Favorite Producers

[mickill]

The producers I love and why:

1 Rick Rubin - Beasties, Run DMC, RHCP, Johnny Cash, Slayer...and so forth
2 George Martin - The entire Beatles catalogue
3 Dre Dre - He's Dre. Nuff said
4 Phil Spector - He may be an asshole....but he was a genius
5 Dust Brothers/ Matt Dike - PAUL'S BOUTIQUE!!!, Fight Club, Odelay
6 Brian Eno - Bowie, U2, Roxy Music
7 Nelson Riddle - For Sinatra's best albums
8 Shel Talmy - The Who and The Kinks etc
9 DJ Premier - Produces Gangstarr and everybody else's best beats
10 Nile Rodgers - Let's Dance, Good Times, Upside Down, Like A Virgin
11 Tony Visconti - Electric Warrior and Ziggy Stardust come to mind
12 Prince - For single-handedly producing himself always
13 Butch Vig - Siamese Dream, Nevermind, remixes etc

[mcaismyhero]

Steve Albini-did In Utero and I think some REM.

[Mary-Kate]

I like Raine Maida - Under My Skin ..... and Greig Nori - Treble Charger cd's and Sum 41 cd's.

[mcaismyhero]

Butch Vig - Siamese Dream, Nevermind, remixes etc

Don't forget about Sonic Youth's Dirty (y)

[maddy]

Alex Newport - The Icarus Line, At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, The Locust, Your Enemies Friends.

Steve Albini - Nirvana, The Pixies, Breeders, The Wedding Present, Jesus Lizard, PJ Harvey, Big Black (obviousily), Rapeman (obviousily), Shellac (obviousily)

[NakedMoleRat]

My favorite producers(in No paticular order, Except for RZA, cause He's #1 for me):

1.RZA:
The Mastermind behind the Wu-Tang Clan. Nobody can touch his beats.

2.Prince Paul:
Insane Producer for rap Acts Such As De la Soul and The Gravediggaz.

3.Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Q-Tip/(basically the Ummah):
Did Most of the Production on Tribe's First 3 Albums(which are All Classic).

4.DJ Premier:
half of Gangstarr, Also Does Great production for Nas, Common, Etc.

5.Pete Rock:
WHO'S WORLD IS THIS? Brilliant producer paired with CL Smooth on the Mic.

6.Stoupe: the Enemy of mankind:
Brilliant beats on the jedi Mind tricks' Albums.

7.No I.D:
One Word: Ressurection.

8.DJ Nu mark and Cut Chemist:
near perfect beats on the J5 Albums.

9.?uestlove:
Check out any Roots Album and you'll se why Quest is a great producer.

10.the Dust brothers:
I have to Admit that the only production I have heard from them is On "Paul's Boutique" but thats def Good Enough for me.


hmmm, thats All I can think fo For now.

PEACE

[xxeralkuxx]

Albini-geneous

who ever produced Deat In Vegas's new album (really good ducked-in bass lines)

Rick Muthu Fuckin Ruben-DUH!

Paul Rubens-wait, wrong guy


Flemming Rasmusen-Metal God(he did And Justice For All and some of anthrax's stuff, i believe, and some other things i'm too lazy to remember right now)

[EN[i]GMA]

Dust Brothers
Stoupe
Necro
DJ Premier
Dan the Automater
DJ Shadow

Seems good. All legends except for Necro and maybe Stoupe.

[The Kilr Rabit]

David Bottrill

[tdot04]

My favorite rap producers are...

Organized Noize

They produced the early Outkast albums before Outkast took it all over. Lil' Jon should take lessons from these guys on how to make southern rap beats rather than so-called "crunk" beats.

[mickill]

Well, as far as hiphop producers go...

1 Dre
2 Primo
3 Marley Marl
4 Rick Rubin
5 Bomb Squad
6 Just Blaze
7 Pete Rock
8 RZA
9 A Tribe Called Quest
10 Salaam Remi
11 Beatnuts
12 Large Professor
13 Prince Paul
14 Timbaland
15 Organized Noize/Outkast

...or something like that

[RiCeBoY102]

GMA']Dust Brothers
Stoupe
Necro
DJ Premier
Dan the Automater
DJ Shadow

Seems good. All legends except for Necro and maybe Stoupe.


YES!!! Shadow And Premier are the shyit!

But here are my favorites:
Dj Shadow-For All of his work(including the song organ donor) and 4 the Quannum projects.
Dj Premier-Gang Starr is my favorite group and his other work with nas, biggie,etc.
Blackalicious-The A2G ep is what made me love these djs. Also of the quannum projects.
Guru-Raps for gang starr, but produced the jazamatazz series.
Dust Brothers- PAULS BOUTIQUE.
DJ Qbert-demolition pumpkin squeeze or wave twisters, this guy is a kick ass dj.
Cut-Chemist and Dj NuMark-Jurassic 5!!!!

