ITT: God tier producers

That drop though

Is dnb dead? (Aside from like LA,seattle, Portland, florida, European places...)

it feels like is stagnating

Boring as fuckmy dude.
The thing with DnB is that it has cool elements, but it's basically the same song over and over.
Unless you're autistic about the small dfferences between tracks, they all sound pretty similar to each other.
How can I enjoy a song that has the same reese bass, drum patterns (and sounds), leads, type of melody, chords, vibe, etc. that I've already heard a million times before?
My persona favourite Noisia track is Tommy's theme because of the weird phaser bass, and that's not really a DnB song even according to Noisia themselves.

Cringe

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Scott Burns.

you clearly don't like the genre your opinion is kinda worthless

I do like the genre.
I'm just tired of it being all the same.
If the producers focused on progressing it by trying weird things (kinda like in some Division releases) instead of on perfecting the basics in an increasingly louder package (which can only offer diminishing returns and we're past the point of not being worth it anymore), I wouldn't hold such a negative opinion of it.

I'm a producer myself and hearing a new song that manages to be insanely loud while retaining a high degree of clarity is impressive, but does it increase my enjoyment of the song?
Fuck no (if anything it makes it fatiguing and forces me to turn it down, which makes it even quieter than normal songs due to the minuscule dynamic range).
I'd rather listen to a song that has elements I've never heard before than to hear the same shit everyone does, but louder.
Don't get me wrong, there are still interesting songs coming out once in a while, but they're very rare in a sea of producers doing the same thing over and over again.

Another genre that I've never liked but is plagued by the same issue is hardstyle. As soon as a producer tried something new he received so much backlash from the community that they either fell out or were forced to saty within the boundries of what was "allowed". As a result, the scene as a whole basically died.

DnB has so much potential and can thrive and possibly even become mainstream again simply by experimenting with mixing elements from other genres and doing weird shit, but almost nobody does that. It's a waste.
Like them or not, Skrillex and company mixed Neurofunk with Dubstep and made Brostep, which became the biggest thing on earth for a bit, and largely contributed to the popularity of electronic music as a whole.
Why can't DnB producers do shit like that?
Hell they could simply start mixing it with IDM like 20 years ago, but with modern production tools/techniques, but everybody is worried about loudness wankery and "the perfect snare" shit.

alright I get your point now, I think it's also an audience problem
>they could simply start mixing it with IDM like 20 years ago, but with modern production tools/techniques, but everybody is worried about loudness wankery and "the perfect snare" shit.
I feel like these two statements contradict each other since modern production involves loudness wankery and autistic sound design

I think we're disagreeing on what "autistic sound design" actually entails.
I think you're talking aboout sound design being autistic in general, but for me the autism is focussing on small things that don't make a difference in the song itself but only in the "polish", if that makes sense.
Like trying to achieve the perfect snare is autistic, but making a new snare that didn't exist before isn't.
If you're making innovations in the sound design, then it's not pointless in a genre like DnB where sound design has a fundamental role.
A song being interesting doesn't necessarily have to come from the score. A song with boring notes can still give me a reason to listen to it if it has something else, and interesting sound design can fill that role very well in DnB.
Too bad most songs have boring composition AND sound design (in which all the effort in put into the autistic side of it like loudness of pointless polish that makes very little difference), so why would I listen to them?
It's like a product with no selling point. It has no reason to exist at all.

New software keeps coming out with interesting features with great possibilities (and I know a lot of DnB producers are VST junkies) that if explored in the right way can lead to insane innovation.
Hell, if they got into DSP (like even just editing M4L devices) they would open the doors to an infinite amount of unexplored possibilities, but nobody cares. They all want the best slight variation of a reese, and it's an absolute waste.

Noisia at least have variety unlike other DnB bands

Pendulum tried to mix DnB with rock and it was fairly successful

>Noisia at least have variety unlike other DnB bands
Sure, and that's why I think they're at the top right now.
Everyone who's into electronic music knows about Noisia, but can you say the same about other DnB acts right now?
They're a huge exception.

>Pendulum tried to mix DnB with rock and it was fairly successful
Exactly what I mean.
Why aren't we seeing more crossovers like that instead of labels essentially releasing the same song every day?

Netsky, Nero and Chase and Status were quite popular for a while, but fell out of relevance because their new albums were crap.

Eh, maybe I missed the good ones, but almost everything I've heard from those three didn't really attract my attention.
Especially Netsky. Really well produced stuff but nothing that I'd consider worth listening to (personal opinion of course).

If you claim to be in any way interested in production/sound design/engineering and can't at the very least appreciate Noisia, even without necessarily being a fan, you are clueless and cringe as fuck.

Thanks for this valuable contribution to the thread.

