Album Rating: 5.0
While the difference between a DJ and a producer may be obvious to some, it can be confusing to someone who is new to electronic dance music and with the amount of technology DJs have at their disposal the line is slightly blurred. The key difference is that a producer creates music in a studio and a DJ takes already-created music and mixes them together. Let’s examine the differences further:
DJ
A DJ plays and mixes music together. A DJ may use effects, looping, and other techniques to change the sound or structure of a track. However, they are not creating the music as they play in a club or festival.
Producer
A producer creates music in a studio using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Such programs include Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, and Live. They produce their own original works and also remix other producer’s tracks when they are provided with remix stems. Once a track is completed a producer sends it to a label to be sold commercially.
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Kruder & Dorf, Portishead, Tricky, UNKLE, Amon Tobin, Lamb, Skalpel, Red Snapper, Bonobo, Backini, Kid Loco, Roots Manuva, Sofa Surfers, Quantic, Smoke City, Sneaker Pimps, Soulstice, Thievery Corp, Koop, King Kooba, Attica Blues, Agent 5.1, Baby Namboos, Goldfrapp, Break Reform, Cibo Matto, De-Phazz, Dzihan and Kamien, Herbaliser, Harmonic 33, Hooverphonic, Sixtoo, Nightmares on Wax, Waiwan...
The problem for me is this functions better as both a plunderphonics record and an instrumental hip hop record than it does a trip hop record - it's missing key ingredients that make up what for me is the vast spectrum of quintessential trip hop (and similar derivative) sounds. I have it 5'd so clearly I still think it's a classic in its own right but when people herald it as the definitive trip-hop album it's not really doing the stylings of this record justice nor is it doing the expansiveness of trip-hop justice.
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