Favorite Producer/Composer?
 

Who are you favorite producers/composers/beat makers?

Im feeling:

The Neptunes
9th Wonder
Stakka n Skynet
Jay Dee (from Slum Village)
Quincy Jones
Les Mcann
Lil John
Claude Debussy

Nice list Tofu...

I like Claude Debussy and Quincy Jones. I'll have to check out some of the ones on your list I haven't heard of.

I might be a cracker but I have a little burnt toast around the edges.

I can HEAR Jimi :1orglaugh

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Aphex Twin

Stakka n Skynet
:thumbsup

Frank Zappa

I like:

Vivaldi
John Williams
Stephen Foster
Warren Zevon
George Martin
Phil Spector - even if he is mad he produced some good stuff

Whoever is is that produces Placebo ;)

For the current generation my favorite two are John Williams & Hans Zimmer...

Mahlar
Stravinski
Dvorák
Rachmaninov
Richard Strauss
Wagnar (in small doses)
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Copland
Gershwin
Bernstein


There are tons more.. to many to list.

Rick Rubin

Terry Date

yah!

Bach
Mozart
Händel
Prokofiev
Brahms
Vivaldi
Puccini
Dvorak
Verdi
Ravel
Grieg
Mussorgskij
Rakhmaninov
Glazunov
Poulenc
Telemann

In that order.

Danny Elfman..........
He is right there with Mozart and the like. A true GENIUS.

Listen to Mahler and you will here where Elfman gets his stuff from. I like him, but he needs an original thought.

Most all of Elfmans work is variations on Mahlar Symphonies.


Mozart is in a class all his own. Even Mahlar, who was a student of Wagner copied a very large amount of his work from his teacher as well as another composer of that day Bruckner.

genius pure genius jason-

Danny is one of my favorites as well going back to the days of Oingo Boingo!

:thumbsup

I hear you..........
Perfection Girls.......Everyones music is influenced by those before them. To say he has no original thoughts is quite ridiculous.
But the drummer with the Devil Horn hair from Boingo , he got that from Mahler. :thumbsup

VATOS!

The drummer

Good ole Johhny..........I remember seeing them at the Belly Up and the Del Mar fairgrounds. Damn good times.went to 5 Halloween shows in a row. One of my all time favorite bands.

Well.. truefully, I had students back when I was teach compare that actual cord progressions from Mahlars 1st, 5th and 7th Symphones. All the main progressions in his Mahlars themes and choruses are identical to Elfmans major movie scores. We had both original scores side by side and some measures are the same.. note for note with identical instrumentation. Im not knocking him for doing it.. I mean its great stuff, but I would call him more of an arranger then a composer. Same with John Williams, but Williams is not nearly at talented as Elfman.

Don;t get me wrong... I like Elfman.. He rights powerful stuff and being a brass player I love it. However, if you like Elfman, go get a recording of Mahlar's 1st 5th and 7th Symphonies recorded by the Chicago Symphony with Fritz Riener Conducting. It's amazing!

I will buy them today.

Dr. Dre
BattleCat
Fred Wreck
Neptunes

Danny Elfman
David Byrne
the classics
peshay
John Fahey
Kruder&Dorfmeister
Dzihdan

Dr Dre
Swiss Beats
DJ Clue
Battlecat
Funk Flex

thomas bangalter
paul johnson
alex gopher
matthew herbert
max martin

oh and ian pooley

Nice list, Jay Dee is the man.

I was just talking to Stakka the other day... good guy he is. He's in brooklyn now, him and stakka started their own labels and are doing the solo thing.

best hiphop beats on the planet = dre, swiss beats a close 2nd
best drum n bass - tech itch crew or LTJ Bukem depending on what style of d.n.b yer after
house - paul johnson

Word to LTJ I forgot him.

Pish Posh
Dj FOOD
Dj Octogon
Dj Shadow
Lorin

haha pish posh..

Wait till i tell all these DNB producers that they have big fans in the internet porn industry...

i'm sure they'll be extremely flattered.

pishposh aka dj wally, thats a funny motherfucker man, we've brought him down here a few times for parties. good peoples! :thumbsup

you're in CT? 1st party I ever spun was in CT, Silly Putty was the name of the party i think it was thrown by shy prod. :thumbsup

I remember silly putty!

haha wacky.

David Byrne, unlike many listed here, was not only able to put together some great music, he also came out with a few groundbreaking music/video combinations that he conceptualized. True Stories is great, Stop Making Sense was a work of art.

Just wanted to throw that in since someone mentioned him. :)

- Titus

Bjork
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Dj Premier

Bjork
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Dj Premier

huh? That looks like some html code.. not an artist! hahaha

Most of the classical composers (except Bach) that were listed I would list as well.

For modern composers, I'd have to go with John Cage and Brian Eno (for his ambient compositions, not his pop productions).

richard wagner
mozart
quincy jones
rkelly
dj premier
alchemist
jaydee
mark the 45 king
tito puente

Mike Patton
John Zorn
Eyvind Kang
Danny Elfman