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Drum & Bass Page 1/3
| Produced by | Beatnik |  |
| Audio | 70.04 | |
| Tracks | 54 | |
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Released |
1998 |
Modular Series - 004 Drum & Bass is the first release we've looked at from UK sample CD company Beatnik. It's actually one of several releases in their modular series, reviews of the others will be along in due course!. Drum & Bass is described as "If the Music of Good Looking Records, Roni-Size and Adam F are your thing, then the chances are that you'll understand where Modular Sampler 004 'Drum+Bass' is coming from. Looking to the future rather than sticking with past formulas, Drum+Bass takes a fresh look at Jungle Sample CDs.
Incorporating many live elements such as Drum Patterns and Variations, Sax and Keyboard Licks, along with some excellent Sub Basses, Dream Pads and excellent Construction kits, - before moving to the Darker Side for some harsh reality FX, Pads and Breaks. Loads of single Hit Sounds, Basses, Drum Hits, Rhodes and Whirly patterns and Multi's are provided, and of course everything is provided with GM compatible Midi-Files so you can make your own edits before you fill the dance floor."
The collection is a 2CD release, offering construction sets, loops kits plus a variety of individual sounds. The first CD presenting the samples in audio format and the second containing the same material but in .Wav version files, and rather more unusually a number of midi files to tie everything together. Retailing at £39.95, the CD sits somewhere between a full price release and a budget offering, though at least quantity wise you get what you might expect from a full price sample CD.
The collection has been put together by Matt P from Ruff-Cut studios, there is no biographical information so can't tell you anymore about the producers background at all. If anyone knows please let me know !
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The documentation is excellent. Running to some 24 pages, every sample is listed out with a descriptive name, together with track number, BPM, Key, Midi file and .Wav file. Really everything you could ask for, and does make it a very easy to use collection. In particular as you get the midi files to tie things together, its very straightforward to link the sound files with them in no time.
The licence agreement is pretty much standard with no unusual terms in it.
There is no demo track, though the construction kits in full are demos in their own right so a demo track would have been rather superfluous. Track 54 is a maximum level test tone.
