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......
Jul-15-2008 22:07
Blake_Jarrell
Concentrate
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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.
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
Jul-16-2008 00:08
Domesticated
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Ido Ophir is the best sound engineer that I know of.
His work is unbelievable.
Jul-16-2008 00:10
Blake_Jarrell
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
quote:
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.
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.
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.
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Jul-16-2008 10:49
PETRAN
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
quote:
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)
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
