Scientist(2)

:(For the Peel session artist of the same name, see Scientist)
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Scientist, born Hopeton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960 (sometimes known as Overton Brown), was a protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), one of the originators of dub music. 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. 
He was taken on at Tubby's as an assistant, performing tasks such as winding transformer coils, and began working as a mixer in the mid-1970s, initially creating dubs of reworked Studio One tracks for Don Mais's Roots Tradition label, given his chance when Prince Jammy cut short a mixing session for Mais because he was too tired to continue. His name originated from a comment by Tubby to Bunny Lee, with regard to his technical proficiency, "Damn, this little boy must be a scientist."
Scientist came to prominence in the early 1980s and produced many albums, his mixes featuring on many releases in the first part of the decade. He made a series of albums in the early 1980s, released on Greensleeves Records with titles themed around Scientist's fictional achievements in fighting Space Invaders, Pac-Men, and Vampires, and winning the World Cup. The music on these albums was played by Roots Radics, his most frequent collaborators. 
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== Links to Peel ==
Peel played Scientist frequently in the early 1980s, during his emergence as a "third generation" dub master, lined up alongside mentors King Tubby and Prince Jammy at King Tubby's studio. Among others, airtime was given the celebrated but allegedly unauthorized series of colourfully named and packaged LPs on Greensleeves Records in the UK ("Meets The Space Invaders", "Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires", etc).
Later radio plays by the DJ were less common, generally returning to the earlier breakthrough period.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
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== Sessions ==
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== Other Shows Played ==
;1980
*18 March 1980 (with Mikey Dread): Tempting Temptation (Single) Dread At The Controls
*24 March 1980 (with Mikey Dread): Tempting Temptation (Single) Dread At The Controls
*28 October 1980: Streight In The Boy Coxsone Chest - Dub (LP - Dub War (Coxsone Vs Quaker City)) Imperial
;1981
*19 January 1981: Time Warp (album - Scientist Meets The Space Invader) Greensleeves GREL 19
*04 February 1981: Time Warp (album - Scientist Meets The Space Invaders) Greensleeves GREL 19
*05 February 1981 (BFBS): Time Warp (album - Scientist Meets The Space Invaders) Greensleeves GREL 19
*11 February 1981: Time Warp Machine (album - Scientist Meets The Space Invaders) Greensleeves GREL 19
*26 February 1981: The Kreech (album - Scientist Meets The Space Invader) Greensleeves GREL 19
*19 March 1981 (BFBS): Black Out (album - Dub Landing) Starlight SLD 901
*19 March 1981 (BFBS): Third Generation Scientist (split album with King Tubby & Prince Jammy - First, Second and Third Generation Dub) KG Imperial KGLP 002
*25 March 1981: Scientist At His Best (split album with King Tubby & Prince Jammy - First, Second and Third Generation Dub) KG Imperial KGLP 002
*02 June 1981: unknown possibly "Bad Days Dub” from (album - Scientific Dub) Clocktower LPCT 01
*07 June 1981 (BFBS): Just Say Dub (album - Scientific Dub) Clocktower LPCT 01
*14 September 1981: The Winner (split album with Maxie & Barnabas - Three The Hard Way) Silver Camel SCLP 001
*15 September 1981: Wa Di Is Free (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*17 September 1981 (BFBS): Fighting Radics (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*Peel September 1981: Forward Dis Ya Dub (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*21 September 1981: Jah Is Love (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*21 September 1981: Cultured Dub (split album with Maxie & Barnabas - Three The Hard Way) Silver Camel SCLP 001
*24 September 1981 (BFBS): Wa Di Is Free (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*24 September 1981 (BFBS): The Winner (album - Scientist Meets The Roots Radics) Selena SLP 001
*Peel October November 1981: The Voodoo Curse (LP - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves
*04 October 1981 (BFBS): Cry Of The Werewolf (album - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves GREL
*04 October 1981 (BFBS): The Mummy's Shroud (album - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves GREL
*22 October 1981 (BFBS): Ghost Of Frankenstein (album - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves GREL
*17 November 1981: Your Teeth In My Neck (album - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves GREL
;1982
*John Peel Playing Reggae, Hip Hop & Good Pop Radio 1: Forgive Them Oh Jah (LP - High Priest Of Dub) Kingdom
*John Peel Playing Reggae, Hip Hop & Good Pop Radio 1: 11 Guava Road Dub (LP - In The Kingdom Of Dub) Kingdom
*15 March 1982: Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*18 March 1982: The Alien Aborts (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*22 March 1982: Buck Rogers In The Black Hole (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*23 March 1982: Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*28 March 1982 (BFBS): Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*30 March 1982: The Princess Takes Her Revenge (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*14 April 1982 (BFBS): The Princess Takes Her Revenge (split album with Prince Jammy - Scientist And Jammy Strike Back!) Trojan TRLS 210
*20 September 1982: Lab Explosion (LP - Dub Duel) Hawkeye
*23 November 1982: Space Invaders Re-Group (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*30 November 1982: Under Surveillance (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*05 December 1982 (BFBS): Space Invaders Re-Group (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*05 December 1982 (BFBS): World Cup Squad Lick Their Wounds (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*07 December 1982: Vampire Initiative (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*13 December 1982: World Cup Squad Lick their Wounds (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
*29 December 1982 (with Yabby You & Michael Prophet): Sufferation & Starvation (LP - At The Dub Station (King Tubbys)) Vivian Jackson 
;1983
*03 January 1983: Burning Sun Dub (album - In The Kingdom Of Dub) Kingdom KVL 9004
*05 January 1983: Hail Him In Dub (LP - High Priest Of Dub) Kingdom
*18 January 1983: 11 Guava Road Dub (album - Scientist And The Kingdom Of Dub) Kingdom KVL 9004
*06 February 1983 (BFBS): Vampire Initiative (album - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man) Greensleeves GREL 46
;1984
*10 September 1984: Scientest Rock (split album with Peter Chemist - 1999 Dub) Heartbeat HB 027
;1996
*30 November 1996: Turning Dub (Various Artists CD - Nexus Dub )’ Tamoki Wambesi
;1999
*09 September 1999: King Tubby’s Answer (LP – X-Ray Music: A Blood & Fire Dub Directory) Blood & Fire
;2001
*14 August 2001: Step It Up (Dan Donovan remix) (LP - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire Chapter 2) Select Cuts
*09 September 2001 (BBC World Service): Step It Up (v/a album - Select Cuts From Blood & Fire (Chapter Two)) Select Cuts
;2002
*14 February 2002: The Mummy's Shroud (LP - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires) Greensleeves Records
;2003
*24 July 2003: Good Dub (LP - Haul And Pull Up Selecta (Heavy Weight Dancehall 1979-82) Trojan
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
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