Now we’re talking! The restored and remastered Free Your Mind from Org Music is up for preorder. Dave Gardner & Catherine Vericolli certified! Been waiting for this for some time now. Release date May 1. It’s also up on hhv and juno.
There’s a 2LP 45RPM version with a tip-on gatefold, just like they did with the release of the first album. But for Free Your Mind, all vinyl variants are all analog. So that’s cool.
As usual there’s a bunch of variants.
The ‘In’ Groove has also a variant of the single disc version. But it’s not a color variant, instead it got a nicer jacket (high-gloss tip-on gatefold).
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Welcome to the forum @Funkentelechy!
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I am so excited about this series, do you think they will do all the westbound albums? also i wonder how they tracklisted FYMAYAWF as a double LP? it’s such a short album and only 6 songs
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I really hope they’ll do every album, but so far they only mentioned Maggot Brain. Free Your Mind and Maggot Brain was mastered at the same time.
A 2LP-set for around 31 minutes is a little bit crazy. Maybe/hopefully the sound quality will even better (if you’re able to hear the difference 
). I’m wondering about the track listing as well. Here’s a guess.
A1 Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow 10:00
B1 Friday Night August 14th 5:20
B1 Funky Dollar Bill 3:14
C1 I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You 5:54
D1 Some More 2:55
D2 Eulogy And Light 3:29
But then you only have around 6 minutes on side C and 6:30 on side D. That’s crazy.
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I couldn’t justify getting the 2xLP version for this one as easily as I could with the debut so I went with the In Groove variant for the nicer jacket. Looking forward to Maggot Brain.
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It is crazy! I am glad I picked up the double LP reissue of the self-titled album, as it was a bit long for a single LP in terms of sound quality. I’ll likely pre-order the single LP version of this remaster
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I am just praying the series at least gets to Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On, as that’s my favorite P-Funk album. Also the digital version of America Eats Its Young that’s on streaming sounds terrible, so that desperately needs a remaster so I’m hoping for that too lol. If I posted this in the wrong topic, someone please direct me to the proper one lol
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So I ordered the 2LP version, just too curious how it sounds. But now I’m thinking of getting the In Groove one . Maybe I’ll just keep that one, don’t know.
The owner of the In Groove, Mike Esposito, said he received a test pressing (I suppose the single disc one) and compared it to an original. He said the test pressing sounded awesome. 
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