Ady Croasdell

What's the label?

Wossonit Ken?

There are some good ones on Tony Rounce's Kent compilation; A Change Is Gonna Come.

Even the new vinyl 45s we put out are by definition worse than the CD equivalent but we know a lot of people prefer to have it on vinyl. Carvers are a low quality reproduction but over a big system in a nightclub do the job adequately. This is all really only relevant to people with good sound systems; mine's actually pants and Sonny has disabled it so it's all theoretical!

Yes you can get very good results from de-clicking and de-hissing etc but every time you do it you lose some of the music as well. No vinyl single will ever sound as good as a master tape and if you've got the proper engineers etc your CD will be master tape quality. People who prefer 100 % analogue right through the process are fooling themselves in my opinion. The actual music isn't technically digital or analogue it just needs reproducing most efficiently and digital is the most efficient and perfect way of doing that short of a time machine to the studio session.

I know simon, i was just doing my job! So you like the idea of the DJ's wife on the streets and the kids up the chimneys (or down the mine up your way)!

What this whole discussion inadvertently highlights is the superiority of digital. In each of the stages from recording onto multi track tape to bouncing it down to 1/4" tape to cutting the master acetate, to making the mothers to making the stampers to pressing the vinyl (I may have missed out one or two), sound quality is lost. Now with digitally remastered sound you can get it directly from multi track tapes (if they exist) and at least five generations of sound quality reductions are avoided (bouncing digitally does not reduce quality). it's still down to the skill of the post production engineer to get the optimum sound and EQ from a tape and if there's a monmkey in charge of that it can easily sound worse than the 45. At Ace we have our own post production studios who have had decades of experience in getting the right sound from such tapes. To summarise if you want the best sound at your all nighter install CD players (or a laptop) and play properly master sourced digital tracks. nb if the CD is from a crap company that only dubs from original discs as they don't have the rights or expertise to handle tape correctly, they will sound worse than the 45 as that's dubbing is a further generation of sound quality lost.

What a killer title!

Yeah, same group different label owner. It shows the label's legit and correctly licensed.

Probably the company had been taken over and was trying to get some action out of the back catalogue and changed the name so it would look like a new release is my bet. It's not rare enough for a boot. Ady

Never seen it before, what an odd release!

Well meaning but bollox. The spices that make you cry for christ sake.

There's bound to be plenty slipping ut onto Ebay. We've got a great collection of Mirwood ones here at Ace from when we bought the company. Most will have been thrown away once the records failed to do much, it was diposable then and of ten they are written on big thick paper and are quite bulky. You often get the basic music in the acetates, i've got Ben E King's 'Gettin' To Me' and Sharon Scott's 'I'm Not Afraid'

That's the one thanks. Definitely no Part 2 I'm afraid.

I meant the record! I'm a huge fan of Marvin & Tammi together or separately and regularly play 'What You Gave Me' one of the cheapest and best dancers around; but as my musical knowledge is so rubbish I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for them!

Because I don't like one record that makes me a snob. OK I hate Pyramid too does that make me the opposite because it's rare?

Hi Iu, It might have been something Randy put together so I don't think there was a part 2 as he passed away not long after. I'll ask his sons if that's what happened. Ady

Well remembered Dave. But by then it was the numbers I was collecting, not the music and once I'd got every UK Tamla release i flogged the lot so I'm afraid you won't find it round my gaff. Cheers Ady

No pop and popular are not always the same thing; the clue was in the lightweight. I think the Beatles Berry Gordy and Phil Spector among others made great pop records that were popular, the other people I already mentioned made shit popular records like this one we're discussing. PS I won't get into trouble the way this is shaping up.

No idea that intro sends me scurrying for my members LP. sleep tight in your cave or are you o'erseas?

Not when she's singing about onions. I'm in tip top condition, in fact I just got out at 4 suit spider patience so I'm rather smug, just having a go at a pet hate; like you do.

It was the catchy lightweight pop of the record i was comparing, not the singers. i can see I'll have to make it a bit easier for you next time.

Bloody awful record as bad as soul gets. In fact it's not soul it's catchy lightweight pop like Abba, Buddy Holly or the bee gees. I'd include Blondie only they couldn't even write!

I'm not very good with technology! It's probably the one in Dave Godin's deep Soul treasures, it was his photo.

I've got a lovely Adio Arts pic with 2 boys and 2 girls.