The pinnacle of dubstep production

obiwan · Post by **obiwan** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:36 pm

Rottan- Live Flute version

showguns · Post by **showguns** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:46 am

toasty
shackleton
oris jay

shards · Post by **shards** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:06 am

I can't believe that none of you have wigged out to the dynamic bassline work in Luke Envoy's Hotflush release?

Toasty's drums & Burial's edits round out my top three.

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:04 am

toasty, vex'd, gravious, mrk1

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:05 pm

thc wrote:Coki

musty dust · Post by **musty dust** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:15 pm

2000F wrote:Toasty Boy, S&D, Dub Child, Zed Bias, El-B

lycaon_prod · Post by **lycaon_prod** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:29 pm

Shards wrote:I can't believe that none of you have wigged out to the dynamic bassline work in Luke Envoy's Hotflush release?

Toasty's drums & Burial's edits round out my top three.

cant believe that either. 2nded

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:52 pm

thing is you always hear mastered versions of tracks which have given muchos love by a professional mastering engineer. It doesn;t particularly matter at all, but i would be interested to hear how good the original wav mixdowns were pre-mastering. I spend alot of time trying to get my tunes sounding as good as released ones (fruitlesssly i may add) and sometimes i wonder if i shouldn;t just spend some time at Transition seeing what they can do with my stuff as it is.

the answer is probably not much.

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:09 pm

The tune that it took me longest to get my head around is called "Back 2 Chill' by Goth Trad. After many blazing sessions with the song on repeat, I still dont get all of wat's going on. Everything is perfect, the percusion, beat pattern, strings & bass. http://www.myspace.com/gothtrad

autonomic · Post by **autonomic** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:33 am

sometimes i find it really refreshing to put on some under-produced grime (especially true of older tracks) where everything's not perfectly eq'd and mixed down. that fixation on the perfect sound can really drain the soul out of a track. it's like it's in a display case with a velvet rope around it. so i guess i have favourite producers but i don't get off too much on spectral perfection.

that said, qawaali is the track i put on when i want to show off my stereo.

clarkycatdealer · Post by **clarkycatdealer** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:43 am

what about horsepower?? benny ill is a sick producer...

d1 for sure, has a really tight crisp sound, real solid low end too... great knack for melody

the entire dmz crew as everyone else has said...

kode9 picks and creates the most interesting sounds to my ears and does not repeat himself much... such variety - fukkaz, fat larry's rmx , curious,konfusion... so many tunes... everything hes done is spot on to me.

the early eski stuff...

ghost

but i think basicchannel/r&s have the most amazing sounds i've ever heard frankly.

sinc_vision · Post by **sinc_vision** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:27 am

Kode 9 - Fat Larry`s Skank Remix

levels levels levels.

narcossist · Post by **narcossist** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:56 pm

autonomic wrote:sometimes i find it really refreshing to put on some under-produced grime (especially true of older tracks) where everything's not perfectly eq'd and mixed down. that fixation on the perfect sound can really drain the soul out of a track. it's like it's in a display case with a velvet rope around it. so i guess i have favourite producers but i don't get off too much on spectral perfection.

completely agreed man.

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:14 pm

narcossist wrote:
autonomic wrote:sometimes i find it really refreshing to put on some under-produced grime (especially true of older tracks) where everything's not perfectly eq'd and mixed down. that fixation on the perfect sound can really drain the soul out of a track. it's like it's in a display case with a velvet rope around it. so i guess i have favourite producers but i don't get off too much on spectral perfection.

completely agreed man.

really great way to put that. sometimes super strict production values make a song cold...

sorry for the random bump, just really liked that autonomic quote

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:20 pm

fractal wrote:
narcossist wrote:
autonomic wrote:sometimes i find it really refreshing to put on some under-produced grime (especially true of older tracks) where everything's not perfectly eq'd and mixed down. that fixation on the perfect sound can really drain the soul out of a track. it's like it's in a display case with a velvet rope around it. so i guess i have favourite producers but i don't get off too much on spectral perfection.

completely agreed man.
really great way to put that. sometimes super strict production values make a song cold...

sorry for the random bump, just really liked that autonomic quote

In total agreement on this. Sometimes I crave that "amateur" (bad choice of words, I know) sound. Like, you can have your super slick, neuro/dungeon sounds, but sometimes I just need to listen to stuff like Benga & Skream - The Judgement or something similar, stuff like XTC/Ruff Sqwad - Funktions On The Low. Perfect.

Sonika · Post by **Sonika** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:30 pm

Icicle's productions are top notch, technically

Awesome masterclass too

untightled · Post by **untightled** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:32 pm

solphy wrote:yep, 'mud' has the biggest, baddest bass i ever heard

loefah = king of production

joeki · Post by **joeki** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:35 pm

I agree, point in case:

All Politics aside (we all know what kind of an asshole this figure is/was), this sounds great because it actually sounds recorded in a shack in the Norwegian woods with basic equipment and broken guitars. It adds a rawness and authenticity. Slick production is nice and all, but sometimes you need that rawness, that physicality, that pureness.

ultraspatial · Post by **ultraspatial** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:35 pm

garethom wrote:
fractal wrote:
narcossist wrote:
autonomic wrote:sometimes i find it really refreshing to put on some under-produced grime (especially true of older tracks) where everything's not perfectly eq'd and mixed down. that fixation on the perfect sound can really drain the soul out of a track. it's like it's in a display case with a velvet rope around it. so i guess i have favourite producers but i don't get off too much on spectral perfection.

completely agreed man.
really great way to put that. sometimes super strict production values make a song cold...

sorry for the random bump, just really liked that autonomic quote
In total agreement on this. Sometimes I crave that "amateur" (bad choice of words, I know) sound. Like, you can have your super slick, neuro/dungeon sounds, but sometimes I just need to listen to stuff like Benga & Skream - The Judgement or something similar, stuff like XTC/Ruff Sqwad - Funktions On The Low. Perfect.

Wiley's devil mixes

ultraspatial · Post by **ultraspatial** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:37 pm

joeki wrote:I agree, point in case:

All Politics aside (we all know what kind of an asshole this figure is/was), this sounds great because it actually sounds recorded in a shack in the Norwegian woods with basic equipment and broken guitars. It adds a rawness and authenticity. Slick production is nice and all, but sometimes you need that rawness, that physicality, that pureness.

Mayhem's De Mysteriis... has a similar vibe

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