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Mad Professor
Dub! | NO. 144

Mad Professor

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

My introduction to Mad Professor was via an album called No Protection, his dub remix of Massive Attack's Protection. It was a journey to a musical universe that I was aware of, but had never fully immersed myself in. It opened doors to King Tubby, Lee "Scratch"...

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Emch of Subatomic Sound System
Dub! | NO. 136

Emch of Subatomic Sound System

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

Co-founded by Emch in 1999, Subatomic Sound System is a collective of musicians and others with a focus on combining the new and old technologies of music, as inspired by Jamaican dub studio work and sound system culture. Collaborations with Lee "Scratch" Perry began...

Hopeton Overton Brown is "The Scientist"
Dub! | NO. 136

Hopeton Overton Brown is "The Scientist"

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

Jamaican electronics whiz kid Hopeton Overton Brown got his moniker "Scientist" from none other than one of dub music production's founding fathers, King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock). As a teenager he began engineering and mixing out of Tubby's, later moving to...

Adrian Sherwood
Dub! | NO. 136

Adrian Sherwood

BY LARRY CRANE

I remember the first time I heard the Dub Syndicate album, Tunesfrom the Missing Channel, in 1984. I was used to reggae being somethingearthy and warm, but here was a record that sizzled and popped with weirdsounds, synths, cut up spoken parts, and musical juxtapositions. I was...

Lee "Scratch" Perry
Dub! | NO. 136

Lee "Scratch" Perry

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

If you are a music producer, mixer, label owner, songwriter, or electronic music maker, you owe a debt to Lee "Scratch" Perry. He was, and continues to be, a spiritual guide and compass for true artistic expression. He is a dub pioneer, the first to turn Rasta culture...

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Dub! | NO. 22

Airline People

BY CURTIS SETTINO

"These recordings are outtakes from our first two U.S. albums," states the inner sleeve of this 15- minute CD. I don't know this band, so it's impossible for me to tell if these are simply songs that wouldn't fit on their earlier CDs or if they are songs...