Scientific Dub

by Scientist

Scientific Dub cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Clocktower
  • Country: Jamaica
  • Length: 33:54
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Showcasing Hopeton Brown's masterful studio wizardry, 'Scientific Dub' radically deconstructs reggae rhythms through heavy delay, cavernous reverb, and fragmented instrumental drops. The project stands as a high-water mark for the era's sound system culture, reflecting the producer's unparalleled ability to manipulate space and frequency.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Drum Song (3:44)
  2. Keep a good Dub Rubbing (4:11)
  3. Taxi to Baltimore (4:01)
  4. Satta Dread (2:29)
  5. Every Dub Shall Scrub (3:41)
  6. Blacka Shade of Dub (2:42)
  7. Bad Days Dub (4:16)
  8. East of Scientist Corner (3:04)
  9. Just say Dub (3:30)
  10. Words of Dub (2:12)

Credits

  • Aston "Family Man" Barrett - bass, rhythm guitar
  • Earl "Bagga" Walker - bass
  • Michael Dread - bass
  • Robbie Shakespeare - bass
  • Jamaal Pete - cover
  • Carlton "Santa" Davis - drums
  • Sly Dunbar - drums
  • Winston Wright - electric piano, organ

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