James Brown - Sex Machine - Hybrid SACD/Individually Numbered - CD

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-thered, 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. Despite involving multiple groups and both studio and onstage recording locations, Brown not only makes it all work. He makes it positively electrifying.

Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LPstyle 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. 

Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine
Brother Rapp (Part I & Part II)
Bewildered
I Got the Feeling
Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
Licking Stick
Lowdown Popcorn 9.Spinning Wheel
If I Ruled the World
There Was a Time
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
Please, Please, Please
I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
Mother Popcorn