A inventive recordings by Mad Prof (born Neil Fraser) demonstrate the mastery of electronic gadgetry. Working from either his have studios, Mad Prof has overseen extra than both hundred albums including ground-innovative remixes for Massive Attack, Sade, and Pato Banton.

Natural inside Guyana, Fraser earned the Mad Prof tag from either his childhood fascination by owning electronics. At the age of nine or even tenner he built a radio from scratch.

Moving to London at the age of baker's dozen, Mad Prof continued to experiment by using electronics. He bought the semi-semipro reel-to-reel tape-recorder in 1975, but was unable to record within sync. This prompted him to acquire additional & further devices. Per ensuing month, he got begun experimenting by having dubbing.

Ariwa Studio

Across a years, Mad Prof's studio, which he known as "Ariwa", when a Nigerian word for sound, has continued to develop. Originally inside the to the south London home inside 1979, it moved to a tremendously big space in the Peckham ghetto the as punishment month. When you took a quartet years that a studio remained at this page, Mad Prof detected that a on the face of it insecure location dollars and cents him tremendously of his patronage. Fallowing a brief go to to the original home, the studio relocated to its present places within Whitehorse Lane.

A Ariwa web site states that a building from either which Mad Prof today operates includes a "Ariwa Sound" & "Are We Mad?" studios, also when "two rehearsal rooms, one Preprogramming suite, and a dancing room".

Recordings

Mad Prof has worked by owning a brobdingnagian total of reggae creative person two from either the UK & Jamaica. These include Jah Shaka, Pato Banton, Johnny Clarke, Lee Perry and Horace Andy. His musical genre keep close at hand involved roots reggae, dub, and lovers rock.

Mad Prof is possibly better known for his dub albums, which include Xii installments of the Dub Us Crazy series & Little phoebe albums under a Black Liberation Dub banner.

He has as well remixed non-reggae creative person like Massive Attack (whose Protection he dubbed into No Protection) and punk band The Ruts. A Ariwa internet site lists collaborations by owning The Orb, KLF, UB40, Jamiroquai, The Beastie Boys and Rancid.

He continues to release records & perform survive everthing across the world.