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Mothership Connection is a Funk act. Their sound grew out of James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Mothership Connection arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Dr. Dre, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 2 connections around Mothership Connection, reaching back through James Brown and forward to Dr. Dre. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975, on Casablanca Records. This concept album is often rated among the best Parliament-Funkadelic releases, and was the first to feature horn players Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, previously of James Brown's backing band the J.B.'s.
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Mothership Connection grew out of James Brown, went on to shape Dr. Dre. 2 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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