Scotty Hard

The Science of Sesh – From Iceland to Africa” is a retrospective compilation of Scotty Hard production and remix work from more than the past 20 years (1993 to 2016). The album features rare and unreleased collaborations with the likes of Antipop Consortium, New Kingdom, Lady Bug Mecca, Emily Wells, Rubble Kings, Metabolics, Mauritsstadt Dub, Stan Douglas (Suspiria) and Medeski. Original artwork was created by Kidacne. Scotty’s two closest Brazilian friends and musical collaborators were the impetuous for this release, who wanted to release a limited-edition vinyl album of some of Scotty’s unreleased and “under released” tracks that showcased his beat making and remixing achievements, which have been too often overlooked and overwhelmed by his production and mixing output. Scotty send a bunch of tracks, which came up a ten song album that not only traces almost 25 years of music making in New York and around the world, but somehow became a cohesive statement of an artist continually growing & creating. The Wire magazine called it “a thrilling collection of timelessly mindbending music.” Who is Charles Scott Harding aka Scotty Hard? First of all, Scotty Hard is a musician, producer, beatmaker, sound engineer and sound scientist, who left his footprint on early 90’s New York hip hop. In Vancouver in the 80’s during the burgeoning alternative scene Scotty was playing guitar in a bunch of bands and writing music.

His passion for recording and hip hop led him to New York City at the end of the 1980’s where he landed right in the epicentre of hip hop production at Calliope Studios and Chung King House of Metal. It was here he worked with a roll-call of hip hop’s seminal artists including Ultramagnetic MC’s, De la Soul, The Jungle Brothers, Gangstarr, Brand Nubian, Black Sheep, DJ Mark the 45 King, The Stereo MC’s, PM Dawn and many more. After working on ‘Supernatural’ with The Stereo MC’s, he introduced the fledgling young group New Kingdom to Gee St Records, and for the first time shifted from a focus on engineering to production.