Rocket Remnants: mad professor

Monday, 1 June 2009

Roots & Culture

Imminent for re-release, this 1992 offering from Mad Professor was undoubtedly one of his best; helped out enormously by the words and masterful yelps of top toaster U Roy.

Very much an album to skank to; most of the tracks skip along with joyful exuberance; and with the Prof on the knobs, arrangements and effects are predictably mind bending.

This is great music to take out into the garden: crank it up, crack a can, and pass the dutchie to your neighbours.
Yeah, man!

Mad Professor - True Born African Dub (1992)

True Born Dub
Six Million Dollar Dub Version
Treasure Isle Style
Dub Pon Me Corner
Sistern Version
Dubwish
Black Is Dub
Bengali Dub
Money Dub
Feather of Dub
Dubwise Soca
Dub City

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Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Duplicitous Dub

Like Scientist, King Tubby or Augustus Pablo, you know exactly what you're going to get when it comes to Mad Professor.

Carrying on in the great tradition established in the Caribbean, Mad Professor, aka Neil Fraser, picked up the dub baton and ran with it.

Because of his place in time, essentially the eighties (although he is still working), working out of London he soon became part of the insurgence of new wave dub and roots music; kick started by the creative and inspirational British post-punk scene.

His moniker was earned due to his expertise and wizardry in electronics, and it was that skill alongside a fine set of ears and dominion over the knobs that made his sound and production really stand out.

And that's what this recording does; stand out.

A prolific worker, Mad Professor has released over a hundred recordings of his own music and collaborated or been a part of many, many more.

But this I think is the best of the bunch.

Part of the Dub Me Crazy series, Schizophrenic Dub is exactly that.

Off the wall and all over the shop, the sonics are dizzying, constantly taking you by surprise.

The title track is particularly disorientating.

Crazy!