Ha, I definitely should have mentioned Greg Kurstin as an obvious throughline! It's funny, at the time I was excited by Kurstin's involvement in pop production (esp w Lily Allen) because of Geggy Tah, hadn't really clocked him as a major pop producer yet, though that was happening at about the same time. IIRC I didn't start to really notice how major he'd gotten until about 2009, with the second Lily Allen album and the second Bird and the Bee album.
I didn't know who he was but that makes sense, when I bought a TD-3 a few years ago I started hearing the 303 sound everywhere and nowhere more clearly than on It's Not Me It's You - and one of the many best bits of Candy Eyed is when the bass sequencer crashes the party on Dancin' For.
Ha, I definitely should have mentioned Greg Kurstin as an obvious throughline! It's funny, at the time I was excited by Kurstin's involvement in pop production (esp w Lily Allen) because of Geggy Tah, hadn't really clocked him as a major pop producer yet, though that was happening at about the same time. IIRC I didn't start to really notice how major he'd gotten until about 2009, with the second Lily Allen album and the second Bird and the Bee album.
I didn't know who he was but that makes sense, when I bought a TD-3 a few years ago I started hearing the 303 sound everywhere and nowhere more clearly than on It's Not Me It's You - and one of the many best bits of Candy Eyed is when the bass sequencer crashes the party on Dancin' For.