Best grime producers

[gumdrops]

i have decided.

wiley - genius, and great beats yes, but can be too quirky.
terror - genius, but brilliant as they are, sometimes only incrementally diff.
rapid however - wall to wall bangers, raw, rough and ready, no nonsense grime. and he also has two quite diff eras (compare gnr 1 to gnr 2) - the earlier anna/down/pied pier synth melody stuff, and then the second era of purely percussive, skeletal forward rushing stuff like underground and some of the walloping almost ghetto tech type patterns on gnr 2 etc. what also really did it for me is that hes produced prob more brilliant grime vocals for ruff sqwad than wiley has for roll deep, or terror has for any of his artists. i dont know how much that has to do with his skills as a producer or if its just ruff sqwad, but either way, its a good look.
so its rapid.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Haha I thought this thread had died, wasn't really expecting to see it back.
Great explanation, Gumdrops!

 

[baboon2004]

weird no-one voted for target... :slanted:

 

[Diggedy Derek]

Whats the details, wasn't he supposed to have 'borrowed' platoon and feedback from Lewi White or something?

Well, the Sidewinder Rhythm for "Merkle Man" he borrowed off Wiley, but that's well known I think.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Every time this poll comes back I just feel more embarassed. Someone with more of an idea what they were doing should have made it.

 

[gumdrops]

weird no-one voted for target... :slanted:

overrated. early riddims were great but a lot of aim high is too polished/wanna be the uk timbo/neptunes-ish.

 

[CrowleyHead]

overrated. early riddims were great but a lot of aim high is too polished/wanna be the uk timbo/neptunes-ish.

Agreed.

Admittedly, I got into grime late, and I kept seeing Target come up and I would go "Guh! Really!?!?"

 

[gumdrops]

you know what, it is actually dexplicit. listening to his dexplicit content albums now - hes basically grime at its rawest/most exciting. (hopefully i havent posted this before, though i think im starting to repeat myself on this forum now). pow is a bit overrated really but things like firebell and bars are like top 10 grime beats.

 

[Tentative Andy]

Stop bumping my ignorant old threads please ....

 

[Webstarr]

very surprised no-one voted Davinche, he's up there with the very best of them

 

[outraygeous]

Foots >>>>>>>>>>>>>

not because he isnt on this list but his beats are far too deep

 

[CrowleyHead]

Is Dot worth mentioning? I know he's done a lot of asinine stuff, but "Bazooka", "Wild Life", "Rotten & Voltage"... "Erg Yeah" as someone said earlier in the thread. And, there's that one... "Chinese Dreams" I think?

 

[paolo]

Best ever? Wiley

Wiley Wiley Wiley

 

[Phaedo]

Wiley for consistency, Youngstar is a personal favorite though.

 

[trilliam]

rapid every time

 

[dave quam]

ripperman, blackjack, danny weed, low deep, and iron soul.