NME's 20 hottest producers

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.

Ew, that's pretty awful! Now I kinda regret voting for Weatherall. Isn't he doing techno anymore?

(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.

tbh weatherall has forsworn techno and now only makes music w/ amplified harps, dulcimers and cubase

he writes inchorent screeds about the impurity of rhythm all over the internet

He still releases cynical parodies of Techno under his alias "The Homophobe".

they're so hot i only know 5 of them. good job, NME.

He draws the covers himself then sneaks them into the racks of independent record stores in Mitteleuropa.

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.

i voted for redone

Ew, that's pretty awful!

smde

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Duh, have just twigged who Steve Mackey is, but didn't know anything about his productions (MIA, FATM).

mackey's productions are competent and entirely unremarkable. which kind of puts him ahead most of the others on this list tbh

mnek doesn't even have a wiki page. nme digging DEEP.

MNEK is like 14 isn't he?

this list :o :o :o

might have voted sitek but hes really gone downhill (not that hes shit, just not very interesting anymore) imo

It's not that :o - most of them are pretty sought-after and producing massive artists. More so than Funkystepz or Benga or whoever.

: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

Haha I didn't even notice Beck in there.

the way these producers work is pretty diff to how a benga or skream produce though

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

that tortoise up there was born to loaf around behind a console racking 'em out every half hour, though

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'.

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)

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)

Yeah I've no idea who such a list is meant to appeal to, or who is likely to give a shit.

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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.

It's hardly making me want to rush out and buy a copy though NRQ.

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.

xpost it does seem extraordinary, that one.

Check the latest Docherty album, someone.

xpost and now my post is redundant,.

There's hardly anyone on this list who isn't past their best. Rock-wise, it's all a bit 2005.

ha, I read that as : There's hardly anyone on this board who isn't past their best

what is xx dudes name?

Jamie Smith

and (Ross Robinson) produced the cure i think too.

he did so very badly.

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are those 4 ppl trolling?

hot fiyah

Mark Ronson 0
Ross Robinson 0

Hurrah!

Didn't see this, but no Mitchell Froom nor even Nigel Godrich, no credibility. :)

and George Martin was robbed too

Well, he isn't working anymore, but the two I mentioned are, and Nigel Godrich even works with relevant acts.