Mad Professor is a leading dub music producer and engineer known for his original productions and remix work. He has contributed to or produced nearly 200 albums, collaborating with reggae artisits such as Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Sly and Robbie, Pato Banton, Jah Shaka and Horace Andy. He has also worked with non-reggae artists including Sade, The Orb, Massive Attack and the Beastie Boys.

Having emigrated from Guyana to London at the age of the 13, Mad Professor later set up his own recording studio in his Thornton Heath living room. His Dub Me Crazy series of albums, released in the early 1980s won the support of John Peel and gained regular airtime. He moved again, this time to West Norwood, where he set up his Ariwa Studio, which was at the time the largest black-owned studio complex in the UK, and teamed up with reggae legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry for the first time in 1989 for the album Mystic Warrior. Eventually, he began to experiment with electronic sounds and effects alongside the traditional instruments. Synthesized sounds began to find a place in his mixes. This experimentation caught the attention of artists outside of reggae and dub genres and led to Mad Professor's work with electronic artists, most notably Massive Attack.

Mad Professor 2011

Deptford Dub Club Presents Adrian Sherwood V's The Mad Professor

Saturday 7th May, 8pm - 1am £12/£10 Concessions

The Albany has a long history of presenting the best in roots, reggae and dub and remains a beacon of experimentation, celebrating the richness and diversity of South London culture. The Deptford Dub Club is a new event bringing the biggest names from the world of Dub to the Albany stage in a series of one-off concerts. The first of these sees a rare performance from Dub legend Adrian Sherwood joined live for the first time in years by the Godfather of the British Dub scene, The Mad Professor.

Dub has never been more influential, it is difficult to find two names more synonymous with the rise of British dub than Adrian Sherwood and Mad Professor. From the 70’s they have been hugely influential and remain at the forefront of today’s musical innovation.

Adrian Sherwood's love affair with Jamaican music began as a child growing up in the late '60s dancing to the sounds of Prince Buster emanating from the local west Indian club. Sherwood has spent the last few decades producing music under his own moniker and that of his classic On-U Sound label, stamping his big, fat, booming sonic trademark on hundreds of releases from African Headcharge and Dub Syndicate to Nine inch Nails and Primal Scream. So revolutionary is his knob twiddling that artists have been beating a more or less constant path to his Muswell Hill home where in a back room-come-state-of-the-art recording studio, Sherwood continues to break down boundaries between funk, reggae and dub.

When he was growing up, Neil Fraser didn't play football with other boys on his South London street. Instead, armed with an insatiable curiosity about electronics, this young boffin who had come from Guyana to London aged 12 was too busy dismantling and re-building the few items of communications equipment his parents possessed, earning him the nickname The Mad Professor. Later in life he would be instrumental in bringing British reggae into the digital age and he remains one of the UK’s most renowned reggae producers. Best known for his reworking of Massive Attack, he has produced over 200 albums since 1979 and collaborated with some of the biggest and most prestigious names in music.

The Deptford Dub Club is the result of a collaboration between The Albany and Croydon's Clocktower Arts in curating a series of unique concerts celebrating the very best in the world of dub, roots, reggae and lovers rock. This auspicious evening offers audiences and music lovers an opportunity to enjoy two musical legends in one of South East London’s most renowned and historic venues.

The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, London SE8 4AG Box Office 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk