Scientist

Scientist is a Jamaican producer and dub reggae figure whose 1981 album Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires is recreated in full in this live show at Band On The Wall, Manchester.

Scientist helped develop the dub style in the late 1970s at Studio One, where a protégé of King Tubby, gaining a reputation for a distinctive approach to mixing. He later became principal engineer at Channel One and released a run of albums in the early 1980s, among them Scientist meets the Space Invaders, Scientific Dub and Scientist Encounters Pac-Man.

The evening centres on the 1981 record Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires, which is performed in full, with further material also listed as part of the show. Five songs from that album were used as playlist tracks on the K-Jah radio station in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto 3.