I also did a somewhat more recent interview with Read Junk. Here's an old interview with Adam Monkey from Read Magazine that covers my days at Moon and 7 Wonders.
I also put together these compilations for Moon: the first three Skarmageddons Ska United: A Global Ska Sampler Skank Down Under This Are Moon Ska I, II, and III and Moonshot! I filmed and edited this Toasters video for $2,500, which made its debut on MTV's 120 Minutes. During 1999/2000, I ran 7 Wonders of the World Music, the first digital download-only ska label that was too ahead of the curve for its own good (RIP). Prior to this reissue, the LP version of this album was extremely hard to find, so make sure to pick up a copy now, while you can.įor most of the 1990s, I was the promotions, marketing, production guy for Moon Records (RIP). No Protection is probably one of greatest modern dub records-and it's certainly Mad Professor's masterpiece. And it sounds just as brilliant today as it did twenty-two years ago. With titles like "Radiation Ruling the Nation," "Trinity Dub," "Cool Monsoon," and "Backward Sucking" (from the original "Heat Miser"), I envisioned a nuclear attack (of which there is "No Protection" from), radioactive fallout, and utter devastation that there was no coming back from. There's an intriguing blend of uncertainty, menace, paranoia, and naked vulnerability that runs through all of the dubs (what's lurking in all the dark, silent space between the music?)-like living under the threat of some looming apocalypse. When I first listened to No Protection, I didn't have the original songs to compare the dubs to-but it didn't matter. The story, I later learned, was that trip-hoppers Massive Attack had asked Mad Professor to remix a track off their somewhat underwhelming second album Protection-and they were so pleased with the results that they arranged for him to create dub mix of the entire album, which completely transformed the source material and became an unqualified hit. They highly recommended it (might have even played a track or two for me) and I bought it on the spot. So back in '95, when I stopped by (the now long gone) Jammyland one day and saw this new CD from Mad Professor and Massive Attack (who I really didn't know much about other that they had collaborated with Horace Andy), I was really curious about it and asked whomever was behind the counter.
However it transpired, I quickly acquired most of the Mad Professor/Lee Perry albums, including Black Ark Experryments and Mystic Warrior, as well as many of Mad Professor's dub albums, most notably the magnificent Anti-Racist Dub Broadcast(which featured Rico Rodriguez on t-bone!). Perhaps it was a review in Tower Records' "Pulse" magazine or the 1995 issue #2 of the Beastie Boys' "Grand Royale" magazine that included a 24-page feature on Lee "Scratch" Perry with an extensive evaluation of his discography, which covered several incredible collaborations between Perry and the Professor. Mad Professor No Protection (heavyweight vinyl LP, Virgin Records, 2016 reissue originally released in 1995 on Wild Bunch Records): I don't quite remember how I was first turned onto the extraordinary dub master Mad Professor.
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