Favourite Producer/Production style

Parrish_Crooks

This isn't intended as an argumentative thread, I simply wanna see what people's tastes are like, and hopefully, discover some new producers/sounds that I haven't heard before. My fave in no particular order;

BuckWild
9th Wonder
Ayatollah
Da Beatminerz
DJ Premier
RZA
Diamond D
Erick Sermon
Havoc

I love hard grimey beats, East coast style mainly, with lashings of soul samples thrown in (David Ruffin, Marvin Gaye etc) the more obscure the better, and the more scratching the better!

MoyVilla9

Easy Mo Bee has it for me. The grimy East coast feel with some west coast flavor thrown in there too.

Parrish_Crooks

MoyVilla9 wrote: »

Easy Mo Bee has it for me. The grimy East coast feel with some west coast flavor thrown in there too.

Man I knew I left someone out! Temptations, Machine Gun Funk, Flava in ya ear, Warning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQzSk38dTU

Shapey Fiend

We got 2 posts into the treat before 2Pac got referenced in a non-ironic manner. This place is slipping further downhill.

In the past 12 months I'd say I was impressed most by

Ski Beatz
Oh No
Alchemist
Tyler The Creator
Block Beataz
Jake One

Irish producers wise I liked

SertOne
Father Jack
D'beats
G.I.
Danny Diggs
Hostile Product
Noize Thievery

plus a few other NI guys whose names I can't remember.

Parrish_Crooks

I forgot about Lord Finesse, Pete Rock, Ski and Large Professor.

I take it you don't like 2pac Shapeyfiend? A lot of people do though, so it would be nice if you respected that people have different opinions than your own!

Jay Ru

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

We got 2 posts into the treat before 2Pac got referenced in a non-ironic manner. This place is slipping further downhill.

In the past 12 months I'd say I was impressed most by

Ski Beatz
Oh No
Alchemist
Tyler The Creator
Block Beataz
Jake One

Irish producers wise I liked

SertOne
Father Jack
D'beats
G.I.
Danny Diggs
Hostile Product
Noize Thievery

plus a few other NI guys whose names I can't remember.

whether u like Pac or not that beat is sick!

Kev Brown - hugely under-rated producer. Done alot of uncredited work for Jazzy Jeffs label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOLezyf1_1A

Dilla - simply one of the greatest to ever use an MPC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZK0HeYkwM

Dungeon Family - Outkasts production team since back in the day. They've put out some of the best southern hip hop to date.

Black Milk - Motown 25 was the beat of the year in 2009 for me, helped out by incredible verses from Elzhi & Royce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqyt_0IlxMo

Danger Mouse deserves a mention to, as well as Kanye West (m.b.d.t.f.) is one of the best produced albums in music this year, not just hip hop but music in general. Erick Sermon was the **** back in the day but ever since Music with Marvin Gaye he hasn't really put out any thing special. Jazzy Jeff has put out some sick beats over the years. Will.i.am, yeah i know the black eyed peas are the worst thing to ever happen to music since Fergie the meth head joined the group, just have a look for some of the beats he's done for other artists. Thes One from P.U.T.S is worth a mention to for tracks like Acid Rain Drops, Schooled in the Trade and Trippin At The Disco

PrettyBoy

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

We got 2 posts into the treat before 2Pac got referenced in a non-ironic manner. This place is slipping further downhill

Maybe no one cares that you don't like 2Pac and will mention him whenever they like?

Boom_Bap

There are too many to mentions, some of my favorites are Premo, RZA, Easy Moe Be, Dre, Dilla, Ski Beatz, Lazerbeak, DangerMouse, Organised Noise, BuckWild, Beatminerz, P.O.S., Paper Tiger, Ant, QDIII, Shadow, Cheif Xcel, Stoupe, DOOM, RJD2, Eric Sermon, L.E.S., Trackmasters, Muggs, Large Pro, El-P, Camu Tao, Dj Quik, Havoc, hi Tek, Neptunes, Prince Paul, kanyes, Pete Rock, The Bomb Suad, Timbaland.

On the flip side, there are some rubbish producers who for some reason are making hits....like that chap Boi 1da or whatever his name is. It's beyond me how peole like his beats.

