are we going to be able to pull this off? We did tape copies. There’s a potential, I don’t know, but there might be some liner notes, some technical liner notes that will go in, which will have some of this information on it. Like, here’s how we did this.
Evan: Maggot Brain on a two-disc, 45 RPM release?
Catherine: That I cannot confirm. The only one that I can confirm is Funkadelic. I don’t have a release date though.
Here’s two images of some of the tapes.
And here’s a promotion video, that Org Music made for their first Westbound comp, where you see a lot of cool tapes.
Hopefully/probably some more awesome stuff will be released later on. Probably a good reissue of Maggot Brain. But what I would really like is something like Toys 2. Or do I dare to say a live show from 1970..
I wonder if Clinton’s lawsuit will effect any upcoming releases..
for this.
