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Great,great,great:)
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Dubbing with Prince Far I...

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Best wishes to the marvelous Dread at the Controls!!!

Folowed by another classic: [cover=6407,1484]

Bass Culture by LKJ

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Recently got back from Japan. Lots to catch up on here, including the 1,000th post to this thread. Very cool! Got back in time to order a RA t-shirt too.

Just posted an all-JP podcast (see link below), and LKJ seemed the right change of pace.

Starting with:
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than it's:
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Why this hadn't been released in 1978?

and now it's great instrumental:
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Many many thanks to Chris;)

Dub out of Poland wrote:Why this hadn't been released in 1978?

From the [Pressure Sounds](http://www.pressure.co.uk/item/PS18/) website;

"Dating from 1978/79, the master tape almost from the time of delivery disappeared. Despite requests for the tapes whereabouts - no luck. Prince Far I's widow similarly drew a blank - the tape seemed lost. During a conversation with Pete Stroud aka Dr Pablo in early 1997 I said how tragic it was that a truly classic Prince Far I album was lost forever. Pete was aware that Richard (one of the original Hitrun staff) had made a cassette copy at the time from the original master tape and had it in his drawer at home. What?

We took the cassette to On-U Sound studio and listened in amazement, the quality was better than we could ever have hoped. In transferring the cassette to DAT and SADIE systems virtually nothing more than a little equalization and editing was necessary - Health and Strength was found."

Back on topic;
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MICHAEL PROPHET - Woman Who I Love (Jah Life 12")

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I've always thought that Livity is one of the weakest releases from Prince Far I, but after years I've completly changed my mind. It's great!!!

Now I'm checking out this:
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