Hopeton Brown was still a teenager when King Tubby hired him, and within a few years he had inherited the throne. His 1980 debut earns the title on the sleeve: recorded with Sly and Robbie at Channel One and mixed at Tubby's, it runs hypnotic basslines, reverb-soaked keyboards and start-stop rhythms that keep pulling the floor away. "Steppers" opens with the phrasing of someone who already knew exactly what he was doing, and "Scientific" stretches the guitars into spaced-out texture and muted tension. A 2026 repress from Superior Viaduct.