Podcast 004 – Starring Ville Lope

This episode: Ville Lope in the mix.

Finnish trance, funky house and fresh chillout. Download the fourth episode!

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The december episode of Innotune is a collection of crazy house, Norwegian funk, nasty breaks, Scandinavian trance and a tiny piece of dubstep. We’ve got new music from Deadmau5, Michael Woods and our very own Thomas Sagstad, to mention a few.

The DJ mix in the end is done by Innotune resident Ville Lope, a Finnish guarantee for quality trance. He brings you a mix consisting of Scandinavian material only!

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Rise of superstar producers

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Why is everybody talking about producing instead of composing these days?

Even media is talking about producers, Timbaland being the one mentioned the most. Now that even the normal radio listener can spot the “Timbaland sound”, It’s fair to say we have seen the rise of superstar producers.

How can this be seen in EDM? Now there’s loads of youngsters (or more established producers) mimicking other producers, Deadmau5 and Sean Tyas are the prime examples of this.

Deadmau5 sound is really easy to spot – and to (re)produce – that should be the reason the sound can be now heard in every DJ’s sets playing around 130 bpm.

The other sound is pounding energetic Sean Tyas’ trance sound. The sound has developed from Paul Van Dyk’s pounding trance style, evolved on PVD’s Vandit label and John Askew’s Discover label and now – championed by Sean Tyas.

Now I can hear the subtle hints of trance/progressive/techno blending to each other with a hint of house in it. Producers like Jaytech and Joonas Hahmo are taking this style further by every release and remix. Are track’s being overproduced these days? Are producers concentrating on melodies enough these days?

What do you think? Leave a comment!