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Scientist learned his trade as a teenager at King Tubby's studio in Kingston, where he went from helping with electronics to mixing the desk on sessions for some of reggae's biggest producers. In the early 1980s he released a rush of dub albums with playful, comic-book titles, and his spacious, effects-heavy mixes — built on Roots Radics rhythms from Channel One — helped define what dub could sound like after Tubby's generation.

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Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (1981). The clearest single-artist statement of his peak period, with a title that matches the fun he had naming his dubs. Tracks like "Your Teeth in My Neck," "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Corpse Rises" show off his echo-drenched, bottom-heavy style all in one place.

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Biography

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.

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Studio albums

Heavyweight Dub Champion 1980Allied Dub Selection 1980Scientist vs. Prince Jammy: Big Showdown at King Tubby's 1980The Best Dub Album in the World (Introducing Scientist) 1980Scientist Meets the Space Invaders 1981World at War 1981Yabby You & Michael Prophet meets Scientist at the Dub Station 1981First, Second and Third Generation of Dub 1981Dub Landing 1981Three the Hard Way 1981Scientific Dub 1981Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires 1981In Dub 1981In the Kingdom of Dub 1981Dub Landing, Volume 2 1982The Seducer Dub Wise 1982Scientist Wins the World Cup 1982Scientist Encounters Pac-Man 1982Scientist Meets the Roots Radics 1982Heavy Metal Dub 1982Scientist and Jammy Strike Back! 1983Dub Duel At King Tubby's 1983The Peoples Choice 1983High Priest of Dub 1983Repatriation Dub 19831999 Dub 19841999 Dub 1984King of Dub 1987Fatman Presents Twin Spin, Volume 1: Dub Confrontation: First, Second & Third Generation of Dub 1995Lee Perry Meets Scientist at the Blackheart Studio 1996King Tubby's Meets Scientist at Dub Station 1996King Tubby’s Meets Scientist in a World of Dub 1996Dubbin With Horns 1996Dub in the Roots Tradition 1996Jah Thomas Meets Scientist in Dub Conference 1996At Channel One Studio 1997Dub for Daze, Volume Two 1997Scientist Kills The Millennium Bug 1999Scientist Dubs Culture Into a Parallel Universe 2000Dubwise Revolution 2000Lee Perry & The Upsetter meet Scientist at Black Ark Studio 2000All Hail the Dub Head 2001Scientist Wins the World Cup 2001At the Dubtable 2005Nightshade Meets Scientist 2005Dub War - Coxsone vs. Quaker City 2006Dub From the Ghetto 2006Dub 911 2006In a Dub Explosion 2006Barry Brown Meets The Scientist at King Tubby’s With the Roots Radics 2009Tribute to Augustus Pablo 2014The Dub Album They Didn't Want You To Hear! 2015Repatriation Dub 2015Jah Life in Dub 2015In Dub 2016Heavyweight Dub 2016The Untouchable 2017The Birth of Scientist 2017Scientist Meets Hempress Sativa in Dub 2018Scientist Dubs Don D' Lion Universe 2021King Tubby meets The Scientist: In A Revival Dub 2022Free Brazil From The Invading Vampires 2023Direct-to-Dub 2024Before the Beginning 2025

Discography

Official studio albums and EPs.

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