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I thought the production value for Paul van Dyk's In Between was something noticeable. Granted, only a few songs on that album really pop out, with the rest being somewhat bland electronic / trance / pop / progressive filler, but overall I like the album.

Also BT is implied when concerning production value. srsly

Marc Mitchell.

His attention to everything is his wokrs is astonding.

Noticables.

Human Movement - "Eterna's Flight"
Orkidea feat. Marc Mitchell - "Eternal Love"
Marillion and Positive Light - "Tales from the Engine Room"

I HAS PRODUCED TRANCE. CALL ME ARMIN VAN COCK PLEASE.

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Originally posted by Cobalt You'll laugh, but what comes to mind after BT and Way Out West is William Orbit's work on Ray of Light. Some others drifting around in my memory, but I can't place a name.

That was a great album.

I would say fluke albums have some of the best production value.

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Originally posted by couch-potato I thought the production value for Paul van Dyk's In Between was something noticeable. Granted, only a few songs on that album really pop out, with the rest being somewhat bland electronic / trance / pop / progressive filler, but overall I like the album. Also BT is implied when concerning production value. srsly

If you really want to look at the best of Paul van Dyk or BT

Paul van Dyk - Out there and Back (2000) (all produced by PVD, chill album which builds up to some groovy mainfloor tracks, every track on there is mint)
Paul van Dyk - Seven Ways (1997) - shows alot of Paul van Dyk's skill with trance tracks in the late 1990s, every track is produced by PVD, 2 CDs, very layered. Tracks like Seven Ways, Forbidden Fruit, Home, Beautiful Place, Words.

Of course the "Poltics of Dancing" series was great but those weren't production. "Global" was essentially a greatest hits album of previous work. I didn't like "Reflections" much and haven't liked anything since that. Out there and Back was PVD's latest real masterpiece of production work, in my opinion. Most of his efforts lately have been focused on his live DJ sets and work with performing live. He doesn't spend much time in the studio anymore, and it shows. I see him more as a DJ now than a producer, his production work has fallen off the roof as I see it.

As for BT's if you can grab a copy of "ESCM" from 1997, I think that's his best work, all BT production tracks, it's brilliant. I think far better than Movement in Still Life. Still has the Organic Trance feel to the whole thing. His new work "This Binary Universe" is brilliant in itself but has a different sound completely than what he used to produce.

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Originally posted by Clovis Konrad Black has some of the most technically sound and beautiful production in techno imo.

White Cigarettes

Villalobos has solid production skills. (808 the Bassqueen, Easy Lee)
Radio Slave

Whoever produced this gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E23zz4O8Jo

Massive Attack's Mezzanine album has absolutely fantastic production work.

Every track is special. So dark and gloomy, and dirty as fuck.

Amon Tobin.

Every track is more special. More dark and gloomy, and dirtier as fuck

i know i know i know.......but i just couldnt find the thread for this kind of question lol......


but does anyone know the name of the first song on deadmau5's website i just think its a killer......

Telefon Tel Aviv pretty much surpass everything else i've heard in both production and musical quality. It also helps that they are from New Orleans

Take this protools session for example:



Thats about 1:30 of a 7 minute song

All of their stutter editing is done by hand, meticulously, because they claim using plugins to do this stuff is for pussies.

Their new album will pretty much secure their place at the top of the list of Certified Badasses.


as for others:

Eric Prydz - set the bar for mixdown quality in EDM for a while, although I felt pjanoo and f12 were lacking on the sound quality front compared to other releases. would like to see an interview or screenshot/session of what he does in logic, but that will probably never happen.

Jerome Isma-Ae - has passed up Eric Prydz in sound quality/mixdown etc IMO. He has been a sound engineer since the age of 15.

Michael Cassette - not really up there on the sound quality list, but their knack for writing melodies and creating good moods and atmosphere with simple chord progressions has me interested in everything they do.

Way Out West - nick and jody are the sample masters. everything they do is sampled, and you would have no idea if they didnt admit it. love all of their stuff.