Dbridge , bad company , ed rush & optical , jeff mills , roni size , robert hood , objekt , djrum , burial , kode9 , plastikman , vsnares , photek

those are god producers kids , a lesson in electronic music right there , if you don't acknowledge them as your top producers you're not allowed to have an opinion in their respective genres

Culprate, Noisia and KOAN Sound are my favorite producers.
If you like weird experimental stuff, i highly suggest you check out the youtube channels Division Recordings and Inspector Dubplate

Try listening to Moon Palace, maybe you'll like it

Unironically pic related

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If you claim to be in any way interested in production/sound design/engineering and can't at the very least appreciate Baobab, even without necessarily being a fan, you are clueless and cringe as fuck.
Dbridge , bad company , ed rush & optical , jeff mills , roni size , robert hood , objekt , djrum ,
Fuzzy MJC, Kevin Morane, Zyva Maxx, Baobab, Sylvia City, Urban Bongos, Ultiscratchin, Res-pec, Black Revolt 2050, Lil Jump, NY Ballchasers, Nuffin2gay, Slapo, Tune-A, Kiffin Téci, Confidental Jim
Those are god producers kids , a lesson in electronic music right there , if you don't acknowledge them as your top producers you're not allowed to have an opinion in their respective genres.

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>jeff mills
Opinion discarded and post hidden.

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I'm pretty sure you've only listened to the music video version and not the actual song

I want to hear something from Nuffin2gay but I can't find anything

>jeff mills
Literally who?

>Try listening to Moon Palace, maybe you'll like it
The one with Teebee?
It's a nice song but I don't see how it's not like a billion of other DnB songs.
Maybe it was special when it came out, but listening to it now it sounds quite boring.

The special edition of their album "split the atom" is in my top 5 most listened albums.
I can "sing" and beatbox to each one of them and know every little detail and lyric by heart.
Doesn't mean I can't find them boring in the context of the whole DnB scene doing the same stuff ad nauseam.

And yes, I was being a cunt on purpose just to be a cunt, so those posts were a bit exagerating, but the point still stands.

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Try this then:
youtube.com/watch?v=oXkYJ0cQx_0

One of the most famous techno guys.
Not worth looking into, as with the rest of the techno "producers".

He's still right

>I'm still right

Sorry, Autocorrect.

Kill the Noise, unironically.

Dunno but my favorite non-producer is Steve Albini

Rick Rubin

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He ruined Opeth

London On Da Track, unironically.

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Blackwater Park is pure kino, wtf are you talking about?

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J Dilla, Madlib, Pete Rock, and Nujabes imo

zach hill desu

They are excellent producers but don't make much that's actually worth listening to

>Hell, if they got into DSP (like even just editing M4L devices) they would open the doors to an infinite amount of unexplored possibilities, but nobody cares.

Squarepusher does all this

Mefjus (probably followed by Break) is obviously the best producer in the game and if you think otherwise you don't know shit about the topic. This isn't a discussion, its fact.

kenton slash demon

Fuzzy MJC

'jump up'

eastern europe here
scene is very alive and kicking
I'm not sure why, the music just sounds the same to me and I've barely been to a few parties and I've heard to same tracks
massive fanbase but they have zero knowledge of any other electronic music
they usually also like dub which again baffles me
even had a friend who invited me to a dnb party, was god awful, my head hurt and they went way overboard with the strobes
noisia is playing this friday in my town but I've been to a show of theirs like 4 years ago and listening to it know it sounds pretty much exactly the same as I remember that gig

Jeff Lynne makes everyone else posted on this thread look like a retarded baby

kys nigger
youtube.com/watch?v=SAO-lzl3vVQ

his hip hop production is laughable

mate your talking to people who couldn't survive a rave because of their social inaptitude in the first place theres no point even discussing dnb with the people who frequent Yea Forums they havent danced a night in their life

>they went way overboard with the strobes
this really pisses me off, seems to be really common with dnb

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He's really great, but he's not as godly as you make it sound. There are many other producers on his level. Seems like you're the one with limited knowledge.

that and trap are musical cancer to me

Jeff mills n Robert hood/floorplan are the bees knees

Sadwrist
soundcloud.com/sadwrist/lat-oss-leva-lit-us-libje-lattu-okkur-lifa-lass-uns-leben
Nobody comes close

sinkhole the most pleb-filtering track they ever made, pleb

hip hop is laughable

>best alpha centauri version is not included
YIKES!

youtube.com/watch?v=TChjUJ3ev2w

>youtube.com/watch?v=FzPITNQHOic
this kills deadmau5fags

*blocks you path*

youtube.com/watch?v=CSemARaqGqE

theres people close
who do you mean?
i hear new drum and bass all day every day there is a reason why mef won best producer at the dnb awards, its because he's unmatched.

Where to go for complex sound design without everything sounding overly mechanical? Nothing wrong with it, but it just seems overly common with great sound guys like Autechre and Ryuji Ikeda having that mechanical aesthetic.