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Mad Professor

Mad Professor during a soundcheck
at Reggie's Music Place in Chicago, IL
Background information
Birth name Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser
Also known as Mad Professor
Born Georgetown, Guyana
Genres Dub, Reggae, Jungle
Occupations Music producer, music engineer
Years active 1979-current
Labels Ariwa
Website Myspace page

Mad Professor (born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, 1955, Georgetown, Guyana) is a dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music’s second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. He is a prolific producer, contributing to or producing nearly 200 albums. He has collaborated with reggae artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sly and Robbie, Pato Banton, Jah Shaka and Horace Andy, as well as artists outside the realm of traditional reggae and dub, such as Sade, Massive Attack, The Orb, and Brazilian DJ Marcelinho da lua.

Fraser became known as Mad Professor as a boy due to his fascination with electronics. He emigrated from Guyana to London at the age of 13 and later began his music career as a service technician. He gradually collected recording and mixing equipment and in 1979 opened his own four-track recording studio, Ariwa Sounds, in the living room of his home in Thornton Heath.[1] He 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 a new location in Peckham in 1982, equipped with an eight-track setup, later expanding to sixteen.[1] Fraser's Dub Me Crazy series of albums won the support of John Peel, who regularly aired tracks from the albums.[1] 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).[1] Fraser moved again, this time to South Norwood, where he set up what was the largest black-owned studio complex in the UK, where he recorded highly successful lovers rock tracks by Cross, John McLean, and Kofi, and attracted major Jamaican artists including Bob Andy and Faybiene Miranda.[1] He teamed up with reggae legend Lee "Scratch" Perry for the first time in 1989 for the album Mystic Warrior.[2]

Dub music, which combines reggae music and recording studio trickery, seemed to fit Mad Professor's musical and technical tastes perfectly and his early work remained faithful to the traditional Jamaican dub pioneered by King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Augustus Pablo. Mad Professor's early work was characterized by few vocal tracks and heavy echo, reverb, and phaser effects on the instrumentals. Eventually, he began to experiment with electronic sounds and effects alongside the traditional instruments. Synthesized sounds began to find a place in his mixes. This experimentation caught the attention of artists outside of reggae and dub genres and led to Mad Professor's work with electronic artists, most notably Massive Attack.

Contents

Recordings [link]

Mad Professor mixing Dub and Cumbia during a workshop in Bogota, Colombia

Mad Professor has released hundreds of original recordings and has worked with a number of reggae and non-reggae artists. He is perhaps best known for his 12 installments of the Dub Me Crazy series and 5 albums under the Black Liberation Dub banner. The following is a list of his more accessible original releases, collaborations with other artists, and remixes. A complete discography can be found at Discogs.com.[3]

Original recordings [link]

  • 1983 – In A Rub A Dub Style
  • 1985 – A Caribbean Taste Of Technology
  • 1992 – True Born African Dub
  • 1994 – The Lost Scrolls Of Moses
  • 1995 – It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Professor
  • 1997 – RAS Portraits
  • 2001 – Dubbing You Crazy
  • 2001 – Trix In The Mix
  • 2005 – Method To The Madness
  • 2007 – Dub You Crazy
  • 2008 – The Dubs That Time Forgot
  • 2009 - Audio Illusions of Dub

Dub Me Crazy series [link]

  • 1982 - Dub Me Crazy
  • 1982 - Beyond The Realms Of Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.2)
  • 1983 - The African Connection (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.3)
  • 1983 - Escape To The Asylum of Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.4)
  • 1985 - Who Knows The Secret Of The Master Tape (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.5)
  • 1986 - Schizophrenic Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.6)
  • 1987 - Adventures Of A Dub Sampler (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.7)
  • 1988 - Experiments Of The Aural Kind (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.8)
  • 1989 - Science And The Witchdoctor (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.9)
  • 1990 - Psychedelic Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt. 10)
  • 1992 - Hijacked To Jamaica (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.11)
  • 1993 - Dub Maniacs On The Rampage (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.12)

Black Liberation series [link]

  • 1994 - Black Liberation Dub (Chapter 1)
  • 1995 - Anti-Racist Broadcast (Black Liberation Chapter 2)
  • 1996 - The Evolution Of Dub (Black Liberation Chapter 3)
  • 1997 - Under The Spell Of Dub (Black Liberation Chapter 4)
  • 1999 - Afrocentric Dub (Black Liberation Chapter 5)

