Psychedelic soul
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Psychedelic soul is a concept used to categorize music that features elements of psychedelic rock and soul/funk music. This kind of music thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Psychedelic soul is often connected to artists such as Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic though the former's 1970s output is also often described simply as funk and the latter's music is often called funk-rock. However, they both took clear influences from psychedelic rock. Others, most notably The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, War, The Undisputed Truth, and The Fifth Dimension, followed the path laid out by the work of Sly Stone and his band. Psychedelic soul led the way for a harder, less subdued sound to permeate through black music, leading the way for the mainstream funk music of the early 1970s and later, disco.
An important band in this regard is Funkadelic, lead by George Clinton. Funkadelic mixed the soul and funk of the late 1960s and early 1970s with extended distorted guitar solos and psychedelic sound effects. Further, they coupled this sound with surreal imagery and stage antics, especially on early albums such as Funkadelic (1970), Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow (1970), and Maggot Brain (1971).
Minnie Riperton and the Rotary Connection's cover of "Respect" is also an example of psychedelic soul.
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