MAD PROFESSOR'S QUALITY AND QUANTITY

Dubroom Online - February 2 2009


"MAD PROFESSOR'S QUALITY AND QUANTITY" (WEBMASTER'S COLUMN)

WWW, February 2 2009 - Quality and Quantity, there seems to be not so much of a different between these two words in the dictionary of the Mad Professor.

Next to 10's of crucial Mad Professor DUB albums, Ariwa Studio's also released and continues to release countless of vocal albums as well as singles.

As we continue to focus on Mad Professor's extensive oeuvre in this period, Neil Fraser's contribution to what really is more than just a sub-genre of Reggae becomes more and more apparent.

Much of the material may be decades old, but they are more advanced than many contemporary DUB releases. Every time I listen to these albums, as I do in this current times, I hear yet another thing.

One Love, Give Thanks,
Messian Dread (Dubroom Webmaster)

The above column is the personal opinnion of the Webmaster and does not neccesarily reflect the contents of the Dubroom Website and/or Message Boards and/or Weblogs.

ITEMS FOR THIS EDITION:

MAD PROFESSOR - WHO KNOWS THE SECRET OF THE MASTER TAPE? (DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW)



It was the year 1985 and lots of people thought how DUB have had it's longest time. After all, the flood of DUB albums from Jamaica was no longer a flood.

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JOHN PILGER: PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS, CENSORSHIP AND RESISTING THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (BABYLON OBSERVER VIDEO REVIEW)



WWW, January 2009 - He's been at just about every place where a major war went on: John Pilger, Australian journalist and film maker. And he's talking about it, too!

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MAD PROFESSOR - WHO KNOWS THE SECRET OF THE MASTERTAPE: DUB YOU CRAZY, PART 5

MAD PROFESSOR - WHO KNOWS THE SECRET OF THE MASTERTAPE: DUB YOU CRAZY, PART 5
DUBROOM ALBUM REVIEW





It was the year 1985 and lots of people thought how DUB have had it's longest time. After all, the flood of DUB albums from Jamaica was no longer a flood.

They were wrong and they could have known if they would have been looking to the UK and more specifically, to the Ariwa Studio's!

Neil Fraser sat in his studio. He was working on allready the fifth episode of his -now classic- DUB ME CRAZY series. One DUB Album after other was released, and people could hear -or I should say: experience- how just about every new kind technology was used to create some of the weirdest DUB you could not even think of.

Like a true Mad Professor, his obvious genius goes together with an equally obvious "madness". His works are from a lonely quality, that is to say: simply unmatched. The more you listen, the more you hear just what he was actually able to do in a time wherein most people thought of computers and digital technology as something threatening.

No, it's not for nothing that the Dubroom has such an enormous attention for the DUB albums of Neil Fraser, a.k.a. the Mad Professor. He knows The Secret Of The Master Tape!

JOHN PILGER: PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS, CENSORSHIP AND RESISTING THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

JOHN PILGER: PROPAGANDA, THE PRESS, CENSORSHIP AND RESISTING THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
BABYLON OBSERVER VIDEO REVIEW



WWW, January 2009 - He's been at just about every place where a major war went on: John Pilger, Australian journalist and film maker. And he's talking about it, too!

In this video, an episode of Democracy Now, we can see Pilger as he gave a speech in Chicago in 2007. He takes us back to the second world war, straight up to the current times as he anticipates the fact that Obama replaced George Bush as president of the USA.

Pilger is an independent journalist and film maker from Australia, and he has been a witness to the many crimes committed by the powerful. He saw the suffering in Vietnam, in Eastern Europe during communist dictatorship, and he sees it now in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He knows a lot about the role of the media, the role of the secret services and propaganda, and he's not afraid to speak openly about it.

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