Favorite artists sound design/production-wise right now?

[Manic Harmonic]

I'm getting really into fine-tuning and polishing my tracks right now, and I'm having a lot of fun designing my own sounds and transitions rather than using presets. Looking for some interesting influence as far as that goes.

Here's mine right now:
-Telefon Tel Aviv will probably always be my favorite.
-Boards of Canada always.
-Apparat
-Amon Tobin always.
-I've always loved some of the Silversun Pickups' ambience in some of there songs, especially the Pikul EP.
-Hecq. Most of his stuff is way to out there for me, but sound design-wise, he's killer.
-eDIT
-Morcheeba's songs are always very well put-together and produced without being over-produced IMO.
-Moby's new album Destroyed
-Infected Mushroom always
-Last but not least, Billy Corgan, his older stuff at least, I hate how he took the wall of sound idea and applied it to his vocals on the new album though. Yuck

[wub]

Brenmar

Only one that instantly springs to mind right now tbh.

[Shum]

Autechre

[Manic Harmonic]

Autechre

i've never understood them to be perfectly honest, any particularly impressive track? i have some of there songs. Oh and another one that's great for the occasional listen: future sound of london.

[ambinate]

trifonic are incredible producers, their sound design is consistently some of the best i've heard. jon hopkins is absolutely up there, too.

[wub]

Autechre

I've mentioned these before, but both the Sound on Sound articles about them have been awesome reads;

1) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/a ... techre.htm

2) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_ar ... echre.html

Check their mad crazy screenshots too

[Manic Harmonic]

Autechre

I've mentioned these before, but both the Sound on Sound articles about them have been awesome reads;

1) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/a ... techre.htm

2) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_ar ... echre.html

Check their mad crazy screenshots too

ooooh my god... i can't even begin to imagine what all that is for. Especially the Max/MSP part, I've never really understood that. But I'll be learning soon when i start school

[Shum]

<3 those SOS interviews. It's a shame that they haven't interviewed them recently given how their sound has progressed so much in the last decade.

That Old Apparatus release deserves a mention as well as that guy who did the 1-bit symphony stuff.

[wub]

<3 those SOS interviews. It's a shame that they haven't interviewed them recently given how their sound has progressed so much in the last decade.

I found a couple of more recent interviews;

Dazed Digital (2010) - http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/artic ... hre-return (bit short)
The Quietus (2010) - http://thequietus.com/articles/04018-au ... -oversteps
Clash Music (2010) - http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/autechre-interview
Tiny Mix Tapes (2010) - http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/autechre

And some older ones;

Pitchfork (2008) - http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6788-autechre/
BBC - http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6788-autechre/
Barcodezine (2008) - http://www.barcodezine.com/Autechre%20Interview.htm

[Ongelegen]

My 2 favorite, not necessarily in this order

Amon Tobin
Current Value/Machine Code/Underhill

EDIT: also loving the sound design of Katharsys

[Augment]

Amon Tobin, both production and sound dessign wise.
And KOAN sound. epic stuff
PS. imagine a collab between them

[Morrello]

Agreed with all who have been mentioned so far.

Two of my favs -

Plaid
Clark

[bassinine]

animal collective, and radiohead - johnny is a mad genius. and my blood valentine, even though their sound has been mimicked 1000x over. I've always loved massive attack's sounds too.

[Wrigzilla]

Amon Tobin and Phace spring to mind.

[tylerblue]

I'm not sure I've heard anyone close to Amon Tobin in terms of sound design. Listening to his songs is literally listening to the mind of a genius.

[3za]

Amon Tobin

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[Lectric]

Trentemoller. great sound design skills go into those tracks. take you into a damn other world.

OH AND SKIRRLECKS OBVIOUSLY

[wayoftheworld]

Left Brain, one of the odd future producers is really doing it for me at the moment. Cites his influences as Flying Lotus and old g funk.





Also, Soosh. and S.Maharba.

[hifi]

I'm getting really into fine-tuning and polishing my tracks right now, and I'm having a lot of fun designing my own sounds and transitions rather than using presets. Looking for some interesting influence as far as that goes.

Here's mine right now:
-Telefon Tel Aviv will probably always be my favorite.
-Boards of Canada always.
-Apparat
-Amon Tobin always.
-I've always loved some of the Silversun Pickups' ambience in some of there songs, especially the Pikul EP.
-Hecq. Most of his stuff is way to out there for me, but sound design-wise, he's killer.
-eDIT
-Morcheeba's songs are always very well put-together and produced without being over-produced IMO.
-Moby's new album Destroyed
-Infected Mushroom always
-Last but not least, Billy Corgan, his older stuff at least, I hate how he took the wall of sound idea and applied it to his vocals on the new album though. Yuck

flying lotus, koan sound, shlohmo

[hudson]

Trentemoller. great sound design skills go into those tracks. take you into a damn other world.

Fucking eh. The Last Resort is one of my favorite albums of all time... got me into electronic music. There's so much detail in his music, I envy his ears