He’s always been the go-to producer for artists trying to find the sweet spot in-between critical acceptance and commercial friendliness His 2015 album Uptown Special treads a familiar ground where smooth funk mixes with nu-disco cuts to create a masterful dance-oriented pop album that’ll wow the critics and have the general public shaking their hips like crazy. His production resume includes artists ranging from Amy Winehouse to Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and the man even won a handful of Grammy’s back in 2005 for his work on Winehouse’s seminal Back To Black. ![]() After witnessing Pharrell’s meteoric rise to prominence throughout the past two years, you could easily make a similar case for Mark Ronson achieving the same feat. in the early 2000’s, falls of in the end of the last decade, hooks up with Daft Punk (themselves fellow veterans) for a smooth disco throwback which earns both artists their first number one, before finally becoming the hottest producer in the world in the space of a year. Take Pharrell for instance: well known for his work with The Neptunes and N.E.R.D. The past few years have seen a strange upswing in veteran producers gaining sudden latter day hits via collaborations.
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