Todd Edwards is a genius...

1) he's over-rated
2) he's not as responsible for sample-heavy house as people think
3) he's tiring to listen to for long stretches of time
4) he's stuck in a rut
5) just because people think he made 2-step happen doesn't make him more fun to listen to

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Most producers with such a specific schtick are tiring to listen to for long stretches of time.

it just reminds of, like, frankie bones or something. is he madly influential? yes, madly. but is it still fun to listen to the way something like, oh i dunno, ROYAL HOUSE, is? no, not really.

and another thing: over years of listening to todd and being annoyed by todd i've just come to the conclusion that todd doesn't understand space. like, at all. all of his tunes sound utterly flat and compressed to death. his productions have no room to breathe or pop, at all.

but the rest of the edwards productions on there just sound so corny and overdone next to tuff jam's effortless cool. "shut the door" in particular is a shame because it has such a killer vocal turn.

by about half a percent

I never listen to more than a few of his tracks at a time either, that's not really a problem for me...

there is more hairs-on-back-of-neck-standing-up action in a single Todd Edwards track than the entire recorded output of some certain genres...(hello, ambient dub)...which is why it's hard to make it through more than 20 minutes at a time...but it's a good 20 minutes...