Let's talk about your early interest in electronics.
In the first half of this feature length two-part interview Angus Taylor speaks to the producer, engineer, remixer, and pioneering businessman about his musical madness and the method therein. Live shows are now predominantly his thing - and he is gearing up for the second edition of his Back To Africa festival in Gambia, starting on January 25th 2013. While most reggae labels are lucky to last a decade the Guyanese-born Londoner has been running his imprint his way since 1979, steering it through changing fashions, four different locations, and the increasingly moribund state of the record business. After a few minutes it is time to enter the main studio of this labyrinthine complex - partly modelled on Berry Gordy's Hitsville USA - where the Professor is sitting, peering quizzically from behind his trademark spectacles bearing one round and one square lens. Fraser's son Joe buzzes the door open with the instruction to 'wait in the room on your immediate left' decorated with signed posters from visiting artists like Luciano and Stevie Face. 'Visitors by appointment only' says the sign on the imposing entrance to South London's Ariwa studios - home of Neil Fraser, better known as the Mad Professor.
