Hydraulic Funk

P Funk All Stars | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Westbound Records Us
• ASIN: B00004ST27
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pumpin' It Up

2. Copycat

3. Hydraulic Pump

4. Generator Pop

5. Acupuncture

6. One of Those Summers

7. Catch a Keeper

8. Generator Pop [Mix]

9. Hydraulic Pump, Pts. 1-2 [12" Mix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An EXCELLENT repackaging..., July 18, 2000

By 

Robby Raeford (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hydraulic Funk (Audio CD)

For those of you that don't know, Hydraulic Funk is a repackaging of Urban Dancefloor Guerillas that replaces the two songs Generator Pop and Hydraulic Pump with their original 12" extended versions. The ones of Urban DG are edited for time reasons. The extended versions are excellent, and are totally essential. The other songs listed are accually just 10-15 second snippets of other songs.

Don't get Urban Dancefloor Guerillas when you can get this one, because this one is the same thing but with more added.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pumpin' It Up!, September 11, 2004

By 

Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hydraulic Funk (Audio CD)

This is the uncut version of the P-Funk All Stars
1983 album 'Urban Dancefloor Gorillas'.For the most part the
best thing about this version is the album cover is MUCH better!
And "Pumpin' It Up" is still stronger.The main problem with the
All Stars:all they really do is jam endlessly and the comic
and absurd elements of Parliament are not present in favor of
the constant repitition of hooks.Musically it's classic P-Funk
but conceptually it falls far short of the Parliament/Funkadelic
masterpieces George Clinton was turning out just three years earlier.For most devoted fans of the Mothership this must sound
like the P-Funk concept at it's absolute lowest ebb.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great 1980's P-funk, January 8, 2010

By 

Fritz Langlois - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hydraulic Funk (Audio CD)

HYDRAULIC FUNK is the original P-FUNK ALLSTARS album. It had first surfaced under the moniker URBAN DANCEFLOOR GUERILLAS, with some missing bits. So this is the real thing here.
In the early eighties, Parliament and Funkadelic were seemingly disbanded; but the core of the band still went on making (great) records, under various names, most notably P-FUNK ALLSTARS and GEORGE CLINTON's "solo" efforts. I can recommend them all, they are a logical continuation of Clinton's concepts. HYDRAULIC FUNK takes the P-funk sound well into the eighties, with highly successful results in my opinion. The tracks are varied and adventurous, not one of them is bad. There is a very unusual (and very good) song by Clinton called "ACUPUNCTURE" with a sax player very unlike Maceo Parker. The usual P-funk suspects are on board, like Bootsy Collins, as well as Clinton friends of ages such as Sly Stone (present also on Clinton's album AND HIS GANGSTERS OF LOVE)and Bobby Womack (also on Clinton and family's HOW LATE DO YOU HAVE 2 B B 4 U R ABSENT?)...
Well, Clinton's inspiration certainly never failed him. The grooves of "COPYCAT" and "CATCH A KEEPER" for example are P-funk masterpieces.
The picture on the cover is amazing.
Great P-funk album.