Summary - Audio quality is excellent. The sounds (except the Ethno scapes) are all studio recorded. As the producers point out, many "Ethnic" samples are recorded on site and you get residual ambience that may or may not add to the sound. Here though the sounds have no such artefacts, and if anything sound rather dry. Certainly some of the sounds come to life with some effects applied, I certainly like the "haunting didgeridoo across the valley" type sound for example that this allows. This no doubt is the intention of the producers to allow more creative use of the samples.

This collection covers a narrow selection of instruments and gives the user a wide choice of sounds from within the chosen sounds. The appeal is broadened somewhat than the title may suggest by the addition of numerous samples from such instruments as the Jaws Harp and Birrembow. Additionally the producers may have done themselves a disservice by tagging "Dance" on the title, because I feel this collection will appeal to most anyone who is interested in adding an ethnic touch to a track, be it strictly a dance genre or not. Certainly film soundtrack, multimedia, ambient, trance producers will all find a lot of usable material here.

I can't really find anything bad to say about the collection at all, the producers have chosen a specific niche and filled it excellently.

I guess there is a little bit of sameness about some of the samples, but only in the same sense that there is a sameness about any other collection of sounds made from the same instrument. Also there wasn't really anything that stood out and grabbed me, that's not necessarily a bad thing mind, these sounds aren't meant to dominate a track, but more to blend in and add a unique flavour. Probably the pick of the collection for me was the ethnoscapes, some of which are very evocative, actually good examples no doubt of how some of the other samples could be used to enhance a track/ambience.

One thing that did strike me though is that I can just imagine one of these samples appearing on next years smash summer dance track and then everyone will want to use this type of sample and it'll be a cliché before you know it.

I wouldn't recommend this release as an early addition to a sample library, unless your mad keen on the subject matter, but it's certainly something that would enhance a sample library and maybe add that missing touch to a track.

Overall - Excellent collection of didgeridoo and ethnic type samples that aren't limited to the dance sector - 8/10