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So my brethren Jah Wise and all of u who loves lacksley must have noticed the BIG difference in the mastering/mixing between the original LP's and the new represses pon negus roots.

I noticed this difference specially on Morning Glory LP cause I have both the original press LP (Purple Label) and the Repress (White/Cream Label) and appears that the repress lost something from the original recording...

Either way, lacksley and mundell are great vocalists despite the fact that they died young...

"Collie Tree" and "Mrs. Brown" are great chunes, and I'd also like to add the mashin 12" "Jah Is Watching You", with the wicked dj version by poppa tullo called "Sweet Reggae Music"... for sure one of the sweeetest deejay versions...

Blessings,

Personnaly, What I find strange is not that some people are fond of Lacksley Castell... for there are fans for every artist...
What is stranger, imo, is that loads of people hate dis artist. There is kind of polarity of reggae people: The Castell's lovers and the others. Why, I dont know...

I personnally love Lacksley, especially as hes an 80s artist that did a real roots oriented work, which was not an easy and encouraged game... Most of his 12" are gems, as well as his Babylon Worls with Pablo. But I dont like the LPs.

Concerning Mundell, I agree with others to class him ina different category, even if his voice and style are close, cause he deeply contributed to the golden 70s age of roots music.

I havent heard the Negus Roots represses, Guno, what is the difference in the mix?

Guidance

@ pisces

I didn't "bad mind" any artist. I simply stated that I don't personally see why Castell and Mundell are so popular. If you had paid attention to my post you would have noticed that I said that I actually LIKE both artists, but neither one would be in my top 40.

I respect anyone who brings a positive vibe. But saying that we can't say anything bad about an artist's musical ability simply because they are lyrically positive? In my humble opinion, that is pure and utter crap. This is called a discussion board... you know... where people discuss things. Because of this discussion, I can now say that I have gained a new perspective on these artists and why people like them.

Do you play every single record you own an equal number of times? Do you own an equal number of records from every artist? Of course you don't. Know why? Because some artists are BETTER than others in your opinion. Before you start preaching, please think about what you are saying. Remember: your self-righteous positivity can sometimes be negativity in disguise.

I'm not sure how to explain... there's an "atmosphere" that seems to be lost in the remastered LP (maybe a digi process?)... maybe they did lost a bit of higher frequencies, coz sometimes some guitar strings seems too low or don't even apper when they should...

Also some songs clearly ends with different timing... maybe I'm too perfectionist but this minor differences are pretty clear to me, and I not only noticed this on morning glory repress, but also on others (like tullo's straight to the government or princess lady..) but these others I can't confirm because I only have mp3's taken from the original LP's... and they sound different from the repress I bought, but still I can't say they are different coz I don't own the original ones...

Besides that, I still have to give props for mr. Trevor Elliot the Musical Ambassador for making available again such a great and strict catalog as Negus Roots...

Blessings,

i agree with u ting junkie, we need to be able to discuss on here without things getting personal, u clearly said u may wind some people up by your comment but u also explain you did like the artists, the comment was about trying to understand why they where both so popular and was trying to promote a friendly discussion, i didn;t see any disrespecting of the artists, it's not nice when things get thrown out of context so easily, no one wants bad vibes on here......

lacksley and hugh did tracks to some of the best riddims ever laid, hugh's album with junjo is killer riddims beginning to end for me.

while it's not logical to big them up for it as they didn't produce or play the backing tunes, it's relevant because it adds to the enjoyment of the music

"Do you play every single record you own an equal number of times? Do you own an equal number of records from every artist? Of course you don't. Know why? Because some artists are BETTER than others in your opinion. Before you start preaching, please think about what you are saying. Remember: your self-righteous positivity can sometimes be negativity in disguise."


you are correct there i see it this way tho i only play good tunes (tunes i like) whatever the artist
but imho hugh and lacksley have many good tunes
even if a certain artist has only one superb tune it doesnt mean that artist is better than another only he has less good tunes than the other:)

in your case you could say that its quality that counts therefor the best artist is the one with quantity héhé
why not...

regarding the original and repress i suppose they didnt use the masters for the repress... dunno

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