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Your top 30-100 artists of all time ...
Hehe. For anyone who likes doing their top track charts, lets see some charts here - your favourite artists/producers of all-time.
- pleave avoid multiple artist aliases, place others in brackets
beside the most notable alias of that artist in your opinion.
Rank Artists based on productions, mixing, overall quality of
music, favourite tracks, number of favourite tracks, influence on you in the music scene, etc.
...
Please do not confuse "artist/producer" with "DJ". DJ Skills should
compliment, not shape the artist in your list.
It was easier for me to do top 100 artists that top 100 tracks, since it is a lot of work going through my long collection.
MY TOP 100 LIST (as of August 2005):
1. Orbital
2. Juan Atkins (aka Model 500, Infiniti)
3. Paul Van Dyk
4. Man With No Name
5. Underground Resistance (aka Mad Mike)
6. Kylie Minogue
7. Vangelis
8. Underworld
9. Derrick May (aka Rhythim Is Rhythim)
10. Armin Van Buuren (aka Gaia)
11. Patrick Cowley
12. Kraftwerk
13. X-Dream
14. Dance 2 Trance
15. Envio
16. Carl Craig (aka Psyche, BFC, Paperclip People)
17. MFG
18. Olive
19. CJ Bolland
20. Astral Projection
21. Future Sound Of London
22. Ferry Corsten
23. Nick Holder
24. LTJ Bukem
25. U96
26. Igor Tal'kov
27. Crystal Method
28. Union Jack
29. M.I.K.E. (aka Push, Plastic Boy, Blackmaster, Solar Factor)
30. Max Graham
31. Armand Van Helden
32. Expose
33. Infinity Project
34. Tiesto
35. MK (Marc Kinchen)
36. The Orb
37. trance [] control
38. Pet Shop Boys
39. Moby (aka Voodoo Child)
40. Art Of Noise
41. Culture Beat
42. Bananarama
43. Chemical Brothers (before 2003)
44. Mr. Fingers (aka Larry Heard)
45. Prodigy (music released before 2000)
46. Stickmen, The [House] = Greg Zwarich & Paul Mintsoulis
47. Joey Beltram
48. BT (music released before 2000)
49. Octave One
50. Chic
51. Oliver Lieb (aka Spicelab, L.S.G.)
52. Depeche Mode
53. Total Eclipse
54. 808 State
55. Lisa Stansfield
56. Paul Jacobs (PJ)
57. Jean Michel Jarre
58. Daft Punk
59. Mauro Picotto
60. Inner City (Kevin Saunderson)
61. DJ T
62. Groove Armada
63. Nu NRG
64. Fatboy Slim
65. Filo & Peri
66. Locust (MARK VAN HOEN)
67. Enigma
68. Antiloop
69. Madonna (mainly 1980s)
70. Alisha
71. Robbie Rivera
72. Rollergirl
73. Juno Reactor
74. Terrence Parker
75. Stacey Pullen (aka Silent Phase)
76. Delerium
77. Hallucinogen
78. Capetown
79. Space Brothers
80. ATB
81. Signum
82. Infected Mushroom
83. Alcazar
84. Jamiroquai
85. Blake Baxter
86. Royksopp
87. Bardeux
88. Leftfield
89. Dave Clarke
90. 2 Unlimited
91. Sasha
92. Pink Floyd
93. Theo Parrish
94. Romanthony
95. Ozgur Can
96. Tangerine Dream
97. Kenny G
98. Aux 88
99. Jeff Mills
100. Real McCoy / Rockell (tie)
MY TOP 10 LIST (as of August 2005):
1. Shpongle
2. FSOL
3. Juno Reactor
4. Phutureprimitive
5. BT
6. Chicane
7. Orbital
8. Sasha
9. Astral Projection
10. Ott
Forget it, I'm not making a longer list. I don't even know if this is correct, for god's sake! 
Hehe, I have 7 of your top 10 in my top 100, plus Chicane just barely missed the cut ... at #102. 
Yes, a lot of work. Took me about 6 hours.
01. Faithless
02. Underworld
03. Daft Punk
04. Kraftwerk
05. Chemical Brothers
06. Ti�sto
07. M.I.K.E.
08. Vangelis
09. Chicane
10. Moby
11. Jeff Mills
12. Jean-Michel Jarre
13. Ferry Corsten
14. The Prodigy
15. Mylo
16. Way Out West
17. Delerium
18. Royksopp
19. Octave One
20. The Thrillseekers
this is very hard!
an EDM list without Oliver Lieb is like fucking without desire.
