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threnody wrote:Sully is my number 1 producer.

Oyaas astounds me!

Also really feeling Shonky's latest output and same goes with metalbox....

Just listening to Bunzero's show and Djuna's tracks on there are too messy as well!

safe thren!!
im seriously feeling
thrneody, shonky, reso, tonian (get to know!), elemental, snd, toasty, d1...
longvoy, haha... another release is dfeinately way overdue...

Ory wrote:Overall, I'd say it's Mala, Shackleton, Burial and Toasty Boy.

That'd be my top four, too.

benga.

his tunes are so well made and have so many aspects to them plus when
im listening to sets and hear a heavy tune i dont know it normally always
turns out to be benga. he just has ridiculous consistency.

mala as well for similar reasons.

Tes La Rok is making sum belters at the moment as well.

Reso, Blodied Blade, MBP, Sully, D1, S&D......................... the list goes on and on.

jakes

Mala, Geiom, Forensix, Jack Sparrow, Ramadanman, Burial, Kode 9, Loefah, Slaughter Mob, El-B and the Ghost team, Benny Ill and the Horsepower crew.

Special mentions for Parson - good variety of styles and far more experimental than most dubstep producers, really pushing the boundaries; Threnody for some quality engineering and dark soundscape business (these would make amazing soundtrack material - really evocative);and Metalboxproducts for that wayward lurchstep and injecting some humour into an often po-faced genre

I've probably forgotten a few so I'll add them as I remember them. To be honest though, there's a whole load of producers that do a few good tunes then a few ok-ish ones so I'd rather big up the most consistent studioheads.

And really we're talking about the best composers not producers here aren't we - good production in itself isn't something that makes me buy records

i agree with shonky its not all about production its gotta be musical and well thought out as well as having killer sound design and production

producers making my ears come at the moment

vaccine, iTAL tEK, pinch, boxcutter

looking forward to more releases from this lot!

Shonky wrote: And really we're talking about the best composers not producers here aren't we - good production in itself isn't something that makes me buy records

Thinking about this the other day. Production is just one element of a track isn't. I've heard bare tracks that would be slayed for crap production but, the actual track it's self is really good. I don't really subscribe to the idea of good production = good track. More often than not, tracks that just rely on good produced tend to leave me a little cold.

Lets face it. The mid 70's was over populated with music that was "well produced" and the vast majority of it was the most tedious, po faced shit you could ever listen to.

Shonky wrote:(these would make amazing soundtrack material - really evocative)

yeh alot of the top dubstep producers' work are actually good pieces of music in their own right, not just something confined to the dance floor... thats whats so good about the sound, it can be put into lots of different contexts, even after the teenage clubbing years lol

HEADHUNTER!!!
boh boh boh!

trigga!!!:6:

Mala
MRK1
D1
Digital Mystikz
Kode 9

reso wrote:Toasty, Elemental, S&D, Emalkay, The Others, Vaccine, Luke Longvoy, Burial. Not Rusko. Defintely not Rusko

Emalkay!! Caspa, Elemental, Toasty and Kode 9. I would say Reso but i haven`t heard any of his new beats for bloody ages *cough**cough**ahem*

metalboxproducts wrote:

Shonky wrote: And really we're talking about the best composers not producers here aren't we - good production in itself isn't something that makes me buy records

Thinking about this the other day. Production is just one element of a track isn't. I've heard bare tracks that would be slayed for crap production but, the actual track it's self is really good. I don't really subscribe to the idea of good production = good track. More often than not, tracks that just rely on good produced tend to leave me a little cold.

Lets face it. The mid 70's was over populated with music that was "well produced" and the vast majority of it was the most tedious, po faced shit you could ever listen to.

Bruv, don't you mean the mid 80's music with its BIG reverb on the snares and toms was over produced. The mid 70's (IMO) is like the goldern age of music with all that amazing underground funk, great pop and who can forget all that classic American soul?

Clarify me mate.

Yep the 80's was the really shit bit for over-production. Remember there was a Def Leppard album where the producer insisted they played each note in a chord individually and then double track that.

Still sounded shite obviously being Def Leppard

mala
skream
distance
rusko
matty g (next few tracks coming are badman)
loefah
kode 9
burial
juju
cotti & clouekid (for stuff yet to come...big thing)
pinch

distance
toasty
digital mystiks
emalkay

smudge wrote:

metalboxproducts wrote:

Shonky wrote: And really we're talking about the best composers not producers here aren't we - good production in itself isn't something that makes me buy records

Thinking about this the other day. Production is just one element of a track isn't. I've heard bare tracks that would be slayed for crap production but, the actual track it's self is really good. I don't really subscribe to the idea of good production = good track. More often than not, tracks that just rely on good produced tend to leave me a little cold.

Lets face it. The mid 70's was over populated with music that was "well produced" and the vast majority of it was the most tedious, po faced shit you could ever listen to.

Bruv, don't you mean the mid 80's music with its BIG reverb on the snares and toms was over produced. The mid 70's (IMO) is like the goldern age of music with all that amazing underground funk, great pop and who can forget all that classic American soul?

Clarify me mate.

I suppose mid 70's through to the mid 80's yes. But it started with the like of Fleetwood mac, Floyd, E,L,P, Genusis the whole Prog rock gang who forgot about music and just liked to twiddle an album out. Not included in this list are CAN who did the same studio twiddle but still made hard tracks.

hopper wrote:I think the three dmz boys are on another level

AMEN

theres just so many. i take it everyone thats been mentioned so far has a my space with lots of tunes to listen to. really need to put more names to the tunes i hear on the mixes on this forum.

Mala and Skream.

Boxcutter, Scuba, Burial, Toasty, Vex'd, Gravious, and Reso rate highly.