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Inner City: Big Fun (Virgin)

Frank Owen, Spin, August 1989

BACK IN THE late 70s, Detroit DJ the Electrifyin' Mojo would climax his nightly progressive funk'n'rock show with an on-air ceremony he called "Landing the Mothership." The soundtrack to this midnight ritual wasn't, as you might expect, Parliament Funkadelic, but often Kraftwerk's 'Trans-Europe Express'.

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