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8 June 2008

Dance Diffusion
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Black II Black Killer Vocals - 62 samples - 6 tracks of soulful vocal singing, all but 5 of the samples being from several female singers, and the few male samples are in the same vein. If your looking for this type of "soulful" vocal singing effect then these are fine, as is the norm its hard to get away from rather cliché lines. "Come with me", "Take me all the way", "Spread my love" and "Can't do without it", usual sorts of things. Vocal samples, unless for spot effects, are always going to be difficult to create generically.

Norman Cook - 40 samples - Yes THE Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, Beats International etc. . Though some time before his current fame and fortune. We get 31loops from his "Skip to my loops" collection. Ranging from 84-126 BPM, there is a fair range and variety, though stock dance material, some are fairly rough and scratchy vinyl like sounding, and a couple sound rather familiar, either because of the source or the use, can't tell but recognise a couple. Whilst a little light sounding compared to say some of the recent AMG releases there are some very usable loops in here.

The remain samples are a few assorted effects and some very varied vocal samples - one of which appears on the theme tune of "Aerobics Oz Style", new I knew it from somewhere.

Coldcut - 37 samples - Starts off with a dozen (some very noisy) vocal effects, from robotic to film type extracts. Which could find life as a spot effect somewhere. Next we get 9 loops, from 108-126 BPM, a bit plain compared to the previous section, but not bad. Tracks 43-44 gives us a whole range of little weird stabs, hits, growls scratches and effects, again rather spot or "Art of Noise" type samples.

Pascal Gabriel - 46 samples - 38 solid dance loops from this CD that dates back as far as 1991, the veritable beginning of the Sample CD age, and the samples stand up very well. Again not wholly dissimilar from the Norman Cook samples these too aren't quite of the punch or power of some of the latter day loops we see but solid and usable dance fare in the 92-137 BPM range. The section ends with a few stab and chord like effects.

Global Trance Mission - 36 samples - The final collection of samples consists mainly a number of arpeggio type sample loops from 100-127 BPM (some are rather noisy) - as the title would suggest of the trance variety - from between Tangerine Dream and the acidic 303 squelchline type, there are a couple of good ones in here.

The section rounds out with half a dozen decent pad like effects.A little bit different from the rest of the CD but a nice compliment.

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