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8 June 2008

George Clinton - Soundisc Series
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Mixed Grooves - 143 samples - forms the bulk of the samples on the CD, and their broken down into various sections. Essentially they are drum loops with various parts added, either Bass, Wah Wah, Horns, Guitar, Voice and keyboards. For variation there are also a handful of grooves without any drums. In most respects many of these are virtually ready made tracks, you can literally loop many of them in Mixman or otherwise and away you go, add some vocals or some odd fill effect and your away. Whilst of course this does make it incredibly easy to make up a decent sounding track, it does make it difficult to make anything that doesn't sound exactly like the loop as presented on the CD.

The loops are pretty good, generally very light sounding, even those ones marked as heavy. Sort of disco, funk, soul collection, certainly many foot tappers in here. With these as a backing of a track you'd seriously struggle not to make a good track, however what you can do with the loops to make something more original sounding, or to produce more variation is another question. Most of the loops are pretty short, though many have a couple of variations, so can get repetitive quite quickly.

Have to say there are some crackers in here, Saddle 1 being my favourite, just wished that the elements had been separated more....

Piano's - both samples are simple riffs, not of too much use, but add a little variation.

Sax - a single sax riff, fine, but as with some of the other sections could have done with some more viations.

Vocals - 77 samples - vocals are always a tough one for sample CD's, many sample offerings tend to fall into cliché's, and this is no exception. I bet most readers can guess at many of the vocal lines without too much effort. "Get funky, ahhh, do doop, good got, ain't it funky, uhh, yeah, feel the funk, y'all got it". Its difficult to drop in anything too esoteric in a small collection, and with over 70 offerings at least you get a reasonable choice, but you'd struggle to use these for anything other than fill ins.

The samples fall into 3 sections, female vocals (14), George himself (60) and male counting (3). The female samples are harmonies, and are quite good, though terribly middle of the road sounding. The George Clinton samples have somewhat more attitude and character, though the definition of "dry" needs a little explanation, perhaps "less effects" would be a better description. Many of the samples within this area literally drip with reverb/echo/delay. The CD rounds out with three male "1234" samples.

 

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