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)

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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!

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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.

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01. Faithless
02. Underworld
03. Daft Punk
04. Kraftwerk
05. Chemical Brothers
06. Tiësto
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!

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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.

Where's your list?

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Originally posted by RebeL9 an EDM list without Oliver Lieb is like fucking without desire.

Which means: Still very nice overall - and at the end just as good.

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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...

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Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears."

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 Hütter, 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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quote:

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.

yeah those guys would definitely be on there...just hard to remember them all in the moment...plus its 2:30am and i need to go to bed hahaha

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.