Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
What is it with these records. If they cleaned up the production, it would be better. Distortion does not make something hard.
It just makes it distorted.
Can work brilliantly sometimes, the Chan n Mikes track posted above is a good example of this - yes sometimes distortion wrecks a track, but sometimes it works well too.

Production values, I'm only impressed to a point, what counts for me is sheer inventiveness and experimentalism. Ruff sometimes sounds wicked, how many class tracks have been pressed from bad recordings? Enough to show there's more to good music than shimmering production that's for sure.