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Hopeton Overton Brown<\/b>\u00a0(born 18 April 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican\u00a0recording engineer\u00a0and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing\u00a0dub music\u00a0as “Scientist”. A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of\u00a0King Tubby\u00a0(Osbourne Ruddock), Scientist’s contemporaries include several figures who, working at King Tubby’s studio, had helped pioneer the genre in the 1970s: Ruddock,\u00a0Bunny Lee,\u00a0Philip Smart,\u00a0Pat Kelly\u00a0and\u00a0Prince Jammy.<\/p>\n

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Hopeton Overton Brown\u00a0(born 18 April 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican\u00a0recording engineer\u00a0and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing\u00a0dub music\u00a0as “Scientist”. A prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of\u00a0King Tubby\u00a0(Osbourne Ruddock), Scientist’s contemporaries include several figures who, working at King Tubby’s studio, had helped pioneer the genre in the 1970s: Ruddock,\u00a0Bunny Lee,\u00a0Philip Smart,\u00a0Pat Kelly\u00a0and\u00a0Prince Jammy. Read More…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-stars","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions\/11515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}