For me its Alan Fitzpatrick, great sense of space in his tracks, doesnt use too many elements but the groove is always interesting
Great mixing of kick/bass/sub - everything seems to sit so well together, like its not forced, not too loud in your face but still substantial enough to be felt and be at the front of the mix
StoryTeller, taste differs ofcourse, but for me, this is exactly the kind of fluffy e that killed trance. It's that gay type of trance with no balls. It sounds like wet farts.... Would take Deadmau5, Mark Knight or Wolfgang Gartner anytime. And if it realy needs to be trance, then Simon Patterson or Paul Miller, awesome melodies and drive, while good depth in the mix.
sako487
what storyteller said, all those guys have the tightest sound IMO
Stu Cox
Just tried to have a think about this and was surprised to find that very few seemed to stand out.
My record box at the moment is full of tracks by artists I've never played or even heard of before a lot of the time, only a few artists have made their way in there several times in the last year or so. So few artists manage to consistently impress me - which I think is because they might do one track which has exactly the edge I'm looking for, then everything after that, certainly for a while, just doesn't quite cut it.
Zombie Nation, Kiko and Alex Gopher have all featured a few times in the last year, but I'm not sure if I'd say any of them have particularly incredible production skills... it's more for their 'song writing' if you can call it that: good rhythms and good basslines.
FM Radio Gods have done some great stuff recently which is really well put together and varies from big room driving sounds down to some fairly chilled stuff, but all with dancefloor appeal.
Edit: got it - Pig & Dan. Wicked noises, great beats and consistently chunky as :D
sako487
Just to add, blizzard, neelix, deadmau5, wolfgang garter, and nero(dubstep)..
All I can think of at the moment but for sure those are very good producers
tehlord
Neelix, all day long.
Storyteller
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Originally posted by Raphie
StoryTeller, taste differs ofcourse, but for me, this is exactly the kind of fluffy e that killed trance. It's that gay type of trance with no balls. It sounds like wet farts.... Would take Deadmau5, Mark Knight or Wolfgang Gartner anytime. And if it realy needs to be trance, then Simon Patterson or Paul Miller, awesome melodies and drive, while good depth in the mix.
I'd say it's closer to what trance originated from than what nowadays is called trance. I hate today's sound opposed to the old classics. Ironically this guy does Deadmau5-alike and Wolgang Gartner style tracks too.
Apart from that also pop-ish and rock tracks or piano-only tracks. I don't like saying these things, but this guy is the most talented producer I've come across in a long time. He has a more versatile portfolio than just about any dance producer I've seen around.
edit: Oh and this never killed trance. Trance committed a succesful suicide. Super saw era anyone? Now where's my milk?
Storyteller
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Originally posted by sako487
what storyteller said, all those guys have the tightest sound IMO
And all those guys are in fact based around 1 person :-)
While we're at it. Skrillex is quite talented too :toocool:
