Best Sounding Albums-Tracks in Dance Music History

[Mr-Bit]

I've been using various Tipper tunes and Infected Mushroom IM the Supervisor to setup my PA recently.

[spanktron]

Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack - duh.

Did you read what i am asking in the post?
Not the music one likes the most. Only the Best Sounding, Best Mastered, Best Mixdown.

Saturday Night Fever even though we all love it i really wouldn`t call a milestone mixdown balance, mastering, production wise. There are a lot better ones

Don`t get me wrong i love the movie and the music but i am not looking for that in this thread

Thanks for the suggestion though

[spanktron]

I've been using various Tipper tunes and Infected Mushroom IM the Supervisor to setup my PA recently.

Tipper. I listened to his latest ep. Forgot the name. He does amazing sound design. BUT

While listening i thought "hmmm that track sounds cool but also pretty flat and harsh"
so i opened Ozone in order to see the dynamics in the meters. The song was playing between -2 db Rms and peaking at +1 db (yes you read correctly. 1 above zero)

So after i saw this plus the fact that my ears hurt after 2 minutes in the track when listened loud make me Exclude mr Tipper from the "Reference mixdowns, Mastering accomplishments" list

No but thanks no. This is as awful as a lot of modern DnB tracks right now, that move in the 1-3 Db rms range. This ALWAYS sounds worse than more dynamic material to me.

To me if you want really loud 5db rms is the magical limit. Everything with less dynamics is non enjoyable. And 7-8 DR is more beautiful and still loud and "compact".
1-2 db rms? HELL NO"""!!!!!!!!!

Once again i clarify, this is only my opinion and taste

[Tarekith]

That's one reason I listed his earlier albums, they're loud but not as flat sounding as his newer ones have been. His last 2-3 EPs and albums definitely don't sound as good as his earlier works to me.