Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
A 1981 dub album with a comic book sleeve and a silly title that happens to be one of the sharpest, funniest and best sequenced records the form has produced.
Scientist
Engineer
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Late 1970s onwards
Hopeton Brown got his nickname at King Tubby’s studio, where he started out repairing equipment and ended up mixing. Where Tubby’s dubs feel carved out of stone, Scientist’s are quicker and more playful, full of sudden drops and effects that arrive like a joke with perfect timing.
He went on to work at Channel One with the Roots Radics as the house band, and the records from that period, issued largely on Greensleeves with Tony McDermott’s comic book sleeves, introduced dub to a generation of listeners outside Jamaica.
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Ten records to start with
Not the ten best, and not the ten rarest. Ten that will teach you the most about how roots and dub work, in an order that makes sense.