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Re: FADING YELLOW 20-Worth the wait?

Here's the "review" I wrote on my Comp Connoisseurs FB page:

Fading Yellow Vol. 20 (Busy Bee, 2023 CD)
It's finally here, 6 months after I ordered it.
The positives: It's another very solid selection of tracks, with many unheard gems and first 'official' apperances of songs only previously available on private comps.
The negatives: It has the usual brief liner notes, mostly uncredited copy & paste jobs from online resources, and the sound quality is very variable. Worst of all is the otherwise superb Humidity 105 by Disraeli, which sounds terrible here. Actually I'm pretty sure it's taken (consentual or non consentual, who knows?) from Colin's YT post. As he writes there, his copy was pretty thrashed, but somehow it sounds even worse on the CD.

In the hands of a label like Big Beat, this would have been a fantastic comp, now it's just OK.