It's a smooth presence that makes workmanlike beats sound like taut head-nodders and meticulously crafted production like pure cinema. His new album, Pro Tools, is another in a line of notoriously delayed Wu-Tang-affiliated records; as a result, instead of being greeted with excitement it's being considered the work of a guy with something to prove.
What Pro Tools does prove is that the Genius is still lyrically sharp. The conceptual rhymes he's known for work well without getting too overbearing, and GZA still has a knack for building metaphors without stretching them thin. And the title of "Columbian Ties" looks like a typo until it becomes clear that he's switched the rise-and-fall-of-a-hustler references from victims of Bogota cartels to people killed from D. He needed a sparring partner within it, someone to sharpen his sword.
He needed every one. Or, perhaps, no one wanted to rap after him. His calm is crushing. There are rappers who record more features in a year than he did in decades. Perhaps, the scarcity of guest appearances is a testament to his reverence for the art. If GZA had nothing to contribute, he would remain silent.
But when he appeared, he was unforgettable. Like the best chess players, GZA needed to compete against multiple rappers to feel challenged, to push himself. Banner under pressure. More rock-oriented than most of the producers listed, this British producer earned his name producing critically acclaimed indie bands like the Rapture, Bloc Party and Friendly Fires.
Though Ronson has worked with many well-known artists, his name may always be linked with that of the late Amy Winehouse. Interestingly, Ronson recorded most of the album to analog tape before transferring the songs to Pro Tools for fine-tuning. One of the most original producers on this list, Danger Mouse often combines the roles of artist, songwriter and producer. Coming to prominence as a hip-hop producer, Danger Mouse quickly showed a gift for mixing modern sounds with soul, film music and even s glam-rock.
Outside of his own bands, his biggest successes to date are hit collaborative albums with the Black Keys, Gorillaz and Norah Jones.
Danger Mouse uses the studio to create a mysterious, unpredictable sound that blurs the line between digital and analog instruments. Astute readers will notice that these producers collectively represent virtually every musical trend and genre of the past twenty years. This is a key clue to the fact that Pro Tools skills are indispensable to anyone who wants to record music professionally.
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