Album Review: Various Artists - Running The Voodoo Down Explorations In PsychRockFunkSoulJazz 1967-80

Here's one for all space cadets in training: Warner have cast a wide net over the late '60s and '70s to compile this loosely themed odyssey of revolutionary sounds and psychedelic protest songs.

Some rare cuts from big names (James Brown, Miles Davis etc) cohabit with righteous classics such as Funkadelic's psychoactive epic Maggot Brain — where guitarist Eddie Hazel solos as if his mother just died — and an obscure jam by Lightnin' Rod and Jimi Hendrix which could qualify as the birth rap music.