i just ran across Tom Cosm's work for the first time. great man. and there have been a handful of times that someones work has stood out from the rest. who are your favorite people, and why?

we can open it up to any area of work in the industry if you like

 

If I had to choose to I’d say Timbaland and Danja.
If I had to choose 2 I’d say Timbaland and Danja.

 

Mitchell Froom, T-Bone Burnett, Brian Eno

 

Virtual Riot without a doubt!

 

ahh really, I'll have to check these guys out hey rhythmatist long time no see

 

Timbaland, Neptunes

 

definitely ME

 

My all-time favourite producer : El-P from Company Flow. He made me wanna make music, that's all what this is about, no...?

 

besides my parents who both where performing music for many years and heavly influenced my upbringing I would say - thinking back and remembred what producers really made me jump on the musictrain it was Quincy Jones and Teddy Riley no doubt. Old heroes

 

I think my favorite producer, if i have to pick just one, must be Adrian Sherwood. His work is so great wether he works on dub, punk, reggae or any other genre. He got a pretty distinct sound i would say.

 

3 Producer legends are my all time favorites:

Trevor Horn | Timbaland | Arthur Baker

 

Infected Mushroom, Savant, Astrix

 

Not just because of the Bowie stuff, but for also for some of his other impressive productions, his consummate musicality, and his being from Brooklyn – Tony Visconti:

 

George Martin, Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite, Tim Palmer, Flood, Alan Moulder,Dave Garcia, Monti. the last 2 I've built studio computers for. Monti along with Rob Holliday are pretty much responsible for resurrecting Gary Numan's Carrier.

 

Robert Rich, Bill Laswell, Pierre Henry ...
And many more I guess..but these are some that come to mind first.


Prehistoric Ambient ..or something like that (1953)
.. definetely a pioneer of electronic music.

 

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I don't really have one, though I do like Steve Albini's work and attitude towards the music industry.

 

In Hip Hop, for me has to be J Dilla/RZA but thats just me.

 

Neptunes, Quincey Jones.. Honorable Mention(s) Premier and 9th Wonder for BoomBap

 

Max Martin, anyone? And maybe his little henshmen: Shellback, dr Luke, Kotecha, Rami Yacoub....

OK George Martin and Phil Spectre ruled the 60s, people like Eno and Quincy Jones ruled the years after, but since the late 90s it's been Max Martin without fail. Whereas Timbaland, Babyface and the Neptunes are not even relevant anymore after a few years at the top, Max is still making numbers ones every single year.

BTW: This was my first post on this forum, thanx for having me ;-)

 

Henrik Schwarz, Christian Prommer (no, I am not German).