A Dub Lesson from the Mad Professor
Mad Professor was a second generation dubmaster who was a protegee of Lee "Scratch" Perry. The Professor is credited with bringing dub music to the alternative music scene when he remixed the entire
Blue Lines album for Massive Attack.
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Mad Professor was born Neal Fraser (or Neil Fraser) circa 1955 in Guyana, a small country in the northern part of South America. He earned his nickname as a preteen, thanks to his intense interest in electronics; he even built his own radio. At age 13, his family moved to London, and around age 20, he started collecting recording equipment: reel-to-reel tape decks, echo and reverb effects, and the like. In 1979, he built his own mixing board and opened a four-track studio in his living room in the south London area of Thornton Heath. Calling it Ariwa, after a Nigerian word for sound or communication, he began recording bands and vocalists for his own label of the same name, mostly in the lovers rock vein
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from the All Music Guide
Below is a dub lesson for the master himself, the Mad Professor:
Tribal War Dub - Mad Professor Tribal War Dub is an early dub standard produced in 1977.
Roots and Culture- Mikey Dread Jamaican ex-partiate now a UK producer Mikey Dread is known primarily for his work with the Clash. You can hear Dread's work on the sublime collection
Black Market Clash released by the Clash in 1980.
Roots and Culture is from Dread's first big mainstream album release
Pave the Way. Among the session player are Rico Rodriguez, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Flabba Holt, Ashante Roy, and the Clash's Paul Simonon. In 1979 before moving to London, Mikey produced
Dread at the Controls a crucial roots dub album that was influential in Jamaica.
Scientist Ganja Dub - Scientist Overton Brown, like Neal Frazer, was also child prodigy at fixing electronic gadgets and King Tubby originally hired to keep his massive sound system up and running. King Tubby was so impressed with Overton's knowledge of electronics he dubbed him Scientist and gave him his first shot at the mixing board at age 16.
Scientist Ganja Dub was a massive hit for Scientist in the late Seventies and is one of the most frequently sampled songs in reggae music history.