And Pato Banton...

Herein the Mad Professor captures & recaptures the wily Pato in a tremendous race to the fishnet.

For these albums, Mad Professor collaborated with singer Pato Banton, a reggae artist from England, using his lyrics over Mad Prof's Dubbed sounds. Captures is Banton's first album, the first of two albums he recorded with Mad Professor. The second was appropriately named Mad Professor Recaptures Pato Banton.

Mad Professor uses a lot of echoes in this music. He also makes changes to the frequency & pitch of the echo for some really great effects. Although the echoes are added in & the music is heavily Dubbed, most of Pato Banton's singing on the album is left alone. This keeps more of a reggae sound in the music than a lot of other Mad Professor Dub albums.

Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton features the likes of Black Steel, Preacher, Drumtan Ward, Robotiks, Bobby Valentino with Pato toasting & Mad Prof roasting.

 

Mad Professor & Pato Banton - Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton, Ariwa ARILP023, 1985.
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Side A -     
Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton
Gwarn! (Go On)
Nuff Kind of Dread

Side B -
King Step
Give Me Oil
My Opinion

 

 

 

 

Of course Pato smooth-talked his way out of Mad Professors grip. The Prof just bided his time & five years later he would recapute his foil one more time, once more with an incredible posse: Black Steel & Preacher still hard at it, joined up with Vin Gordon & Michael Rose on horns as well as Sandra Cross sharing some vocal duties with Pato.

 

 

Mad Professor & Pato Banton - Mad Professor Recapyures Pato Banton, Ariwa ARICD043, 1990.

Recapured
Riot
Satan
Tek Me Time
Mr. Singh
Worries
Live is One

 

 

 

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