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Who are your favorite producers from any genre? What album in particular? (Jazz, Rock, Hip Hop, Techno)

― iiitone (King Kobra), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitchell Froom is a genius. His work with Crowded House, Elvis Costello and Suzanne Vega was all really brilliant.

Right now, nobody is better than Nigel Godrich.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

...at cutting and pasting in pro tools and using reverb plug-ins

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically, "cutting and pasting in pro tools and using reverb plug-ins" (plus other related technical stuff) is the producer's job

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

GODRICH DISS. - dont forget hes good at adding bleeps and sweeps and random twinkling garbage (ok computer, terror twilight)

yo (heart) dan nakamura. he can produce any band, any style and make it work.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Schneider TM

― man, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfred Lion of Blue Note fame has a wealth of classics to his name as does Teo Macero (Miles Davis, Monk, Mingus).

As far as Hip Hop, which is a completely different approach...I'm inspired by Jay Dilla's approach.

― iiitone (King Kobra), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

alan moulder used to produce all my favorite records, that's the last time i noticed who produced a record.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

In regards to people currently making records, I'm a big fan of the sound that Jim Eno and Britt Daniel have on the last two Spoon albums and the Sally Crewe record from this year. It's nice and spare and clean, and the drums always have a nice sound to them. I'm pretty sure it all comes down to good mic'ing for them, but I'm no expert.

I'm pretty sure the "random twinkling garbage" is Malkmus's doing, by the way. Speaking of which, I really like his production on the last two Jicks albums and Slanted & Enchanted.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Lee Perry
Marley Marl
RZA
Holger Czukay

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides Froom and Godrich, I have also been fond of these throughout history:

George Martin (obviously...)
Gary Usher
Mack
Jeff Lynne
Alan Parsons
Todd Rundgren
Bob Ezrin
Brian Eno
Trevor Horn
Martin Hannett
Alex Sadkin
Daniel Miller
Nile Rodgers
Daniel Lanois
Brad Jones

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Wot no Rick Rubin?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Dowd

― iiitone (King Kobra), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hugh Padgham

― bahtology, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Foster, Matthew Smith, and that dude who was in Monsterland and Pernice Brothers whose name has slipped my mind

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Thom Monahan!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hugh Pagdam I second. I respect producers who are able to do great sonic work within a lot of different style and genres, without necessarily having to stamp the record with something that makes you hear who has produced the record. Hugh Pagdam was such a producer.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Diamond

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

uwe schmidt (aka atom heart, aka lassigue bendthaus, et al.)
jocham paap (aka speedy j)
the bomb squad
dj premier and the guru

― newnumbertwo, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, I really like his production on the last two Jicks albums and Slanted & Enchanted.

gary young manned the boards on slanted and enchanted, definitely the most bafflingly mis-labeled "lo-fi" record of its ilk.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. De'

― mayor motorcade (mayor motorcade), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Boyd - the early Fairport albums

― pete s, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

GURU? he's only produced one track on all their albums, plus one on Group Home's first album. Are you referring to the mind-blowing production on Jazzmatazz? ;)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Shel Talmy

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

GLyn Johns for his work with the Who (Who's Next), The Faces (A Nod...), Rolling Stones (Exile...). He did some early Steve Miller records I think.

Of course, he is responsible for most of the Eagles records as well, so...

― Will (will), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

and I've always wondered if Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker) is any relation to Glyn.

production on Heartbreaker = killer
despite my feelings about Adams.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur Russell owns this one for me.

Also very fond of Trevor Horn and his disciple Steve Lipson, though not of all the records they've been involved with

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The title "Producer" might make them uncomfortable, but you gotta give it up for Doug Easley & Davis McCain-

Pavement, Oblivians, Grifters, Guided by Voices, Fuck, The Amps, Alex Chilton, John Spencer Blues Explosion, etc...

― Will (will), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

FLOOD!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicholas Vernhes.

― Famous Athlete, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I respect producers who are able to do great sonic work within a lot of different style and genres

Melodic pop and melodic rock, then.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

John Cale; Horses. ENO; Remain in Light.

