Posts Tagged ‘samples’

Fracture & Neptune mini documentary part 2: Andy’s Shop

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Andy Westbury is a record collector and digging enthusiast from London, England. He has a shop called Eldica Vinyl in Dalston, East London. This is a short film about record shops, digging for breaks and samples and how old sleeve design still influences today’s record labels.

In part two of two mini documentaries Fracture and Neptune take you to their favourite record shop and unearth some beats and bobs. Their album ‘Retrospect – A Decade of Fracture & Neptune’ is released on Astrophonica on 30th May 2011
More info on the album here wp.me/pW1Pu-bL
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facebook.com/pages/Eldica/376105503800

For more information, live dates, biography or interview Q&A’s on Fracture & Neptune / Astrophonica contact This Is Reprise on (0)20 7729 0686 or erin@thisisreprise.com
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Filmed & Edited by Louis Ellison

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Astrophonica and Loopmasters present – Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

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Good evening music producers of Earth. Producers of Earth origin or any other planet in the solar system. Good evening Planet Earth… Are you looking for that classic cosmic sound to your music? Are you wondering how you to make such extraterrestrial bass lines from tunes like The Limit or Hull Breach? Then look no further than Fracture’s Cosmic Drum & Bass sample pack for loopmasters.

I set out to make this sample pack with a very clear vision. I wanted create a pack which married the classic gritty sounds of vintage Drum & Bass with today’s contemporary sound and crystal clear high end production. This ethos and cross pollination of techniques is something that runs very strong in Fracture & Neptune productions and is the building blocks of our label, Astrophonica.

To do this I used a mixture of classic hardware gear including the E-Mu e6400 Sampler (what many people consider as the cornerstone of the 90′s Drum & Bass sound) and high end software such as Logic Pro to bring it all up to date. I wanted to create a sample pack that people will come back to in years to come, not just a collection of loops I already had lying around. Therefore, every loop and sound has been worked on specially for this pack and let me tell you it was often hard work stopping myself turning them into full tunes for my label!

Inside this pack you will find beats, bass lines, synth lines, guitar loops, fx loops and a whole load of one shot samples too. I’ve also included some construction kits which are full loops including all the elements you need to start a track. Lots of the samples have some wonderful hardware processing on them including valve compression and Z-plane filtering from the E-Mu sampler all EQd and tweaked to fit in to your modern day studio set up.

To buy, get more information on formats and to hear demo loops click here

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8 most over-used samples in Hip Hop

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Some great beats in there! What’s your fave? I’ve always been a fan of the Melvin Bliss beat. Anyway, check it out. Maybe we should do a top ten most rinsed jungle samples?

8 most over used samples in Hip Hop history

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Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Here’s a wicked little site with Kon & Amir’s top 50 Hip-Hop samples of all time. Some absolute killers in there which i need in my collection! Particularly the Ray Bryant record, check the reverb!! Oh gosh!

Check it out peeps, it’s a good listen

Kon & Amir’s 50 greatest Hip-Hop samples

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