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 an EDM list without Oliver Lieb is like fucking without desire. |
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 an EDM list without Oliver Lieb is like fucking without desire. |
in more or less random order:
*Way Out West
*John Graham
*Marc Mitchell
*Ben Folds
*Tori Amos
*Stevie Nicks
*Sarah McLachlan
*Pink Floyd
*Simon & Garfunkel
*Bob Marley
*Keane
*Bon Jovi
*Eric Prydz
*Brian McKnight
*Sarah Brightman
*Depeche Mode
*Heather Nova
*Dido
*Brothers In Rhythm
*Sasha
*Charlie May
*Nick Muir
*U.N.K.L.E.
*The Crystal Method
*Max Graham
*Deepsky
*Pole Folder
*Grayarea
*Rabbit In The Moon
*Global Communication
*Madonna
*Faithless
*Delerium
*BT
*Hybrid
*The Who
*Billy Joel
*Whiteney Houston
*Notorious B.I.G.
*Talib Kweli
*The Beatles
*PQM
*Zero7
*Missy Elliott
*Alicia Keys
*Mariah Carey
*The Cure
*The Postal Service
*U2
*Usher
very very random list...
i'm going to try and stick within the realm of EDM for this one so...
hard to rank the production skills across such a wide range of genres, but i'm gonna have to make it something like this...people i think are the most talented in the business...really too hard to place in any kind of definite order, but i tried...
01. Charlie May
02. Paul & Phil Hartnoll (Orbital)
03. Richard D James (Aphex Twin)
04. Oliver Lieb
05. Jean Michel Jarre
06. Ulrich Schnauss
07. Evanghelos Papathanassiou (Vangelis)
08. Brian Transeau
09. Andrew Weatherhall (The Sabres Of Paradise etc)
10. Sven Vath
11. Peter Kuhlmann (Pete Namlook)
12. Brian Dougans & Garry Cobain (The Future Sound Of London etc)
13. Mike Truman, Chris Healings & Lee Mullins (Hybrid)
14. Neil Barnes, Paul Daley (Leftfield)
15. Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, & Darren Emerson (Underworld)
16. Laurent Veronnez (Airwave etc)
17. Andy Gray
18. Richard Hall (Moby)
19. Alex Dijksterhuis (Jamez etc)
20. CJ Bolland
21. Toby Marks (Banco de Gaia)
22. Liam Howlett, Keith Flint, Keith Palmer & Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy)
23. Shem McCauley & Simon Rogers (Slacker etc)
24. Matthias Hoffmann & Ralf Hildenbeutel (Cygnus X)
25. Tom Middleton & Mark Pritchard (Global Communication etc)
26. Rolf Ellmer & Markus Loffel (Jam & Spoon etc)
27. Stephen Jones & Ricky Simmonds (The Space Brothers etc)
28. Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk etc)
29. Nick Warren & Jody Westernoff (Way Out West)
30. James Holden
31. Nick Bracegirdle (Chicame)
32. Simon Noble & Rowan Blades (Breeder etc)
33. Simon Berry (Art Of Trance etc)
34. Nick Muir & John Digweed (Bedrock)
35. Mike Wells (Force Mass Motion)
36. Jimmy Cauty (The KLF w/ Bill Drummond, The Orb w/ Alex Paterson)
37. Joshua Winkleman (Josh Wink)
38. Dave & Brendan Webster (Transa)
39. John Graham (Quivver etc)
40. Steve Osborne
41. Graham Massey, Andrew Barker & Darren Partington (808 State)
42. Pete Heller
43. Ralph Armand Beck (Taucher etc)
44. Oliver Bondzio & Ramon Zenker (Hardfloor)
45. Steve McClure & David Christophere (Rabbit In The Moon)
46. Stuart McMillan & Orde Meikle (Slam)
47. Jamie Stevens, Frank Xavier & Manuel Sharrad (Infusion)
48. J Scott Giaquinta & Jason Blum (Deepsky)
49. Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons (The Chemical Brothers)
50. Jochem George Paap (Speedy J)
51. Mike Dierickx (M.I.K.E.)
52. Stephen Vrolijk (Stef etc)
53. Florian Schneider-Esleben, Ralf H�tter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert (Kraftwerk)
54. Ian Wilkie
55. Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier (Fluke)
56. Scott Hardkiss (God Within etc)
57. Ralf Beck & Andre Nalin (Nalin & Kane)
58. Armand van Helden
59. Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim)
60. Mark Knight & Martijn Ten Velden
ok i'm stopping at 60 because i'm tired hehehe...i'm sure i've left out a ton 
that list is really really good Floorfiller. Although I would throw in Martin Freeland (Man With No Name) and Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor).
