Mad Professor

Born Neil Fraser in Georgetown, Guyana, and later based in London, Mad Professor emerged in the early 1980s on the British dub scene with an approach that extended Jamaican roots reggae while opening it to electronic textures, lovers rock and some post‑punk influences. From Ariwa, his label and studio in South London, he developed a sound focused on bass, space, resonance effects and the gradual transformation of voices and rhythms—an aesthetic documented early on in the Dub Me Crazy series begun in 1982. Mad Professor’s trajectory spans sound‑system culture, reggae production and remixing, with work for artists such as Lee 'Scratch' Perry and a dialogue with trip‑hop through No Protection (1995), his reworking of Massive Attack’s album Protection. As a producer, recording engineer and live musician, he has supported many performers from the British reggae scene and maintained, over several decades, a continuous interchange between studio work, dub versions and live performances across Europe and the UK.