Scientist
Hopeton Overton Brown (born 18 April 1960) is a Jamaican recording engineer and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing dub music as "Scientist". A protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), Scientist's contemporaries include several figures who, working at King Tubby's studio, had helped pioneer the genre in the 1970s: Ruddock, Bunny Lee, Philip Smart, Pat Kelly and Prince Jammy.
1970s: King Tubby's, Channel One, and Studio One
Scientist was introduced to electronics by his father, who worked as a television and radio repair technician. He began building his own amplifiers and would buy transformers from Tubby's Dromilly Road studio. While at the studio, the Scientist asked Tubby to give him a chance at mixing. He was taken on at Tubby's as an assistant, performing tasks such as winding transformer coils, and began working as a mixer in the mid-1970s, initially creating dubs of reworked Studio One tracks for Don Mais's Roots Tradition label, given his chance when Prince Jammy cut short a mixing session for Mais because he was too tired to continue. His name originated from a comment by Bunny Lee to King Tubby, with regard to his technical proficiency, "Damn, this little...
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Heavyweight Dub
At Channel One Studio
Dub in the Roots Tradition
King Tubby's Meets Scientist in a World of Dub
King of Dub
1999 Dub
High Priest of Dub
Repatriation Dub
The Peoples Choice
Scientist and Jammy Strike Back!
Scientist Meets the Roots Radics
The Seducer Dub Wise
Heavy Metal Dub
Scientific Dub
In the Kingdom of Dub
Yabby You & Michael Prophet meets Scientist at the Dub Station
Three the Hard Way
World at War
Dub Landing
Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
The Best Dub Album in the World (Introducing Scientist)
Heavyweight Dub Champion
Introducing Scientist (The Best Dub Album In The World)
The Best Dub Album In The World
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- 1 Step It Up
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- 2 Front Line
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- 4 House On The Rock
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- 7 Dub from the Ghetto
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- 11 Dub of the Traveler
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- 12 Dub of the Drifter
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Riddims Scientist voiced
Bobby Babylon Riddim
9 versions · 1986
Drum Song Riddim
4 versions · 1992
Fire House Rock Riddim
3 versions · 1983
When I Fall In Love Riddim
3 versions · 1968
Many Changes In Life Riddim
2 versions · 1980
Smiling Faces Riddim
2 versions · 1984
Baltimore Riddim
2 versions · 1996
Every Knee Shall Bow Riddim
2 versions · 1980
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- 5 Elasticated
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