Producers with great sound design
- KVRian
- 541 posts since 15 Jun, 2011 from Betwixt or between
Some random examples:
Beck
BoC
The JDs
Aimee Mann
Ezekiel Honig
Beck
BoC
The JDs
Aimee Mann
Ezekiel Honig
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- KVRAF
- 11052 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
I saw him perform it live, and it was AMAZING! ... [wearing the T-shirt, now]dewgong wrote:What did you think of ISAM? I found it a little cold, I much prefer Bricolage and Chaos TheoryJosmoker wrote:Amon Tobin would be an obvious example I guess.
I'm not a musician, but I've designed sounds that others use to make music. http://soundcloud.com/obsidiananvil
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- KVRAF
- 3477 posts since 27 Dec, 2002 from North East England
James Blake's early stuff was astonishing. Used dynamic range in a way which was pretty much unheard of in dance music. It's interesting how 'unshocking' this stuff sounds just 5 years on. That ultra sparse, glossy 'pop R&B' influenced sound pretty much became the lingua franca of the London music scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5D2HpiQQI
More recently I've come to appreciate tracks which deploy very simple sounds in interesting ways. The lo-fi techno sound has become a wildly oversaturated space over the last 2 or so years, and so tracks like this which achieve a lo-fi vibe through the use of a very restricted sound palette as opposed to slathering standard techno tunes in layers of artificial distortion and tape hiss are a welcome breath of fresh air. There's plenty of distortion and hiss here too, but the sounds themselves are almost reminiscent of something you'd hear coming out of a university electronic studio in the 1960s.
https://soundcloud.com/whities/004_mino ... ce-glamour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5D2HpiQQI
More recently I've come to appreciate tracks which deploy very simple sounds in interesting ways. The lo-fi techno sound has become a wildly oversaturated space over the last 2 or so years, and so tracks like this which achieve a lo-fi vibe through the use of a very restricted sound palette as opposed to slathering standard techno tunes in layers of artificial distortion and tape hiss are a welcome breath of fresh air. There's plenty of distortion and hiss here too, but the sounds themselves are almost reminiscent of something you'd hear coming out of a university electronic studio in the 1960s.
https://soundcloud.com/whities/004_mino ... ce-glamour
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- KVRAF
- 8414 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Alesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_VDDhV6A9M
I've always enjoyed the sound design that Hybrid does. Some of it is actually pretty good.
I've always enjoyed the sound design that Hybrid does. Some of it is actually pretty good.
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- KVRAF
- 4321 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
Off the top o' my head, all of these guys are superhuman;
Eskmo
Grimblee/Hecka
Rez
Kloudmen
https://soundcloud.com/eskmo
https://soundcloud.com/grimblee
https://soundcloud.com/heckaofficial
https://soundcloud.com/rezdubstep
https://soundcloud.com/kloudmen
Eskmo
Grimblee/Hecka
Rez
Kloudmen
https://soundcloud.com/eskmo
https://soundcloud.com/grimblee
https://soundcloud.com/heckaofficial
https://soundcloud.com/rezdubstep
https://soundcloud.com/kloudmen
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- KVRAF
- 8414 posts since 4 Jul, 2012 from Alesia
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 298 posts since 9 Feb, 2015
Arca is worth a mention. He's a little inconsistent but when he gets it right his music is like a massive groundswell. The layers are orchestrated classically. Have a listen to "Now you know" for instance. Parts of it feel like the huge updraft you get on a parachute drop. I definitely like metaphors
- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
That Koan this is amazing, listeting to the whole!
Still, not sure if it's a matter of sound design - more like composition and talent.
Still, not sure if it's a matter of sound design - more like composition and talent.
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Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
- KVRAF
- 35297 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Most of the examples posted here seem to be musicians and composers, I never know why 'producers' always get the credit for stuff that is usually the province of musicians and composers.
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- KVRAF
- 35189 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
The OP actually asked about "artists" ...aMUSEd wrote:Most of the examples posted here seem to be musicians and composers, I never know why 'producers' always get the credit for stuff that is usually the province of musicians and composers.
dewgong wrote:Do you know of any artists who have exceptional frequency/dynamic response in their music?
- KVRAF
- 35297 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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- KVRAF
- 35436 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
F.S.O.L. were pretty amazing. Not sure if that was due to the sound design itself, or rather that they used a gazillion of different synths with very different sound characteristics. At least they did sounds which i never heard before, and which very much stood out in the mix and were very unique. Not my favorite kind of music even, but the sounds are really something you remember.
- KVRAF
- 1821 posts since 26 Nov, 2005 from Where silence and chaos meet.
Wow.... I was about to say exactly the samething... Timelss unforgetable craftmen...chk071 wrote:F.S.O.L. were pretty amazing. Not sure if that was due to the sound design itself, or rather that they used a gazillion of different synths with very different sound characteristics. At least they did sounds which i never heard before, and which very much stood out in the mix and were very unique. Not my favorite kind of music even, but the sounds are really something you remember.
Oh, and +1 for delia derbyshire...
It's not what you use, it's how you use it...