Mad Professor - UK

Dubbed by schoolmates ‘Mad Professor’ for his fascination with electronics, Guyana-born Neil Fraser has become dub music’s king of engineering and production.

What would you expect of a guy who built his own radio and telephone system at the age of 10! He has contributed to almost 200 albums, from Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly and Robbie, and Horace Andy, to Sade, Massive Attack and The Orb.

Starting with a four-track recording studio in the living room of his London home in 1979, Mad Professor developed the magic touch for combining reggae and recording studio trickery. His early work remained faithful to traditional Jamaican dub characterised by few vocal tracks with heavy echo, reverb and phaser effects on instrumental riffs – best identified on Dub Me Crazy, the first of a 12-part album series, which become a beacon for his Ariwa label.

By the 1990s, his sound began to change, gaining international notoriety for its dub, roots and techno/drum and bass catalogue – mostly through Mad Professor’s sensational remixing of Massive Attack’s second album, Protection. After being invited to play at the Greenpeace festival in Manáus, Brazil in 2003, Mad Professor has become a regular performer in South America, Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Portugal, Seoul, Bangkok, Goa and Dakar, at the Senegalese Government’s Back to Africa festival.

By arrangement with Origin Music.

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