EDIT: Blockhead

HalloweenJack

Neptunes, Dre, RZA, Organized Noize, Kanye, Alchemist, Lil' Jon, J-Dilla, DJ Cut Chemist & DJ Nu-Mark, DJ Premier.

I could come up with loads more if I thought harder about it.

iamstop

Automator, Kutmasta Kurt, Dj Krush, Luke Vibert, Bonobo, Mr. Scruff

scientific1982

Old Dj Muggs.
Easy Mo Bee.
Buckwild.
RZA.
Dr Dre.
Havoc.
Alchemist.
J Dilla.
Dj Quik.

Makaveli

11 posts and no Madlib?

Parrish_Crooks

Makaveli wrote: »

11 posts and no Madlib?

12 posts now, and I'm disappointed I didn't mention Marley Marl in my first post!

Legend!

iamstop

rjd2

horsebox09

Aside from ones that are already mentioned:

Pete Rock
DJ Paul & Juicy J
Pimp C

Early - Mid 1990's East Coast production style is my favourite

Parrish_Crooks

I forgot about Prince Paul. Everything he's done from Stetsasonic, to De La Soul, to his own concept albums to Handsome Boy Modeling School with Dan The Automator have all been top notch! He is one producer who is always pushing the boundaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEvpbm2w2R8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7tz03v8wc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-i6tnkxWX0

Raekwon

Some producers that I like that might not have been mentioned yet:

The Beatnuts, Scott Storch, Swizz Beatz, Salaam Remi, Nottz, Rick Rubin, Rockwilder, Minnesota, DJ Pooh, Danja, J.U.S.T.I.C.E League, DJ Toomp, Khrysis, DJ Babu, E-Swift, Bangladesh, Cool & Dre, Quincey Tones, DJ Scratch, Mr Porter, Jelly Roll, Battlecat, No I.D., Carlos "6 July" Broady, Kay Gee, Clark Kent.

MoyVilla9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNXoH7EYWY

This is another production style I love. Grimey G-Funk.
BlackJack of The Tracklordz produced this, I don't know much about him though.

Warren G is a great producer too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEJa7t4ST0I

Parrish_Crooks

Warren G is a great producer too.

Indeed. This is one of my favourite Warren G produced tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMi1U9364PE

Nolanger

Parrish_Crooks wrote: »

12 posts now, and I'm disappointed I didn't mention Marley Marl in my first post!

Legend!

He should have been mentioned in the first post. First rap producer to use the sampler.

Seaneh

For me Dill and Kanye are me personal favourites/

Dilla is just peerless, different planet ****.
His use of sounds is just insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ncSt5xC8Uk

And Kanye is, well, he's just different, absolute genius, I don't think there is a producer alive who can touch him for originality. Absolute Genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyQpQhrQ5Zs

After those, it's the usual suspects of Premo, Madlib, Pete Rock, 9th Wonder and surprisingly, I really like Just Blaze.

MoyVilla9

Ya, I was wondering when someone was going to mention Kanye. Great producer.

Boom_Bap

Parrish_Crooks wrote: »

I forgot about Prince Paul. Everything he's done from Stetsasonic, to De La Soul, to his own concept albums to Handsome Boy Modeling School with Dan The Automator have all been top notch! He is one producer who is always pushing the boundaries.

Cant forget about his input on the first Gravediggaz album either.

scientific1982

DJ Muggs. One of the most underrated producers of all time.

DJ Pooh. Another underrated legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZRXjM80UNI

RZA. Greatest hip hop producer of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwkdpAx7Nd0

Dr.Millah

Alot of the above mentioned. Damu, flying lotus, thes one (from PUTS), no q-tip or K-def mentioned yet either! So many more

DrumSteve

Always liked the Neptunes, Kanye, Muggs and Dre.

Myerz

1. PREMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lNbNGbo24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSh1dLlBaHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfoOGYra47A

Camac Hibs

Favourite producers are Premier, Pete Rock, Dilla, 9th Wonder, Easy Mo Bee, Rza, Madlib, Prince Paul, Muggs, Organized Noize and Decompoze.

In recent years have really enjoyed the work of Exile, Kev Brown, Khrysis and Sabi from Blue Scholars.