anyone ever checked out the Dukes of Stratosphere stuff? (it's basically a side thing for XTC) The production by John Leckie (who would later work with Radiohead) is so both attached to the past, i.e. a lot of late 60s early 70s psych effects, and to the future with synths and flanger/phase effects that only present day technology can create. That's one album I listen for the production.
I have some old producer faves like Bob Johnston who I think produced John Wesley Harding, Songs of Leonard Cohen and some of Neil Young's early records. I can be mistaking him for another guy Jack Nietzsche, but all those records are just some of the warmest "real" sounding records out there. Not much in terms of effects but the sound is just so upfront and there.
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