Philip Smart

Engineer, producer and studio owner, born 9 April 1960 Kingston, Jamaica - died 25 Feb. 2014, NY.
He started his career as an engineer at [a=King Tubby]'s Studio in Kingston, but moved to New York in 1976. Then he opened the [l=HC&F Studio] in the early 1980s, in partnership with his brother-in-law . Many of the post "Sleng Teng" computer generated riddims were laid here, as were many of the hits that broke dancehall into the music mainstream, such as [a=Shabba Ranks]"Mr Loverman", [a=Super Cat (2)]'s "Don Dada" and of course [a=Shaggy]'s version of "Oh Carolina". He also ran the labels [l=Eclipse Records (9)] and [l=Tan-Yah].