Captain Tune more like. Is the link here large mixing desks and fine studios?
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Yeah, I get that, but when you’re in the mix and it happens and then everything is 2 bars out, it just irritates me* 
*happened to me yesterday whilst recording a new mix
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Just listened to an FK remix on another thread and he is someone who is head and shoulders above most within dance music for production.
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I was just going to say something like that… Lol
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You reminded me 
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Ah Leftfield and Funktion One, I think that was their original sound system. Rumoured to have been clocked at 137decibels. This was one of my I was there nights, at Brixton Academy. I know it’s not big and it’s not clever but really had ringing in my ears for a few days afterwards. When the first bass notes reached out across the Academy they seemed to travel up from the floor, through your legs and up your body, you could feel them rising. People all over were looking at each other as if to say what the Fuck was that.
Saw them again at Brixton ten years ago and whilst they weren’t so loud I do have a photo of bits of the ceiling that fell down that night as well.
LEFTFIELD’S Neil Barnes recalls his band almost bringing the house down. “We were playing the Paradiso in Amsterdam, a beautiful, historic venue dating back to the 18th century. The people responsible for installing our system had turned the sound up too loud. When we started, this antique bar at the back of the room fell apart. That’s how heavy it was. There were bottles flying and everything. It was chaos.”
So ferocious was the Leftfield live experience that local authorities across Europe banned them. At London’s Brixton Academy, in 1996, the bass was cranked so high that plaster fell from the ceiling. “What nobody realised is that we had no control over the volume,” says Barnes. “Up on stage, you can’t tell how loud it is. And it was intensely loud, just ridiculous. The idea wasn’t to deafen people. It was to give them a good quality sound system. We had a lot of arguments about it at the end. I felt the sound wasn’t representing our music particularly well. On our new tour, it is set to a decent level.”
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I know I’ve posted it before in soundtracks, but the Audio Fidelity Red vinyl of Bladerunner really is a masterpiece of mastering and cutting. One of those wow moments when you first hear it. Also a beautiful translucent Red, completely blows away the old coloured vinyl can’t sound good.
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs9zwqXsceUihme7S8Eg8taVw2lTf1naS
Audio serenity (and another super well cut and mastered colored vinyl).
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I saw them in 96 in Cardiff and the bass was so intense it practically tore through your chest. Back in the day when gigs stunk of weed instead of sweat and beer farts and getting fag burns on clothes and fingers was part and parcel of a good night out!
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So much going on here, just oozes class and joy…Tom Moulton definitely nailed it
Could’ve chosen any one of Marshall Jefferson’s productions, but this one always stands out, amazing to think it was made in 1986 as sounds so now, completely timeless
From the other end of the spectrum…Steve Albini always captured the raw essence so well
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Yes, could be so 
I once read somewhere that Parsons considered engineering Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon as a dress rehearsal for I Robot 
I don’t know if there’s something special about this production or I just love the groove and the delay effects, but I really enjoy playing it loud. What a bass line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXG7Uqr4HFU
I always enjoyed this for the sounds - especially if you have some space between the speakers or you listen on headphones as there’s lots of panning going on. There’s another few songs on the album with lots of exciting panning, but I guess this one has the most synth noises.
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Another ZTT production. Epic. Especially enjoy that noisy bit in the middle.
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Bit obvious but…
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two mega-classics where the production, to my ears, feels effortlessly brilliant. obviously a LOT of money and expertise went into both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omnpu8mzX4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNQYuMun32U
Apparently this was a lot of hi-fi shops choice of test music in the 80s for its dynamic range
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I played this in the main room at Cocktail D’Amore and people went mad when they heard the drums coming in. definitely has an amazing sound to it
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Definitely sounds like Can.
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Boris Blank, what a genius when he was top of his game, the 80-85 new mix in one go LP was my entry point and it completely blew me away in the 80s, this was before the ZTT classics iirc
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