Every time I go to Soundclick to check the instrumentals charts, I discover that the majority of the TOP producers are living in an overseas country -- mostly UK and Germany with a few others (Rapitfly and Vans Beats come to mind, but there are tons of others).


I guess this seems to make sense. After all, Native Instruments and Steinberg both hail from Germany. Plenty of professional plug-in companies run out of the UK as well, even though specific names aren't coming up in my head. Seems like they have an ear for good sound over there.


My question is this: Why can't American producers be like that? My hypothesis is that we've got this "full-of-ourselves" attitude over here that prevents us from trying to get better (cuz we are the **** after all right?), and all we're doing is deluding ourselves into feeling like we can do something good.

And a personal note: Stop using 808/909 snares so liberally. Its ****ing annoying.