Dub You Crazy With Love Series [link]

  • 1997 – Dub You Crazy With Love
  • 2000 – Dub You Crazy With Love (Part 2)
  • 2008 – Bitter Sweet Dub

Collaborations [link]

With Lee “Scratch” Perry [link]

  • 1990 – Mystic Warrior
  • 1995 – Black Ark Experryments
  • 1995 – Super Ape Inna Jungle
  • 1996 – Experryments At The Grass Roots Of Dub
  • 1996 - Who Put The Voodoo Pon Reggae
  • 1996 – Dub Take the Voodoo Out of Reggae
  • 1998 – Live At Maritime Hall
  • 1998 – Fire In Dub
  • 2000 – Lee Perry Meets Mad Professor
  • 2001 – Techno Dub

With other artists [link]

  • 1982 – Rhythm Collision Dub (With Ruts DC)
  • 1983 – Punky Reggae Party (Positive Style) – Anti Social Workers
  • 1984 – Jah Shaka Meets Mad Professor At Ariwa Sounds
  • 1985 – Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton
  • 1989 – Mad Professor Recaptures Pato Banton
  • 1989 – Mad Professor Meets Puls Der Zeit
  • 1990 – A Feast Of Yellow Dub (With Yellowman)
  • 1996 – New Decade Of Dub (With Jah Shaka)
  • 2000 – The Inspirational Sounds Of Mad Professor
  • 2004 – Dub Revolutionaries (With Sly and Robbie)
  • 2004 – From The Roots (With Horace Andy)
  • 2004 – In A Dubwise Style (With Marcelinho da Lua)
  • 2005 – Moroccan Sunrise (With Borrah)
  • 2005 – Dancehall Dubs (With Crazy Caribs)
  • 2009 - Revolution Feat. Pato Banton And Mr. Professor (With Tugg)
  • 2009 – Nairobi Meets Mad Professor – Wu Wei
  • 2010 - Izrael Meets Mad Professor and Joe Ariwa

Remixes [link]

Since the 1990s he has remixed tracks by Sade, The Orb, The KLF, Beastie Boys, Jamiroquai, Rancid, Depeche Mode, Perry Farrell and Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki. His best-known project, perhaps, is 1995's No Protection, an electronic dub version of Massive Attack's second album, Protection. He has also done a version of I&I for New Zealand reggae band Katchafire. Mad Professor has done three versions for New Zealand electronic group Salmonella Dub.

References [link]

  1. ^ a b c d e Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books, ISBN 0-7535-0242-9, p.13-14
  2. ^ Huey, Steve "Mad Professor Biography", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
  3. ^ Mad Professor
  4. ^ Sugar Free Jazz: Slash In House Cassette - Discogs

Interviews [link]

External links [link]


https://wn.com/Mad_Professor

Podcasts:

Mad Professor

ALBUMS

Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor

Released 2011

The Roots of Dubstep

Released 2011

Mad Professor Meets Alika

Released 2009

Audio Illusions of Dub!

Released 2009

The Dubs That Time Forgot

Released 2008

In a Dubwise Style

Released 2005

Rewired for Dub

Released 2005

At the Dubtable

Released 2005

Duble Oryantal

Released 2005

Method to the Madness: Mad Professor

Released 2005

From the Roots

Released 2004

Ruhani Oyun Havaları

Released 2003

From Mars With Dub, Part 1 Sci-Fi Dub Series

Released 2002

Dubbing You Crazy

Released 2001

Trix in the Mix, Part 1

Released 2001

Meet in Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie

Released 2000

Techno Dub

Released 2000

Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor In Dub Chapter 1&2

Released 2000

The Inspirational Sounds of Mad Professor

Released 1999

Dub Them Silly Ina Firehouse

Released 1998

Lee Perry Meets The Mad Professor

Released 1998

Dubtronic

Released 1998

Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 5: Afrocentric Dub

Released 1998

Ras Portraits

Released 1997

Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 4: Under the Spell of Dub

Released 1997

Dub You Crazy With Love

Released 1997

New Decade of Dub

Released 1996

Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 3: Evolution of Dub

Released 1996

Dub Take the Voodoo Out of Reggae

Released 1996

No Protection

Released 1995

In a Rub a Dub Style

Released 1995

Super Ape Inna Jungle

Released 1995

Black Ark Experryments

Released 1995

Dub Me Crazy, Part 11: Hijacked To Jamaica

Released 1995

Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 2: Anti-Racist Dub Broadcast

