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He is perhaps best known for his 12 instalments of the Dub Me Crazy series and 5 albums under the Black Liberation Dub banner. Mad Professor has released hundreds of original recordings and has worked with a number of reggae and non-reggae artists. Mad Professor mixing Dub and Cumbia during a workshop in Bogotá, Colombia įraser's son continues his father's musical tradition, produced dub under the alias Joe Ariwa. He teamed up with Lee 'Scratch' Perry for the first time in 1983 for the recording of the album Mystic Warrior (1989). 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 successful lovers rock tracks by Cross, John McLean, and Kofi, and attracted Jamaican artists including Bob Andy and Faybiene Miranda. 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's Dub Me Crazy series of albums won the support of John Peel, who regularly aired tracks from the albums. 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. 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. He emigrated from Guyana to London at the age of 13 and later began his music career as a service technician.
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, Gaudi, the Brazilian DJ Marcelinho da lua, Grace Jones, and Perry Farrel.įraser became known as Mad Professor as a boy due to his fascination with electronics. He is considered one of the leading producers of dub music's second generation and was instrumental in transitioning dub into the digital age. Mad Professor (born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, 1955, Georgetown, Guyana) is a British national dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. Mad Professor during a soundcheck at Reggie's Music Place in Chicago