Both are true pioneers and have done lots and lots for the EDM scene.
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 that list is really really good Floorfiller. Although I would throw in Martin Freeland (Man With No Name) and Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor). Both are true pioneers and have done lots and lots for the EDM scene. |
Just curious Jason, why did you not put Sasha on there?
Do you credit Charlie May and others for his named productions or is Sasha and his productions just not worthy of being in your top 60?
Not offended by it or anything, it's just weird because it seems like you would put him on it when you've got Bedrock, Charlie and the like in there.
Could only be bothered with 20. So here's my top 20 EDM artists...
01. Les Rythmes Digitales / Jacques Lu Cont
02. Felix Da Housecat / Thee Madkatt Courtship
03. Farley JackMaster Funk
04. James Lavelle
05. Joey Beltram
06. Thomas Bangalter
07. Marshall Jefferson
08. Fischerspooner
09. Way Out West
10. Leftfield
11. Chicane
12. The Hacker
13. DJ Shadow
14. Luke Chable
15. Futureshock
16. Cosmos
17. Basement Jaxx
18. BT / Kaistar
19. Bedrock
20. Tiga
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| Originally posted by Floorfiller 01. Charlie May |
In no order...
Carl A. Finlow
Oliver Lieb
Simon Posford
Jonathon Saul Kane
Jedi Knights
Dynamix II
Herbie Hancock
Mijk Van Dijk
Larry Heard
Squarepusher
Juan Atkins
Derrick May
Kevin Saunderson
MAS 2008
Roger Troutman
Cosmic Baby
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Freddy Fresh
Gerald Donald
Afrika Bambaataa
Steve "Silk" Hurley
Jori Hulkkonen
Eat Static
The Shamen
Mantronix
Orbital
BT
Yello
Miguel Fierro
Bernard Parmegiani
Oskar Sala
Mixmaster Morris
Carl Craig
Giorgio Moroder
Marc Acardipane
Susumu Yokota
Anthony Rother
Richard D. James
Hashim
Ludovic Navarre
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| Originally posted by Aiwendil In no order... Juan Atkins Derrick May Kevin Saunderson |
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 that list is really really good Floorfiller. Although I would throw in Martin Freeland (Man With No Name) and Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor). Both are true pioneers and have done lots and lots for the EDM scene. |
Some of them kinda ruin my list, but I decided to be honest and listed all of the artists for all the genres I like overall. A bit embarrassing 
In no particular order:
1/ James Holden
2/ Way Out West (Nick Warren & Jody Westernoff)
3/ The Police (Gordon Matthew Sumner, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland)
4/ Carl Craig
5/ St-Germain (Ludovic Navarre)
6/ Laurent Garnier
7/ Juno Reactor (Ben Watkins, Stephen Holweck, Johann Bley, Mike Maguire, Jens Waldenback)
8/ Sasha
9/ Charlie May
10/ The Prodigy (Liam Howlett, Keith Flint, Keith "Keeti" Palmer & Leeroy Thornhill)
11/ Bj�rk
12/ Etienne de Cr�cy
13/ Bugge Wesseltoft
14/ Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel Homem de Christo)
15/ Ashley Casselle
16/ Fatboyslim (Norman Cook)
17/ Oliver Lieb
18/ Herbie Hancock
19/ Nick Muir & John Digweed (Bedrock)
20/ Moby
21/ James Lavelle
22/ Alex Gopher
23/ Frou Frou
24/ Signum
25/ Ulrich Schnauss
26/ Laurent V�ronnez
27/ Terry Lee Brown Jr
28/ Slam
29/ Death in Vegas (Richard Fearless, Tim Holmes)
30/ Apollo 440 (Trevor Gray, Howard Grey ,Noko=
31/ Deep Forest
32/ E.S. Posthumus
33/ Taucher
34/ Paul van Dyk
35/ Luke Chable
36/ Hybrid (Mike Truman, Chris Healings & Lee Mullins)
37/ Infusion
38/ FSOL (Brian Dougans & Garry Cobain)
39/ Junkie XL
40/ Tim Fretwell
41/ Nathan Fake
42/ Gorillaz (Damon Albarn, Dan The Automator, Danger Mouse, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Miho Hatori)
43/ Lamb (Andy Barlow & Louise Rhodes)
44/ Timo Maas
45/ Dave Clarke
46/ Max Graham
47/ Shiloh (the Moreh Bros)
48/ Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones & John Bonham)
49/ Conjure One (Rhys Fulber)
50/ New Order (Bernard Dicken, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris & Phil Cunningham)
51/ Cesaria Evora
52/ William Orbit
53/ Starecase (Paul Crossman (aka General Midi) & Alex Watson)
54/ Benz & MD
55/ Danny Howells
