SCIENTIST - Introducing Scientist : The Best Dub Album In The World... (2022 Repress) - LP - Vinyl

LABEL: Superior Viaduct

CAT NO: SV093

BARCODE: 857176003690

Tracklisting:

Side 1
1. Steppers
2. Rubber Foot
3. Elasticated
4. Rocking
5. Lovers

Side 2
1. Front Line
2. Scientific
3. Jungle
4. Bali-Hi
5. Chemistry

SCIENTIST – Introducing Scientist
– The Best Dub Album In The World…
(2022 Repress)

LP – Black Vinyl

Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for nearly 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby‘s studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby’s throne, producing imaginative and technically impressive mixes that solidified his forward-looking nickname.

Introducing Scientist – The Best Dub Album In The World, his 1980 debut LP, lives up to its boastful title. Recorded with Sly & Robbie at Channel One Studio and mixed at King Tubby’s, the album features hypnotic basslines, reverb-drenched keyboards, and fluid, start-stop rhythms. Opening track “Steppers,” with its well-balanced phrasing and organic contours, shows Scientist’s mastery of the studio-as-instrument concept. On “Scientific,” the effects-laden guitars are stretched to their outer limit to create magnificent, spaced-out textures and muted tension. Introducing Scientist displays the talents of a man obsessed with every element of production, drawing out the very best of the dub form.