Artist	Song
Parliament	Mothership Connection (Star Child)
from Mothership Connection (1990)
Funkadelic	Cosmic Slop
from Cosmic Slop (2005)
Stevie Wonder	Higher Ground
from Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (2000)
Billy Preston	Outa-Space
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Preston (2002)
Bootsy Collins	Bootzilla
from Back In the Day: The Best of Bootsy (2007)
Earth, Wind & Fire	Mighty Mighty
from The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire (2002)
Lakeside	Fantastic Voyage
from Lakeside: Greatest Hits (1984)
Deodato	Also Sprach Zarathustra
from Prelude (1993)
The Isley Brothers	Voyage to Atlantis
from The Essential Isley Brothers (2004)
George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars	T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (Fly Away)
from T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership) (1996)
Andy Bey	Celestial Blues
from Experience and Judgment (2005)
Slave	Stellar Fungk
from From the Archives (2008)
Cameo	Alligator Woman/Secrets of Time
from Cameo: Anthology (2002)
Parliament	Theme from the Black Hole
from Gloryhallastoopid (2005)
Sun Ra	Intergalactic Motion
from Calling Planet Earth (2006)
Manzel	Space Funk (Dopebrother 12 Inch Remix)
from Midnight Theme (2006)
Ohio Players	Dimensions In Time
from Pleasure (2007)
Bernie Worrell	Vision
from Blacktronic Science (2006)
Material	Words of Advice
from Hallucination Engine (1994)
The Brothers Johnson	Ride-O-Rocket
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Brothers Johnson (2000)
Praxis	The Interworld and the New Innocence
from Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) (1992)
Buckethead	The Android of Notre Dame
from Kaleidoscalp (2005)

Comment:

Soul's old myths, like the sacred train to Jordan, seemed as out of date as zoot suits and conked hair, so funk's finest invented their own. A jumble of pharaohs, pyramids, and Nubian queens materialized, colliding with space-age, galaxy-traveling motherships in a mind-blowing flash of retro-future mysticism. Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" preaches a boogie-filled prophecy of reincarnation over a wah-wah-washed keyboard, promising "it won't be too long," while Billy Preston doesn't even [i]need[/i] lyrics to rocket into "Outa-Space," its groove as fat as a side of bacon. And the newly created Star Child of Parliament's "Mothership Connection" — think Moses with an Afro — guides his flock out of Babylon to the Chocolate Milky Way, shaking his [i]badonkadonk[/i] intergalactic-style. And there's more where these came from, as cosmic funkateers from Sun Ra and Andy Bey to Buckethead tripped their way through inner — and outer — space.

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