Martin Garrix

[nitz]

I also had to google Joe Ford as i had no idea who he was ( i know nothing of DnB), he also is some kinda of sound design mad man!

[LogiSpark]

If I had a picture of Joe Ford, I would put the words "Sound Design" everywhere I hear dnb quite a lot, but discovered him like two weeks ago.

[Murtagh]

Matt Fax, really? I was following him back when he was still called Mike Duz and his stuff was pretty bland back then. Now he's writing better melodies and all but the production doesn't really follow all that well imo...

Also he's an annoying little twat. Used to have him on facebook cause we started a collab once.

Awesome track in your sig dude.

I'm extremely unimpressed. The mix down is so weak in this track compared to the professional standard, if I, or about 50% of the people on this forum, had the kind of training and equipment he has had we'd be so much farther than this.

You don't need a lot of equipment to distort a vengeance percussion sample and add a sampled kick.
And that saw in the break is one of the easiest things to make:
Soundcloud (IIRC there's an flp in the description)

However his track with TV Noise is pretty cool. Tbh I'm not a huge fan of him, agree with the above posters. Madeon wrote his Raise your weapon when he was 16. A low age doesn't mean talent

[PillowFight]

I'm extremely unimpressed. The mix down is so weak in this track compared to the professional standard, if I, or about 50% of the people on this forum, had the kind of training and equipment he has had we'd be so much farther than this.

You don't need a lot of equipment to distort a vengeance percussion sample and add a sampled kick.
And that saw in the break is one of the easiest things to make:

I meant equipment as in nice monitoring (reference sound systems), midi controllers of all types, a desktop computer, or even a desk at all for that matter, not to mention CONSTANTLY being surrounded by a community of producers. Taking all of that into account, this song is really mediocre and it really bothers me personally that he just straight up stole a kick from another song. Designing a nice sounding kick is like a good majority of the sound design in house music nowadays anyway.

[RmoniK]

"Really mediocre".

Tell that to the beatport charts.

It's catchy, no point in questioning that. Is it revolutionary? Fuck no. Did he do a good job on it considering the genre? Yes. Can't argue with that. Were you expecting amazingly advanced production techniques in bigroom house?

[topmo3]

^ pretty much. listened to the track, yeah the melody was catchy and maybe kinda cool but the whole sound of the track was a bit off-putting, i'm not too much into that big room anthem EDM fist pumping shit

[rockonin]

Just listened to that Animal's track, don't get what hype is about. Yes, ok he is young but I didn't hear anything that's not been done before. But then again i'm into that sort of genre.

I also had to google Joe Ford as i had no idea who he was ( i know nothing of DnB), he also is some kinda of sound design mad man!

That Joe Ford has a few tracks on UKF Dubstep.

[PillowFight]

"Really mediocre".

Tell that to the beatport charts.

It's catchy, no point in questioning that. Is it revolutionary? Fuck no. Did he do a good job on it considering the genre? Yes. Can't argue with that. Were you expecting amazingly advanced production techniques in bigroom house?

I wasn't expecting anything amazing, I was just saying I don't really see the point in making a thread about him since he's not doing anything anybody else on the beatport top 10 isn't doing.

[wub]

"Really mediocre".

Tell that to the beatport charts.

It's catchy, no point in questioning that. Is it revolutionary? Fuck no. Did he do a good job on it considering the genre? Yes. Can't argue with that. Were you expecting amazingly advanced production techniques in bigroom house?

^ pretty much. listened to the track, yeah the melody was catchy and maybe kinda cool but the whole sound of the track was a bit off-putting, i'm not too much into that big room anthem EDM fist pumping shit

to both of these. Had a six hour drive up from the coast on Sunday, and at one point the playlist in the car was a folder of tunes I'd gotten specially to take to Ibiza the other week. Mostly 'EDM' stuff, some Knife Party in there, Hardwell, Krewella, Avicii, Calvin fucking Harris, Nicky Romero...not stuff I'd usually listen to at all.

But like any genre, when it's done well it works. EDM is the jumped up pop version of dance music, plain and simple. Same as guitar pop isn't for serious metal heads and MTV's latin selections wouldn't go down with serious fans of Tata Güines (Google him, man is a rhythm master)

The point re; the big room house sound is very valid indeed. In terms of house vs. EDM then the difference between this and this is obvious.

But taste is all subjective, if we all liked the same thing the world would be boring yadda yadda.