Norman Whitfield gave you psychedelic soul, but George Clinton gave you psychedelic funk. After warming up with a 1969 debut album, Clinton’s collective Funkadelic added keyboard player Bernie Worrell and ramped up the madness on a pair of uneven but inspired albums, Free Your Mind… (1970, see A1-A4 here) and Maggot Brain (1971, see B1-B4 here). After that, guitarist Eddie Hazel left the band, resulting in a more conventional sound, but on the eight tracks compiled on Hit It, Hazel’s wild fuzz-rampages detonate the music and elevate it to an extreme level of acid funk dementia only doubled by Clinton’s stoned declarations and the band’s experimental sound layers. In a period when multiple classic recordings of black music were made, Funkadelic take their place alongside the iconoclastic greats.