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Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell Take this protools session for example:

it looks impressive but it really depends on where you place your values



i personally think it's more ingenious to subvert and employ technology in ways that are productive themselves - so that the production method and the final result are inextricably linked.


doing everything by hand like that seems kind of disingenuous somehow and also maybe not as ingenious.

this kind of production leads to overproduction and hyperarticulation rather than clarity of concept. it's all about effects and not substance

Ido Ophir is the best sound engineer that I know of.

His work is unbelievable.

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Originally posted by nefardec it looks impressive but it really depends on where you place your values i personally think it's more ingenious to subvert and employ technology in ways that are productive themselves - so that the production method and the final result are inextricably linked. doing everything by hand like that seems kind of disingenuous somehow and also maybe not as ingenious. this kind of production leads to overproduction and hyperarticulation rather than clarity of concept. it's all about effects and not substance

as i stated in my post im obviously biased that i think these guys are the best thing to ever grace electronic music and there is pretty much nothing that is going to sway my opinion on their excessively overproduced music. i am obsessed and my favorite band is better than your favorite band.

Laurent Garnier- The Cloud Making Machine

Mum- Go go smear the poison

2 awesome albums. nuff said.

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Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell Way Out West - nick and jody are the sample masters. everything they do is sampled, and you would have no idea if they didnt admit it. love all of their stuff.

I'm intrigued. Link to interview etc?

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Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell as i stated in my post im obviously biased that i think these guys are the best thing to ever grace electronic music and there is pretty much nothing that is going to sway my opinion on their excessively overproduced music. i am obsessed and my favorite band is better than your favorite band.

haha i realized that with your first post. i'm not trying to convince you of anything, just using your example to make a point.

Martin Buttrich

Oliver Lieb.

L.S.G. - Rendezvous In Outer Space
L.S.G. - Volume Two
L.S.G. - The Black Album
L.S.G. - Into Deep
L.S.G. - The Hive

One of the best series of alltimes!

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Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell as i stated in my post im obviously biased that i think these guys are the best thing to ever grace electronic music and there is pretty much nothing that is going to sway my opinion on their excessively overproduced music. i am obsessed and my favorite band is better than your favorite band.

Telefon Tel Aviv make proper, complex music, in contrast to names such as radio slave and villalobos FFS. Ok, they make fancy clubby techno but lets be serious now, they are no way close in terms of musicianship and production to acts like Telefon Tel Aviv.



Since we are talking about electronic music in general and not only EDM, the obvious examples would be the usual IDM/Ambient suspects (in addition to Telefon Tel Aviv)


Bola
Apparat
Boards of Canada
Proem
Autechre
Aphex Twin
Future Sound of London (althoug more of complex "sampletronica" than actual music heh)
Ulrich Schnauss
Jon Hopkins
Susumu Yokota
World's End Girlfriend
Tim Hecker
Loscil
Arovane
Arms and Sleepers
Nathan Fake
Fennesz
Deaf Center
William Basinski
The World On Higher Downs
Four Tet
Murcof
BT (TBU era)
Orbital (Snivilization and In Sides era)
etc.


special mention goes to Kashiwa Daisuke for blending glitchy electronic music with neo-classical (taking what Aphex Twin has done before and developing it to perfection)


http://www.myspace.com/kashiwadaisuke





another amazing (more electronica/ambient) one is

Access To Arasaka:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cf...riendID=5365723

Anything that Breakbot touches. The guy has the Midas Touch. I have yet to hear a mediocre production by him. Bass guitar skills rival Fred Falke, and his sampling is so spot on that it seems almost trivial to do anything more to his tracks. Makes producing quality electronic music look like cake; his tracks flow so effortlessly. Not to mention that if you don't feel good listening to his songs, there is no doubt in my mind that there is something wrong with you.
Chock full of funk and feel good vibes, I highly recommend the following:
DatA - Aerius Light (Breakbot remix)
Pacific! - Runway to Elsewhere (Breakbot remix)
Pacific! - Hold Me (Breakbot remix)
Breakbot - Iron Zombie
PNAU - Baby (Breakbot remix)
Breakbot - Summer Party
Breakbot - Chelsea Inn
Breakbot - Please Don't

myspace.com/dothefunkybot

So many, but I'm surprised that noone's mentioned Dousk yet.

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