Some of these names sound vaguely familiar, but the only one's I know for sure are Beck, Rubin, and Weatherall, and out of those it's pretty easy to choose Weatherall, though I have no idea what kind of music he's doing in 2010.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
He's making Racist Indie Metal
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
CAN'T TAKE YOUR VOTE BACK NOW, SON
rip bobby g
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHb4VL0SSc
― sock lobster (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Only ones I can identify are
Mark RonsonDr. LukeGeoff BarrowDave SitekKleerupBeckRick RubinStuart Price
A couple of the other names sound vaguely familiar, but I couldn't tell you who they are or what they've done.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Starsmith is a talking dolphin who wants to be adopted so he can be safe and happy. He is currently working on the new Kate Nash joint.
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Ew, that's pretty awful! Now I kinda regret voting for Weatherall. Isn't he doing techno anymore?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
(xx-post)
James Ford is the manager of the Prospect Street, Hull branch of the Yorkshire Bank. He has produced remixes for Tinie Tempah, Pitbull and Raven Symone.
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh weatherall has forsworn techno and now only makes music w/ amplified harps, dulcimers and cubase
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
he writes inchorent screeds about the impurity of rhythm all over the internet
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
He still releases cynical parodies of Techno under his alias "The Homophobe".
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
they're so hot i only know 5 of them. good job, NME.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
He draws the covers himself then sneaks them into the racks of independent record stores in Mitteleuropa.
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha most of the dudes no one has heard of are the ones producing Lady Gaga/Katy Perry/Cheryl Cole. Admittedly I hadn't heard of them either.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted for redone
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Ew, that's pretty awful!
smde
― sock lobster (blueski), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
is there even a token dubstep dude on this list?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:06 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'm hoping this list turns into a discussion about how the NME only covers music that 17 year-old indies are interested in tbh
― Already WSed last summer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:08 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
these things should go hand in hand. 17 year olds aren't just corny indie fuxxors anymore, the only real breakdown is those who don't listen to anything v. those who'll try anything v. those who read kerrang.
oh and xpost my 'ew' was aimed at the list, not yr choice.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The NME covers dubstep all the time now. It's basically like drum and bass or IDM c.95-98 as far as indie crossover goes.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Grime too actually. I don't think they'd be able to fill it with wall-to-wall guitar bands any more and still expect anyone in their target market to buy it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Ross RObinson is the guy that did the new Klaxons, and it's actually pretty enjoyable imo and not the total disaster I was expecting. Think he comes from nu-metal though - Korn & Slipknot iirc?
Beck did a great job on the Charlotte Gainsbourg album. Can't stand his records but that one was gold.
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Ross Robinson is responsible for most of the shitty sounding metal albums of the last 15 years but he was ok on the atd-i album, and he produced the cure i think too.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Duh, have just twigged who Steve Mackey is, but didn't know anything about his productions (MIA, FATM).
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
mackey's productions are competent and entirely unremarkable. which kind of puts him ahead most of the others on this list tbh
― pies madness (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
mnek doesn't even have a wiki page. nme digging DEEP.
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
MNEK is like 14 isn't he?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this list :o :o :o
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
might have voted sitek but hes really gone downhill (not that hes shit, just not very interesting anymore) imo
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not that :o - most of them are pretty sought-after and producing massive artists. More so than Funkystepz or Benga or whoever.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
:o because:
personally I agree that in 2010 goddamned beck is hotter behind the boards than any black producer
― The Reverend, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 8:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha I didn't even notice Beck in there.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the way these producers work is pretty diff to how a benga or skream produce though
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I mean even though it's an NME list I still assumed it was going to be at least primarily 'producers' in the sense associated with electronic/club music, rather than 'guys who are hired to record a band and make them sound good'... most of these names I either don't recognise, have no idea of their producer credentials (Beck?) or in a few cases am automatically turned off by
― ROLLINS: MY DEMISE (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
that tortoise up there was born to loaf around behind a console racking 'em out every half hour, though
― ROLLINS: MY DEMISE (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I mean even though it's an NME list I still assumed it was going to be at least primarily 'producers' in the sense associated with electronic/club music, rather than 'guys who are hired to record a band and make them sound good'...
ehh, i dunno about this. it's the nme (not a zing, im just saying). it sort of makes more sense for it to mean 'dude who produces other people' rather than 'dude who makes music'.
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry yeah I just meant in terms of how I think of the word, which I didn't make clear... that said, if (if) that list is a an accurate summation of 20 bigshot producers of 2010 it doesn't say much for the legacy of good and bankable rock qua rock knobtwiddlers, insofar as most of 'em are also dance producers/remixers/dudes who ~make beats~ (eg Geoff Barrow)
― ROLLINS: MY DEMISE (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
like even Ross Robinson is presumably mainly on there because he just did NU RAVE HOPES the Klaxons' second album (which I thought sounded horrible, but I basically hate them so accept that I might not have listened w/ wholly unbiased ears)
― ROLLINS: MY DEMISE (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I've no idea who such a list is meant to appeal to, or who is likely to give a shit.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
NME's 20 hottest producers [Started by daavid in October 2010, last updated 48 seconds ago by Matt DC on I Love Music] 76 new answers
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i might be totally out of the loop with him but who does beck produce these days? apart from the tribute albums hes doing through his site and those samey-as-anything scott pilgrim songs.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
It's hardly making me want to rush out and buy a copy though NRQ.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
xp:Beck has produced someone named Jamie Lidell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUjza8Tnf8
and Charlotte Gainsbourg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWN0-MuK38
Don't ask me when the shit-hot production comes in though.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost it does seem extraordinary, that one.
Check the latest Docherty album, someone.
xpost and now my post is redundant,.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
There's hardly anyone on this list who isn't past their best. Rock-wise, it's all a bit 2005.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, I read that as : There's hardly anyone on this board who isn't past their best
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what is xx dudes name?
Jamie Smith
and (Ross Robinson) produced the cure i think too.
he did so very badly.
― bitchmaid (sic), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 11 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
are those 4 ppl trolling?
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 October 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hot fiyah
― waka flocka display name (zvookster), Monday, 11 October 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark Ronson 0Ross Robinson 0
Hurrah!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't see this, but no Mitchell Froom nor even Nigel Godrich, no credibility. :)
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
and George Martin was robbed too
― Neil S, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, he isn't working anymore, but the two I mentioned are, and Nigel Godrich even works with relevant acts.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link