I've got his collabo w/Horace Andy, Rewired for Dub, as well as The Ultimate Experience in Dub (IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD PROFESSOR) and No Protection: Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor. Any other must-haves?
ILM HIVEMIND, I CHOOSE YOU!
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)
The cartoon cover Dub Me Crazy series albums from the early-mid 80s are well regarded. I have DMC 3: African Connection (1983) and DMC 5: Who Knows the Secret of the Mad Professor (1985), and enjoy them. DMC 10: Psychedelic Dub (1990) was too far into the digital dancehall sound for my tastes.
― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)
so OTM. anything that's bright blue & yellow is amazing. i've got Dub Me Crazy 1 and it's one of my all time fave dub albums.
Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton is up there too.
Mad Professor vs Jah Shaka is good but not my fave.
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)
Can't find online my Option magazine interview/feature on Mad Professor from way back when in the '80s. I wonder how it reads now. I've still got the issue around somewhere I think.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:48 (seventeen years ago)
OMG Option. Thanks for the reminder!
― u s steel, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 17:56 (seventeen years ago)
DMC 5 bumpin on a warm spring evening...aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Friday, 24 April 2009 21:04 (seventeen years ago)
How the fuck did I miss this?!?!? Damn it to hell! The Mad Professor on The Repair Shop getting Lee Perry's Mu-Tron Phaser repaired! I wonder if he cried at the end?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 11:53 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU5bKp88km4
Oh cool.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 February 2024 18:51 (two years ago)
It’s on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tw5b/the-repair-shop-series-12-episode-12 scroll to around 43’00 for the reveal. Spoiler, he doesn’t cry.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 24 February 2024 19:22 (two years ago)
i happened to see it while in the barbers a while back. so good!
in related news, his son is killing it. Joe Ariwa rules.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:31 (two years ago)
Someday I will find my old Option magazine piece on him that I referenced up above, and will scan it and put it online.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2024 20:21 (two years ago)
quite a strange release i picked up today - dubby experimental post-punk, feels more akin to on-u sound sort of stuff than any mad professor i can think of. but yeah, recorded at ariwa, may 1984. anyone know anything about it or want to make a guess at who the personnel are? could 'sandra' be sandra cross? not even sure it's any good tbh, but it is fascinating...
https://www.discogs.com/release/5429781-The-Mastership-Alive-In-Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdswZSpIBE
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 9 November 2024 22:42 (one year ago)
Hoffman forums has a Crucial Reggae thread that has a lot of knowledgeable dudes, a couple that run reggae labels. If anyone can give you more info, it’s them. It’s a corner of Hoffman that is pretty chill.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 9 November 2024 23:10 (one year ago)
No Protection: Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor
― dow, Sunday, 10 November 2024 00:33 (one year ago)
thanks for the suggestion cow_art, will scoot over there on the next rainy day!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 November 2024 20:51 (one year ago)
Mad Professor is supposed to be dj'ing at a small Washington DC club Thursday November 14 on a long bill with an experimental arty hiphop duo and other djs. I might go, although I bet he will be on later than I want most likely.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 02:29 (one year ago)
Mad Professor is 3 feet away from me setting up for a gig here in dc before a small crowd at this place that usually has techno.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 November 2024 02:50 (one year ago)
A nice hour and a half set . Some of it was reggae standards like “Murder She Wrote” but he mixed and dubbed them up nice on the board he was using
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 November 2024 05:33 (one year ago)
Sounds perfect to me. I saw Adrian Sherwood do something similar a couple of years back.
― mmmm, Friday, 15 November 2024 11:34 (one year ago)
I definitely enjoyed it ( although I guess some who know his whole catalogue better than I might have wanted some other more obscure song choices
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 November 2024 19:53 (one year ago)
Ha! Exactly as I felt about Adrian Sherwood. It was good to see him having fun though. I guess it’s a hard position to play as you don’t really know your audience at this stage.
― mmmm, Friday, 15 November 2024 20:42 (one year ago)
I saw him last weekend in a church in Hastings and it was glorious. Lots of dancing, lots of favourites. Live trombone, which the Professor of course looped and delayed. His warmup act was a very young guy - I don't think it was his son. He was very good too.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 July 2025 09:51 (ten months ago)