56/ Stef Vrolijk
57/ Madoka (Mark Venneri)
58/ Spooky (Charlie May & Duncan Forbes)
59/ Fluke (Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier)
60/ Pascal Feos (aka Sonic Infusion especially)
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| Originally posted by djmetatron Just curious Jason, why did you not put Sasha on there? Do you credit Charlie May and others for his named productions or is Sasha and his productions just not worthy of being in your top 60? Not offended by it or anything, it's just weird because it seems like you would put him on it when you've got Bedrock, Charlie and the like in there. |
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| Originally posted by Floorfiller yes and no... i do give charlie may and now that i think about it Junkie XL would also make my list a lot of credit for sasha's productions. i mean sasha's most famous production Xpander used one of charlie may's melodies from a potential spooky project. there is no doubt that sasha would be number one on my dj list, but i in a list like this its more important to list people who have dedicated the majority of their career's to production and have excelled at it. not to say i don't think sasha has a large part to do in the creative design of his tunes...i think he does, but i'd still give a ton of credit to the people engineering and producing it. i mean even some of the groups i have listed up there...i'd probably give Liam Howlett most of the credit for The Prodigy, Nick Muir most of the credit for Bedrock, etc...i guess i just kinda see it as these are the people that never get the credit for their work and i wanted to make sure that they all got places... ps. i just realised how many people i've left off hahaa...obviously William Orbit and a lot of other people on people's lists would make it into mine if i did it in more than an hour or so hehehe |
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| Originally posted by Floorfiller yes and no... i do give charlie may and now that i think about it Junkie XL would also make my list a lot of credit for sasha's productions. i mean sasha's most famous production Xpander used one of charlie may's melodies from a potential spooky project. there is no doubt that sasha would be number one on my dj list, but i in a list like this its more important to list people who have dedicated the majority of their career's to production and have excelled at it. not to say i don't think sasha has a large part to do in the creative design of his tunes...i think he does, but i'd still give a ton of credit to the people engineering and producing it. i mean even some of the groups i have listed up there...i'd probably give Liam Howlett most of the credit for The Prodigy, Nick Muir most of the credit for Bedrock, etc...i guess i just kinda see it as these are the people that never get the credit for their work and i wanted to make sure that they all got places... ps. i just realised how many people i've left off hahaa...obviously William Orbit and a lot of other people on people's lists would make it into mine if i did it in more than an hour or so hehehe |
If I were to honestly sit down and make a list of my top 30 artists of all-time, there probably wouldn't be too many electronic artists in there.
Here's my top 10
1 Tiesto
2 Paul van Dyk
3 Ferry Corsten
4 Perry O Neil
5 Sander Kleinenberg
6 Westbam
7 Sasha
8 Vincent de Moor
9 Armin
10 Niklas Harding
Oh, of all kinds of music? I thought it was only EDM. I have Hancock, but I did it for his drum machine funk. I don't really know much about non-edm anyway, and I don't see why it would be better to list non-edm artists, at least in place of a lot of the ones I put. Guys who invented genres, guys who even maybe invented EDM. Guys who revived genres from the dead. Guys who make more than five genres or subgenres of EDM. And yes some who just are my favorite. Well I like them all.
1. Oliver Lieb (LSG, Ambush, Spicelab)
2. Brian Transeau
3. John Graham (Quivver, Stage One, Skanna, Stoneproof)
4. Barry Jamieson (Evolution, Bluefish, Mana, Arrakis)
5. Terry Lee Brown Junior
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