Scientist Meets the Space Invaders is a 1981 album

Album

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 by the dub music

Dub music

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ian Scientist

Scientist (musician)

Scientist, born Hopeton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960 , was a protégé of King Tubby , one of the originators of dub music.-Biography:...

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The album was produced by Mikey "Roots" Scott & Linval Thompson

Linval Thompson

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. The recording was done at Channel One Studios

Channel One Studios

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 backed by the Roots Radics

Roots Radics

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, and mixed at King Tubby's. The recording was by Stanley "Barnabas" Bryan, Anthony "Crucial Bunny" Graham and Maxwell "Maxie" Livington Smith. The cover artwork is by Tony McDermott.

The tracks that formed the basis of the album were Thompson productions including Wayne Wade

Wayne Wade

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's "Poor and Humble" ("Cloning Process"), and Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne

Johnny Osbourne is a popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer, who rose to success in the late 1970s and mid 1980s. His album Truths and Rights was a notable roots reggae success, and featured "Jah Promise" and the album's title track, "Truths and Rights"...

's "Kiss Somebody" ("Quasar").

Track listing

All tracks composed by Linval Thompson

1. "Beam Down" - 3:20
2. "Red Shift" - 3:33
3. "Time Warp" - 2:51
4. "Cloning Process" - 4:16
5. "Pulsar" - 3:10
6. "Laser Attack" - 3:45
7. "Dematerialise" - 2:48
8. "Fission" - 2:35
9. "Super Nova Explosion" - 2:34
10. "Quasar" - 2:58

Personnel

• Carlton "Santa" Davis & Lincoln "Style" Scott - drums
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• Errol "Flabba" Holt
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   - Bass
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• Noel "Sowell" Bailey - Guitar
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• Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
  Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
  Eric Lamont , better known as Bingy Bunny, was a Jamaican guitarist and singer who recorded with the Roots Radics and The Morwells as well as recording solo material...
  
   - Guitar
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• Wycliffe "Steelie" Johnson
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   & Winston Wright - Organ
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• Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson
  Gladstone Anderson
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   - Piano
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• Christopher "Sky Juice" Blake & Noel "Skully" Simms
  Noel Simms
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   - percussion
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