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Scientist

Overton Brown (born 18 April 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican recording engineer and producer who rose to prominence in the 1980s as the dub pioneer Scientist. Raised by a father who repaired televisions and radios, Brown began building amplifiers and later bought transformers from King Tubby’s studio, where he first mixed dub versions of Studio One tracks for Don Mais’s Roots Tradition label in the mid‑1970s. His technical skill earned him the nickname “Scientist” from Bunny Lee, and he left Tubby’s at the decade’s end to become the principal engineer at Channel One, gai...