Other than not taking the time to see how many people are reading our blog – I’ve been phenomenally busy. As has Dean.
In case you somehow missed it, we’ve released our first sound pack, Bombs and Bits, a nice 10 pack of free hip hop loops, and we put the entire store on sale for the holidays. You’ve got a week left on that.
The Sound Pack concept has gone well enough for us to explore it further – we will be doing a series of Battery/Live kits with sounds originating from different locales across the U.S. First up, Detroit. Dean spent a few days living in a cardboard box in a Detroit alley with an expensive portable recorder. You can hear him fighting off the homeless, and even serving a few people in a full on urban dance off to the death. I’m kidding, he has family there and happened to have his digital recorder with him. Regardless, all the sounds in our upcoming sound pack originate in Detroit. We will be doing the same for Chicago, New York, and possibly L.A. or San Francisco. I could use some sun.
Also in the works is what I’ll call, for lack of a better title, a beat-off. Corey has recorded (played live) 10 separate loop ideas. He will be editing them into functional loops while retaining the live feel. He is then going to hand over the source tracks to Sega, Dean, and myself at which point we will beat off for a few weeks and completely recreate new and hopefully exciting variations of his original loops. With no rules. They will sound nothing like what Corey played and wander far, far away into the lands of IDM, Breakbeat, maybe even a bit of Jungle. So – 10 original live loops with 9 re-sequenced versions of each loop. Plus a ton of individual samples and B3 kits. Looking forward to this.
And lastly, my good friend Matt Cordier and I are going to do some sampling in early Jan. in what looks to be the start of a massive Dark Downtempo release. Dark Downtempo 1 and 2 are easily our best selling individual kits and I think it’d be worth everyone’s time if I did a full release of that nature. So, we’re talking about 40-50 loops and a ton of variations and construction elements. We’ve bought a Placid Audio Copperphone to help make things even more interesting.
That’s all I’ve got, have a wonderful holiday and Thank You for supporting what we’re doing!