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Loopmasters Presents Vibe
Series – Acid Rock £30
We’ve gotta lot of love for Loopmasters’ Vibe
Series. From soul allnighter packs to outlaw
country sessions, each volume manages to
capture a distinct time period and sound ripe
for sampling. For its latest instalment the
team drop a heavy tab or two of freaky ’60s
psych your way. As you’d hope, it’s awash
with reverbed drones, wailing guitars, heavy
drums and far-out bass licks. Speeds build
from 100 to 133bpm, and all the funky,
warped sonics have a twisted Nuggets-era,
garage rock swagger to suit tough and moody
beatmakers the world over. It’s 2GB of fuzzy
goodness guaranteed to freak out squares or
your money back, man. Roy Spencer
loopmasters.com
VERDICT 8.0
Loopmasters – Jazz Drums
Vol. 2 Mark Fletcher £25
Ronnie Scott regular Mark Fletcher pulls
up a stool once more and treats all you
cats to another masterclass of cool jazz
drumming. As with volume one of this
increasingly vital series, he offers up the
kind of deft brush work, varied time
signatures, and in-the-pocket playing that
has always marked him out as a
heavyweight sticksman on the scene. The
playing is fluid, the styles take in all types
of modern and classic workouts, and the
results make for a treasure trove of sweet
loops and hits. It’s 1GB of smokey
club-style playing that will slide real nice
into any smooth grooves you’re working on.
Also included are 99 drum chops, 342
Rex2 Files and eight soft sampler patches
for Kontakt, Halion, NNXT, EXS24 and
Sfz, daddio. Roy Spencer
loopmasters.com
VERDICT 8.0
Sample Magic – Old
Skool Grime £15
Dang, anyone else feeling old when you
see that grime has an ‘old skool’?
Anyways, all you whipper snappers out
there not old enough to have raved around
the late ’90s the first time, get a second
chance on this peng new pack of rewound,
raggariffic 2-step and ting. Mixing up dat
retro UK funky sound with the finest
underground London had to offer
back-in-the-days, you get more than
450MB of WAV, MIDI, custom-made stabs
and synth one-shots curated for Ableton
Racks. Also included are music loops,
drum hits, and champagne-room ready
bass and synth loops. The sounds are fat,
and ready to light up the floor, so if you’re
looking to stock up on some of that pirate
material to kit out your next banger with,
get right on this one. Roy Spencer
samplemagic.com
VERDICT 8.0
Whitenoise Records – Halloween
Sounds
£10
As you read this, All Hallows’ Eve will have
sadly passed. And as the pumpkins quietly
rot in their piles, and the memory of a
student Frankenstein vomiting in a shop
doorway fades from memory, you may
never want to think of October 31 again.
But, if you’re like us, and love the sound of
ghosts, goblins, witches and warlocks,
you’ll want to keep the sounds of this
holiday spooktacular ringing in your ears.
Thankfully the boys and ghouls at
Whitenoise Records have just the sample
pack to add to your next monster mash up.
There’s creepy screams, eerie storms,
sinister music box melodies, and plenty of
other crepuscular creeks and screeches to
keep your dancehall haunted. Perfect for
you Thriller seekers out there. Enjoy. Well, I
say enjoy…[maniacal laugh]. Roy Spencer
sounds.beatport.com
VERDICT 7.0
Audiotent – Voltage
£37
Looking to add the raw power of the Moog
DFAM to your productions, but don’t fancy
dropping the fat end of £500 on the real
thing? Why, then you need Audiotent in
your life, good sir/madam. For a fraction of
the price you can pick up over 270 WAV
loops in this inspired pack that captures
the heavyweight industrial tones of this
wonderful unit with pin-point accuracy.
From drum elements to bass and synth
sequences, all the noises expertly wrung
from this Drummer From Another Mother
come in either raw-bone baddassness, or
arrive lovingly sluiced through an enviable
chain of prized analogue gear like the
Roland RE-201 Space Echo and
Looptrotter Monster Compressor. Either
way, you’ll be astounded by the clarity and
punch on offer. Roy Spencer
audiotent.com
VERDICT 9.0
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