Clive Chin

Clive Chin (born 14 May 1954 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Hakka Chinese Jamaican record producer whose work includes recordings by the Wailers, Dennis Brown, Lee Perry and Black Uhuru, among others. Chin was a pioneer in the establishment of dub as a standalone musical form.^[1] He is the eldest son of Vincent "Randy" Chin.^[2]

Biography

Randy's record shop

He began working at Randy's Record Store, his father's business, as a teenager, and helped make the associated studio, Randy's Studio 17, one of the most important Jamaican studios of the early 1970s.^[1]

Chin's first major commercial success was "Java", an international hit by Augustus Pablo.^[3] He had further local hits with Dennis Brown's "Cheater" and Junior Byles' "King of Babylon" and produced Pablo's debut album, This Is Augustus Pablo.^[4] Chin produced the Java Java Dub album in 1973, which he claims was the first ever dub album.^[5] Further local hits followed with Carl Malcolm's "Miss Wire Waist" and "Fattie Bum Bum", which, with the help of Jonathan King, became a UK chart hit in 1975, reaching number 8.^[4]

After his family business moved to New York City, Chin spent some fifteen years running a Jamaican restaurant in Queens. He began producing again in 1998.^[1][4] In 2007, Chin started a VP Records imprint, 17 North Parade, to reissue some of the historic Randy's releases.^[6]