From AllMusic:
Overton Brown was only 16 years old when producer/performer Errol “Don” Mais discovered and used the considerable talents of this adolescent dub whiz. Born in Kingston in 1960, the Scientist learned basic electronics from his TV repairman father, skills that made him very popular with the mobile DJs and their not-always-functioning sound systems. A friend suggested he visit the legendary dub producer/mixer King Tubby, not to remix records, but to get some transformers by which Scientist could build his own amplifiers. Soon the Scientist was an employee ofTubby’s, fixing transformers and televisions, when one day, after an animated conversation about mixing records,Tubby challenged the Scientist to take a shot at remixing a record…[read more]
