What tracks/records released over the last year or two have sounded the best?

- LOOKING FOR records that are balanced, transparent, tight, punchy and dynamic.

- NOT LOOKING FOR muddy low-end, over-loud mids or harsh highs.

The type of sound you long to produce, the tracks you A/B to get the best from your mixes!

i have one for nearly every key and they are ALWAYS changing, i think the longest one (that is longest in use) to date is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uB-pDEzfQ

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 i have one for nearly every key and they are ALWAYS changing, i think the longest one (that is longest in use) to date is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uB-pDEzfQ

Wow, that is really well mixed.

Any track by Chris Reece/Passenger 10/Daniel Portman/Dinka/EDX/Rino Cabrera/Leventina/Helvetic Nerds (etc etc).





Passenger 10 - Blue Harbour (Album Showreel1) by chrisreece

Arguably the most talented an versatile producer EDM has to offer right now. The examples above are just a few I could think of, but there's many many more.

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Anthony Mea - Get It On (Storyteller Remix)

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If less is more think about how much more more would be. -Frasier

Any Rob Babicz song ever made. Everything is so clear.

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And his track Velvet in your arms is my favorite track of his but there is no video only zippyshare links

Quivver - Brothers and sisters



Almost any Kasey Taylor track is right up my alley

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Originally posted by Storyteller Any track by Chris Reece/Passenger 10/Daniel Portman/Dinka/EDX/Rino Cabrera/Leventina/Helvetic Nerds (etc etc).

Thanks to you I've just been smitten with EDX - not heard of him until now - just bought Embrace. Just soft and summery mixes, with bags of space and air, nice.

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Listening to this track completely flipped my perception of engineering and mixing especially the space/headroom elements.

Ferdy with Matt van Wyk - Dust Sucker [Electronic Elements]

It's not your floorfiller top10 plate, but i listen to it in admiration, it truly has a stand alone sound that i attribute to the mix engineer. And the arrangement? The track builds, for the entire opening body, the entire breakdown, all on the root note comfortably.
The chords change right before the main drop, once. one chord progression played ONCE. its huge. "Dynamic" falls short describing this track. this track helped an amateur like me understand less is more.


p.s. i know you said house and trance tracks (and im a recovering trance purist,) but when it comes to engineering and sound quality, nothing stands up to Pendulum. give their dubstep track "Set me on Fire" a try.

Storyteller beat me to it!

Chris Reece really has set a new standard. I almost burnt my music setup when I found out he was dinka, EDX and Daniel Portman.

On the same tip with really well produced melodic prog:






And I know it's off Genre but the production on this is just outstanding.....I have a feeling it was produced on far fields as it just sounds incredible on big speakers...(honestly, don't bother listening on shitty headphones)