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| quote: | 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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