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Scientist / Overton Brown

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Hopeton Overton Brown, who learned at King Tubby's elbow as a teenager and was mixing his own dub sets before he was twenty. His records for Greensleeves — with their comic-book sleeves pitting him against vampires, space invaders and the like — carried dub to a young audience abroad who had never heard of Waterhouse. He has spent much of his later career pressing publicly for the credit and royalties owed to engineers.

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Dub engineers are creative authors

Dub mixing and versioning can be documented as performance, production and authorship when releases and histories support the role.

Stance: technical labour vs musical performance