bob & gene

macaca

this collection surprised the hell out of me.putting the horrible mastering aside, the tracks arefucking incredible. what do you think?

ako

honestly i wasnt that into it. maybe i should give it another listen...

Junior

I've been playing I Can Be Cool off that collection a lot the last month or so. I'm a big sucka for songs about frustrated love though.

kala

frustrated love

TREW

the horrible mastering aside

the OG reels were a tough re-master.. feeling this though. AKO you NEED a 2nd listen for sure..

mannybolone

Yeah - the original reels had been slowly disintegrating in a box for 35 years and, most likely, were never recorded at a top-flight studio to begin with ("Mo Do" doesn't conjure visions of some state-of-the-art spot). I think the album sounds pretty good given that.

macaca

yeah, i read it was a hard remaster as well, i guess i was just mad that my favourite track on the album "you don't need me" (which happens to be one of the songs of low quality) was playing while i was typing. given the circumstance of the recordings, im just happy to hear it.

TNG

Audio seems to be a larger and larger problem as the reissue world goes deeper. Of course Daptone would have liked to work with pristine source material that was stored in a temperature controlled room, but that wasn't a possibility. We encountered a similar problem recently with Jay Mitchell's "Goombay Bump," in which the source was so poor that we had our engineer go back and remove even more of the the imposing artifacts. What they sent over was cleaner, but it was also missing the high end of the horns, giving the song an over all crisper but less full feel. We ended up going with the original.

B&G could have sounded better had they been willing to start sacrificing parts of the songs. Given that, would you rather hear it as it was meant to sound, or a 21st century lifeless update?

parsec

Absolutely fantastic record