― Skinny (Skinny), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Meek for his brash pop sensibility.

George Martin Seconded: his subtle use of reverb etc...compare the quality of Hard Day's Night with any other pop at the time. The White album's production is utterly timeless - it could have been recorded yesterday.

Alfred Lion also seconded - crystal clarity, remarkably early on.

Chris Thomas, for Jet Black's drum sound...

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

gary young manned the boards on slanted and enchanted, definitely the most bafflingly mis-labeled "lo-fi" record of its ilk.

I knew that Gary co-produced - I was always under the impression that SM and Gary did it together, with SM/Spiral making the creative decisions and Gary falling into more of an engineer roll.

Damn straight on that last point, though. S+E may not exactly be super hi-fi, but lo-fi is certainly not the word for it.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

David Briggs
Tom Wilson
Jimmy Miller

― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

and I've always wondered if Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker) is any relation to Glyn

As far as I know Ethan is his son.

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Quincy Jones, for producing/co-producing 2 of my life-favourite records.
Cornelius, who's awe-inspiring and too versatile. Special shout to Jin Yoshida of Salon Music, who produced for his old band, Flipper's Guitar.
Timbaland, for being suprising and for changing my approach to hip hop and r'n'b for the better.
DJ Jason aka Mad Doctor X aka London Funk Allstars, one of the only producers who never makes me regret my instrumental hip hop phase.
The Dust Brothers, for making another 2 of my favourite records, for managing to be more than the sum of their parts and for having more 'moreness' than any of their imitators could achieve ever.
Richard X. From a production perspective, his debut was so fuckin' assured. And he truly gets 80s pop and r'n'b.
Basement Jaxx, who'll really get better with time.
Prince Paul, who could be unpredictable when I didn't expect it.
Prince. Dare I say 'genius'?
Rick Rubin.
The Neptunes, though sometime, it's never that wholehearted an endorsement. But you can't fault the volume of work.

I also enjoyed listening to Rundgren and Van Dyke Parks, plus I owe it to myself to peep a bunch of Beach Boys albums one day soon, plus I have a mini-list of 'damn, that song had some shit' producers like Rockwilder, Arif Mardin and Aphex Twin.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Premier
Dan the Automator

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin in metal
Dirk "M.I.K.E." Dierickx in dance

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I relistened to Deltron 3030 today, and Automator is my boy again (well, he still was on account on being the glue that held Gorillaz together). Kutmaster Kurt still did my fave cut on Dr Octagon tho'.

Also, OMG, Daft Punk/Bangalter and Todd Edwards (one trick or not) omission!

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurt produced a shitload of really amazing beats for Keith, especially all the ones on Sex Style and Dr. Dooom. I think his style though is really well suited to Keith's, and I'm not sure if he would do so well with other artists.

Automator's shit is bad-ass no matter who he's working with. I bet he could make Toby fucking Keith sound dope.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Case-in-point for Automator making people sound good (better than they themselves are): the new Galactic album.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

right now: equinox, breakage, amit, seba, fanu

― ryan kuo (ryan kuo), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, I rinsed Masters of Illusion for a year before getting tired of the Kurt 'n' Keith Show dynamic. Ah well.

More producers: I have a certain respect for a dude named Nick Faber, who's done a whole bunch of breakbeat-funk-hip hop beats and downtempo/electro/beats/space-out releases on various UK labels. Also, has done 2 excellent remixes (Badly Drawn Boy - 'Once Around The Block' and Sugababes - 'Overload'). Actually, a fairly eclectic and consistent producer all-round.

I still like the Chemicals too.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/marshall-crenshaw-pays-homage-to-late-producer-tom-wilson/2016/08/10/b0ef4e00-5d85-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html

― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 August 2016 18:45 (nine years ago)

Metal has a giant Martin Birch-shaped hole that hasn't been filled since he retired... Seriously, does the genre have one other professional producer who's, y'know, good? Live recordings and amateur self-produced stuff sounds better than most of the real production jobs in metal.

― punksishippies, Friday, 19 August 2016 21:38 (nine years ago)

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