The Mad Professor (Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser) began recording ‘lovers rock’ bands and vocalists for his own label (including the debut recording by Deborahe Glasgow), and recorded his first album after moving the studio to Peckham in the UK in 1982, equipped with an eight-track setup, later expanding to 16.
Fraser’s Dub Me Crazy series of albums won the support of John Peel, who regularly aired tracks from the albums.
Although early releases were not big sellers among reggae buyers, the mid-1980s saw this change with releases from Sandra Cross (Country Life), Johnny Clarke, Peter Culture, Pato Banton, and Macka B (Sign of the Times).
Fraser moved again, this time to South Norwood, where he set up what was the largest black-owned studio complex in the UK and recorded ‘lovers rock’ tracks by Cross, John McLean, and Kofi, and attracted Jamaican artists including Bob Andy and Faybiene Miranda.
He teamed up with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry for the first time in 1983 for the recording of the album Mystic Warrior (1989).
That was then…
The Mad Professor Dubs Down Under Tour brings dub legend Mad Professor to Australian shores to deliver his dub message via a mixing console and he’s landing in Byron this weekend.
An innovator of live dub performance and a disciple of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, witness the Mad Professor’s renowned and ever-changing live dub show journeying through the history of dub to the present cutting edge, including exclusives from his deep Ariwa Sounds catalogue.
Plus an Australian first for the Professor, a live dub mix of Melbourne instrumental reggae band Kong & The Dudley Flats Rockers. Alongside guest selectors, vocalists and very special guests.
This very special show in on Saturday from 8pm at The Northern, Byron Bay. Tickets $30 + bf at oztix.com.au.
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