-->
Scientist the dubmaster

About Scientist the dubmaster

Biography

Hopeton Brown better known as The Scientist and sometimes known as Overton Brown, from Kingston, Jamaica was a protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), one of the originators of dub music. The Scientist burst onto the reggae scene in the early ’70s with a reckless mixing style that seemed to outdo even King Tubby’s wildest extravaganzas. He began his career as an engineer at Tubby’s in the mid 70’s shortly afterwards, he gained a reputation with a distinctive mixing style.

He left King Tubby's studio at the end of the 70’s and became the principal engineer for Channel One Studio, giving him the chance to record live music  rather than the four tracks at Tubby's that was only for mixing and voice over . He came to prominence in the early 1980s and produced many albums, his mixes featuring on many releases in the first part of the decade. In particular, he was the favorite engineer of Henry "Junjo" Lawes, for whom he mixed several albums featuring the Roots Radics, many based on tracks by Barrington Levy.  He also did a lot of work for Linval Thompson and Jah Thomas.[1] In 1982 he left Channel One to work at Tuff Gong studio and  brought a new sound to Tuff Gong  .

He made a series of albums in the early 1980s, released on Greensleeves Records with titles themed around Scientist's fictional achievements in fighting Space Invaders, Pac-Men, and Vampires, and winning the World Cup.  The music on these albums was played by Roots Radics, his most frequent collaborators.

Five of his songs from the album The Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires were used as the playlist songs on the K-Jah radio station in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto 3.

“In the ’70s, I started building sound system audio amplifiers. I would then test the amplifier with test instruments to determine how the amplifier was performing. Everything would look normal, but when I played reggae music through the amplifier, it would over heat and the plates of the KT88 would run red, especially when I played a mix from the great King Tubby’s that had subsonic drum and bass frequencies as well as razor sharp high frequencies I would have to re -bias the KT88 and make other changes in order to accommodate reggae’s wide frequency response and high slew rate needs. I noticed when I played other types of music the amplifier would respond normal. I found that to be strange so I used King Tubby’s mixes as a platform to ensure that the amplifiers would not break down under extreme conditions.

I was fascinated by his exclusive style of mixing and unique sound effects. It was the “Roots of Dub” dub album produced by Bunny Lee that became my favorite test album and also inspired me to want to meet him. One day, I was repairing a television for a friend who had worked for King Tubby’s, we needed a transformer and King Tubby’s was the only place who had those particular types of transformers I was so excited to meet this brilliant man and considered myself very lucky to have had this opportunity. After that, it became a regular place for me to buy special made power and output transformers for the amplifiers that I was building. King Tubby’s became impressed with my electronic skills and abilities at such a young age. I told him I wanted to build a mixing console, at first, it sounded like a joke to him we joked about making mixing consoles with moving faders and automation. Years later it became a reality in Neve’s moving faders and SSL’s automation with total recall.”

THE SCIENTIST DUB SHOW WORLD TOUR

  The Scientist . Dub Master Defender of the Faith!

"THE SCIENTIST AT THE CONTROLS!”

 FEATURING:  THE SCIENTIST  in a Live Dub Mix

For live Shows please email

bookings@dubmusic.com

DUB TOUR FEATURING THE DUB MASTER The SCIENTIST “AT THE CONTROLS” LIVE DUB MIXING ALONGSIDE A DIVERSE POOL OF DJ VOCALISTS AND SINGERS IN A REGGAE DANCE HALL STYLE - ALWAYS UNEXPECTED AND IMPROVISED WHILE IN PERFORMANCE 

Originator of Dub Music, delivers a one of a kind Reggae show, performing tracks from his extensive catalog of hits!

One of the leading dub artists of the '80s,The Scientist is one of the most distinctive figures on the Jamaican music scene, known for his spacious production and mixing techniques as well as his wild album titles and cover artwork. The Scientist's LPs found him using his skills at the mixing board to combat monsters, mythic villains, and video game characters. The Scientist was born Overton Brown in Kingston on April 18, 1960. Brown was only 16 years old when producer/performer Errol "Don" Mais discovered and developed the considerable talents of this adolescent dub wiz.

The Scientist learned basic electronics from his TV repairman father, skills that made him very popular with the mobile DJs and their not-always-functioning sound systems. A friend suggested he visit the legendary dub producer/mixer King Tubby, not to remix records, but to get some transformers with which The Scientist could build his own amplifiers. Soon The Scientist was an employee of Tubby's, fixing transformers and televisions. One day, after an animated conversation about mixing records, Tubby challenged The Scientist to take a shot at remixing a record. Brimming with adolescent bravado, he took Tubby up on his challenge, and that led to an extended apprenticeship in dub experimentation . It was while at Tubby's that the Scientist developed his idiosyncratic dub style, playful and very psychedelic, loaded with echo explosions and blasts of feedback -- a sound that caught the attention of Don Mais, who overheard The Scientist at the mixing board during a visit to Tubby's studio. With Mais supervising the production, The Scientist, now all of 18, cut some wicked dub sides for the Roots Tradition label.

At the end of the '70s, The Scientist (now also referred to as "The Dub Master") left Tubby's to become the main engineer at Channel One Studios, and working with Henry "Junjo" Lawes, cut some best-selling dub LPs, only to leave for the greener pastures of Tuff Gong in 1982. In 1985, The Scientist moved to Silver Springs, Maryland, where he worked as a recording engineer, designed electronics, and continued to record and release new dub material In the 21st century, .


[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1675"]

[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1432"]

[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1430"]

[jrEmbed module="jrVideo" id="41"]

[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1434"]

[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1436"]

[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="1438"]

FILMED SCIENTIST SHOWS:

http://www.dubmusic.com/dubmaster/youtube

SCIENTIST DISCOGRAPHY:

www.discogs.com/artist/Scientist

FACEBOOK PAGES:

www.facebook.com/dubbscientist

FOR BOOKING CONTACT

bookings@dubmusic.com

Technical Rider

Midas M32 digital mixing console only ( NO SUBSTITUTES)

***********************************************************

Accommodations and transportation

2 hotel rooms

60 EUROS perdium

Back stage accommodations

Water natural fruit juice and snacks

All transportation and accommodations  must be covered by the promoter..

Dislike 0

Tags