Na, I don’t care, the production on “Into You” is rad and the mix sounds great, plus she has the best ponytail mojo, what do you want from me? And Serban Ghenea crushed it (not with a limiter, with skills).įirst and foremost the bass drum is perfect. Why not “this guy” or “that guy,” “what about Crosby?” I can sense from here the pushback against the blatantly pop slant of this choice. So, my personal pick for one of the best constructed mixes of 2016 is: Let’s just ignore that last point and keep on our quest for the sublime, shall we? Two things come to mind immediately:ġ/ It seems hard to have a good bottom-end on your song (we knew that already)Ģ/ It does not seem to matter that much for the success of a song considering how emasculated most of these chart topping track are To focus on sound, it’s interesting to compare the bottom-end of all that stuff. Do it just to get first hand information. Don’t you think? Please do take at least 30 minutes and needle drop thru the first 30 tracks. The HITS OF 2016 playlist sounds extremely random to me both in songs and in sound. Isn’t it amazing how all over the place everything sounds? So much for the traditional cocktail hour conversation about “everything being so homogenized” and “labels keep putting the same song out over and over again just with a different name” or “It’s the same three guys who do all that stuff.” It’s simply not true.
It’s interesting to take an afternoon (or two if you are thorough) and go through a playlist like this one (I picked this one because it’s not curated by a label or hipster magazine trying to convince you of what THEY think should be successful)Īnything hit you right off the bat? (this hits me everytime): Lots of dos and don’ts to be discovered, inspiration and a solid education on the amazingly wide range of stuff that is being released and promoted these days.
It’s a lot of work to sift through all of 2016’s music but it’s worth it.
The US charts (the ones I know best at this point) blossomed with grooves imported from elsewhere in the world, providing much needed variety and, hold onto your chair (hold on better please) quite few really good sounding tracks were released. They stuck out.įor example, I feel there was an uptick in originality in music, or at least artists got bolder in their choices on tones and colors or grooves. NO! There were isolated signs of not sucking here and there. Aaaaah, 2016, what an awful awful year, BUT! Not everything sucked.
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