Released 1995

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Professor

Released 1994

Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 1

Released 1994

The Lost Scrolls of Moses

Released 1993

Dub Me Crazy, Part 12: Dub Maniacs on the Rampage

Released 1993

True Born African Dub

Released 1992

Dub Me Crazy, Part 10: Psychedelic Dub

Released 1990

Mystic Warrior

Released 1990

A Feast of Yellow Dub (feat. Yellowman)

Released 1990

Recaptures Pato Banton

Released 1989

Dub Me Crazy, Part 9: Science and the Wichdoctor

Released 1989

Dub Me Crazy, Part 8: Experiments of the Aural Kind

Released 1988

Dub Me Crazy, Part 7: Adventures of a Dub Sampler

Released 1987

Mystic Warrior & Mystic Warrior Dub

Released 1986

Dub Me Crazy, Part 6: Schizophrenic Dub

Released 1986

Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton

Released 1985

A Caribbean Taste of Technology

Released 1985

Dub Me Crazy, Part 5: Who Knows the Secret of the Master Tape?

Released 1985

At Ariwa Sounds

Released 1984

Dub Me Crazy, Part 4: Escape to the Asylum Of Dub

Released 1983

Dub Me Crazy, Part 3: The African Connection

Released 1983

Dub Me Crazy, Part 2: Beyond The Realm Of Dub

Released 1982

Dub Me Crazy, Part 1

Released 1982

Kings of Reggae

Wu Wei (Nairobi Meets Mad Professor)

Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel in Ariwa Studio's

The Next Revolution Will Be Dub Wise

Moroccan Sunrise (feat. Borrah)

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Mad Professor

by: ICP (Insane Clown Posse)

[Dialogue between Violent J and Couch Guy]
[Violent J]
I was never popular, this I'll admit, fuck school never liked me, Goo!
All the kids would always beat me, until I'm half-dead
Make fun of the size of my forehead
But that shit never bothered me, Mama and Mother
They had a lot of property
They had a science lab in the basement
And that's where my free ti...well, my time was spent
I made a mouse with a chicken head
It clucked three times: CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK!
And then it was dead
I made a lot of things though, like a frog with a turkey neck
gobblegobblegobble, it was the shit (yeah)
But I'm still lonely, I need a homie
So I collected limbs and made a zombie
I could've made a girlie friend
But fuck that, I got my girlie right here...yeah!
[Chorus]
You can call me Mad Professor
I will make a friend for me
You can call me Mad Professor
We will rule eternity
[Dialogue between Violent J and a bitch]
[Violent J]
I used so many body parts it was crazy
I killed a whole bunch of mother fuckers , like what, eighty?
They all chipped in on my special friend
Everything helps, Even if you got a finger to lend, come on
I hear the other children playing outside
"Keep it down you little bitches, I'll skin your fucking hides!"
?Stressful?, this part is wack
Some how I gots to attach this nut sack
Shit! Fuck! I'm sawing off an elbow
Looking at the meter I'm like ?Quasar and Ziphalo?
Or better yet look out the fucking window
I see a storms coming, almost time to roll
Screw the head on, come on, come on
It's the thuggish, ruggish, bone
Okay it's time, hit the switch, turn it up a hert
Fuck! Shit! Didn't work
[Chorus]
[Dialogue between Violent J and a wrecker serviceman]
It wasn't always easy (Hell no!) let me tell ya
But fuck that, cause I ain't no failure
I put the shit with the veins and this with that
Wait a minute...(brrrt) did you hear that?
It's alive! I just gotta wake it up
Hand me that ?rocky rye? pour it in a cup
Give it to his ass wait, hold up, pause
I ain't cleaning his draws man, fuck that
Get him fat, get him ready, it's almost time
Paint his ugly face up almost like mine
I see him twitching, I'm on a roll
He can help me tell the whole world about the carnival
Turn the hertz all the way up for this shit
And just wait for that lightning bolt to hit
Did it work? You make the call
Shaggy? (What up, y'all!)
[Chorus 3X]




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