favorite producer

bruv im tryin not to slam you here but your talking absolute bollocks. the difficulty when your producing is not the longevity of the sound, but making your own sound. when that symbol just won't lineup with the rest of the beat. when you just can't get that effect to cut oput in time. those are the difficult things.

the strange thing is that actually making a trance beat is alot easier than making a hip[ hop beat. usually when ur making a hip hop beat it can very easily just drift into trance and you have to hold yourself back. you want to make an overly elaborte beat, but 9 times out of 10 they just don't work. thats the real challenge to a producer.

so if you have barely any experience making your own beats, please don't attempt to comment on complexity, the simple beats are quite often the ones that are the most difficult to make.

true, it doesnt take a genius. but like i said above, it all started pretty simple and it still is. i like it because of the few things needed to have nice music. still there are some geniuses even in producing hiphop, creating an atmosphere with their music or go above the 6 seconds you mentioned ;D
but you can see the "no genius" thing even more in the music, people nowadays call hiphop (i mean like crunk and such stuff) these "beats" suck balls !!!
its kinda what you mean, but even worse :P

btw, try dj signify or RJD2 they might go above the 5/6 seconds ;)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJeLG8-M5I&feature=PlayList&p=C2437E6BDC46F278&index=0&playnext=1 <3this one (ofc using loops too, but ...)