[dave790]

DJ Muggs (y)

Also Laim Howlett's production on the Prodigy

[Marjo]

George Martin :D (y)

[Ferdinand_2]

1-Shel Tamy=Creation,Kinks,Who...

2-George Martin=Action,Beatles,...

3-Mario C=Beasties,Beck,...

[zippo]

i feel so left out

[DroppinScience]

No Ric Ocasek mentions? He's done some good producing...

[Kid Presentable]

I like what Jimmy Page did for Zeppelin.

[Sandinista!]

Trevor Horn has produced some slick stuff, ranging from ABC to Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

[Brass_Munkey]

Rick Rubin, NERD, Kanye West has some nice productions under his belt

[b-grrrlie]

I have to add Steve Lillywhite as well

Morrissey: Vauxhall & I, Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted
U2: Boy, October, War, Under A Blood Red Sky, a few songs on Achthung Baby. He didn’t produce Under A Blood Red Sky but he did help mix it and The Joshua Tree as well
Simple Minds: Sparkle In The Rain
Kirsty MacColl: Kite, Electric Landlady, Galore (Steve's wife and another "Best Of." Most of the singles are from previous albums Steve produced.)
Big Country: The Crossing, Steeltown
The Pogues: If I Should From Grace With God, Peace & Love
Psychedelic Furs: Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk Talk
Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Scream
Talking Heads: Naked
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (The one with "Biko" on it)
Dave Matthews Band: Under The Table & Dreaming, Crash
Climie Fisher: a few songs from Everything
Penetration: Coming Up For Air
The La's: The La's
The Rolling Stones: Dirty Work
Johnny Thunders: So Alone
The Smiths: mixed the "Ask" single
Joan Armatrading: Walk under Ladders
Marshall Crenshaw: Field Day
Thompson Twins: Sidekicks
Travis: Good Feelings
World Party: Bang!
XTC: Drums & Wires, Black Sea

[Calimero jr.]

Steve Albini-did In Utero and I think some REM.

He also produced Surfer Rosa for the Pixies, the sound on that album is spectacular !! (y)

[muddfoot]

Most of my favorites have been listed already but I've got a few more.

Jumbo The Garbageman- Lifesavas/Quannum

John Elliot- from a group called Dessau. I'm not big into industrial music but this mans music sounds amazing.

Jam Master Jay- the man made the beats with his hands, need I say more

Mike Clark- PDM

Esham- I've never seen another mc put out so many albums while producing his own beats.

[SwimFinFan]

Flood - Depeche Mode, Erasure, NIN, U2, Smashing Pumpkins

[vanillgorilla]

def. everybody you guys said.......but I guess id have to say The Neptunes are my all time favorite..... (y)

[roosta]

RZA - OK, he fell off recently, but this only served to highlight how good he was. On his day no one could touch him

DJ Premier - The most consistant, no doubt. Simply delivers everytime

DJ Shadow - Genius

Pete Rock - Similar to Primo.

Kanye West - Inventive.

MF Doom - The most under-rated out at the moment

[Vladimir]

In no order:
DJ Shadow, DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist, Chief Xcel, RJD2, Dust Bros., lots more...

is this question limited to hip-hop producers or generalized producers? Hip-hop producers and producers of other forms are really not doing the same job at all.

[dave790]

I like some of Gil Norton's work, nothing recent though. I also think Dizzee Rascal does a nice job on his own shit, and Mario C for his input into the 3 Beasties records.

[Parkey]

At the moment; Diplo. Before now; too many to mention.

[Documad]

I like what Jimmy Page did for Zeppelin.
Yes. And he taught everyone else too.

Mutt Lange
Glyn Johns
Jimmy Miller

I don't much like George Martin, largely because he's so damn full of himself and because Sgt. Pepper is my most overrated album of all time. His stuff with Paul solo was sicky sweet--Paul at his worst. Granted, the band would have had no idea what they were doing and they needed an experienced producer, but even from George Martin's self-serving account, he was always trying to talk them into stupid shit that thank god they rejected. Plus he never appreciated George Harrison. Dumb bastard.

[SIKE]

in no particular order...

primo
rza
el p
prince paul
bomb squad
beatnuts
beastie boys
organized noise
sam sever
dj shadow
sd 50's
kanye west
dre
neptunes

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[Defjuxiste]

In no order:

DJ Krush
DJ Shadaw
Edan
Blueprint
DJ Premier
The Herbaliser
RJD2
The Beastie Boys
DFA
El-P
Dan The Automator
Prince Paul