Methods of Mayhem
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Tribal Dusseldorf - 3
tracks - Somewhat change of tack here as we have Kraftwerk style loops,
somewhat open sounding with light percussive effects and synth blips and
bass lines.
Bass Guitar - 2
tracks - A whole variety of rapid bass lines in differing styles and sounds,
at 130 & 150 BPM, from overdriven, slurred, muffled and so on. My
only criticism is that there isn't enough, very good.
Mouth Control - 4
tracks - More loops, from 120-160 BPM that have been effected to sound
vaguely vocal like. Mostly quite open sounding, these like many of the
offerings on the CD, sound just a little different from your normal loops.
Some have been sourced from a Roland 606, while the last track contains
vocalish sounding riffs.
Knob Control - 1
track - Quite long synth arpeggios that are altered in differing ways
as they play along by altering the filters. Quite interesting effects
here, and if you don't like the extremes of the alterations you can just
sample the earlier parts.
Dirtscapes - 3
tracks - Atmospheres and pad type sounds that are noisy, dirty and pretty
much fit the description very well. How you might use some of these sounds
is another question, perhaps more suitable for soundtrack work, but if
your looking for this effect there are some excellent sounds here.
Gain Control - 2
tracks - Assorted feedback and squeal effects that sound suitably horrible.
Skip if you have a hangover !
Ground Control - 1
tracks - A collection of hums and hiss type sounds, rather akin to the
dirtscape section.
Electro Harmonix Noise - 2
tracks - More screeches and scrapes make for uncomfortable listening.
Not quite sure how you might use some of these sounds, but if its an effect
your after...
Old School - 1
track - A dozen metallic hit sounds, very powerful sounding.
Analogue Percussive - 8
tracks - 24 assorted kick drums, 12 "chunk" sounds, heavy blip/squeak
sounds, 12 clicks, 12 "dunks", electronic sounding hits, and
36 percussive effects, short electronic blips, hits, clangs, scratches
and noises. All sourced from analogue equipment, and could be used in
a whole variety of music styles, from Kraftwerk to Industrial.
Misc Drumb Sounds - 3
tracks - 36 assorted kicks, snares and hits, somewhat more realistic sounding
than the analogue percussion section.
Single Analogue Sounds - 8
tracks - This section starts off with a dozen bass sounds, some of which
are rather noisy, though otherwise very usable. Next we have 7 tracks
of multisampled analogue sounds, 4 tracks of long sounds and 3 of short.
Most are multisampled 3 times though a few only twice. Most of the sounds
are fairly simple classic sounding analogue tones. There are few real
"wow" sounds here, most being fairly straightforward, however
that does make for mixing into a track a little easier.
Shortcuts - 4
tracks - Lots of short synth blips, hits, chords and squeaks. Ripe for
making up into arpeggio's or parts of a rhythm loop.
LFO FX - 1
track - Assorted sounds that have their LFO altered throughout to produce
some interesting effects.
Old Control - 3
tracks - Samples, often quite noisy, sourced from old 40's and 50's films,
if you can imagine an old Sci-fi B or Horror movie, then these are the
sorts of sound effects and musical effects that are here. Again a little
different if your looking for an odd effect like this. Does rather make
a lie of the cover though "...unheard sounds...", though we'll
give the producer some licence !
Talk the Talk - 6
tracks - Similar to the previous section these are vocal snippets from
40's and 50's films, again imagine an old Sci-fi or horror movie trailer
or film. Rather naive sounding these days and rather camp, an interesting
effect to drop into a track.
Extra Roots FX
- 3 tracks - A track of heavily vocoded robot like voices and two tracks
of assorted synthesised effects that I guess didn't fit in anywhere else.
There is no test tone on this CD.
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