so I started mine after watching a TikTok (I am very trendy) about different hip-hop and EDM producer tags (video ws by Sin & Brook if anyone is curious, and no I can’t now find the video in question).
Yes I think it would be interesting to identify tracks that use these little audio “signatures”; most of the time it’s already known that the producer produced that song.
Why? Well because not every track by a producer will have one of these audio “tags”, they can also change as they progress in their career.
They seem to have started sometime in the 2000’s from my very light research, and Genius already has begun the process of documenting the variations (but not the apperances - which is something we can do):
https://genius.com/Rap-genius-producer-tags-directory-annotated
So yeah, I think we’re all clear now as to what we mean by “Producer Tag”.
I only have done two so far, I’ll be honest I’ve not been listening to as much hip-hop recently and its on my list to go through at least my hip-hop playlist on Spotify to identify more, it’s cool to see others care about this stuff certainly for other genres (like K-Pop who also adopted this practice).
The next question is what about tagging producer tags that are not a repeated sample/vocal stab but a particular style… this might be impossible and too messy, but an example would be Pharrell Williams stuttered-beat that is used in many of his/Neptunes produced tracks:
