Each week Ben Sterling will be sharing our top 5 sample packs to help set up your production to its fullest. This will include genres such as House, Tech, Techno, Drum & Bass +all the other vast amounts of sub genres thats been invented..

1.Retro Funk & Disco

Organic Loops present Retro Funk and Disco – a brand new sample collection inspired by the 1970’s flare flapping, Disco, Funk and Rare Groove era. Expect to find infectious Beats, booty shaking Bass, syncopated Horns, classic Strings, Funky Guitars and a whole bunch more. All content is 100% Royalty free, and drenched in Soul.

28GB of sounds, featuring Loops, One Shots, Sampler Patches and Rex2 files to inject some sophistication and shine into your next production. Featuring a wealth of essential disco elements; you’ll find Loops packed with expertly-played Electric Guitars, Strings, Synths, Horns, Flutes, Keys and funky Bass! Each sound lovingly processed with a myriad of outboard effects including; Talk Boxes, Wah Pedals, Flangers, Phasers, Delays and more, for immediate Disco sparkle at 24 bit resolution!

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2. System 6 Samples Pres. Tuff Gruv Tech House Vol. 2

The second installment in our popular Tuff Gruv series, ‘Tech House Vol 2’ contains over 500MB of cutting edge House and Tech samples. You’ll find everything you need from ready to roll jacked up Drum Loops to inspirational Background and Musical Ideas, dirty driven One Shots and Drum Kits programmed into Sampler Patches for the leading samplers and supplied with Midi files to get your own grooves started.

The core of the product is 20 full Tech House beats and as always, stripped back to offer all the various layers that make up these tight grooves allowing the user to mix and match layers to make your own custom Drum Loops.

We’ve also included 30 Backgrounds and Musical Ideas, designed to get the creative juices flowing and add melodic undertones to your Tech House productions.

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3. Dark Room Techno by Industrial Strength

Dark Room Techno is a blend of twisted Industrial Strength Techno Loop Kits and essential elements to inspire your next production.

This clean cut Techno pack offers you a wide range of our Loop Kits which are all set up for instant creativity. You can mix and match the kits to create new grooves, add your music or just use the kits to recreate your own loops your way. Dark Room Techno Includes a phat selection of additional Kick Drum Loop, Fx Loops and extra Percussive Fx to add new flavor to the grooves already included in the pack.

Each File is Keyed up and tempo marked for ease of use  This incredible 24 Bit audio collection is 100% License Free and can be use din any Daw.
If your looking for inspiring Dark Techno with some Industrial Strength attitude this pack delivers the goods.
Flash Light Not included.

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4. Robbie Rivera – Tribal House

Loopmasters present Robbie Rivera Tribal House – a chunky, funky mix of Tribal sounds from an established heavyweight! All content is 100% Royalty Free and features Loops, One Hits and Sampler Patches primed for a peak time Tribal transcendence!

Packed with 389MB of chunky Full Drums, topping Percussion Loops, sleek Synths and bumpin Bass Loops – Robbie Rivera delivers all the equipment you need for a total Tribal experience! Over 100 One Hits are included to track and sequence in your own style – with Drums, Synths, Basses and FX. All to that 97 MIDI Files, 200+ Rex2 Loops and over 60 Sampler Patches – and you have enough sonic supplies to keep you sustained for months!

At a solid 124 BPM, Robbie Rivera Tribal House is ideal for Tribal House, as well as Tech House, Progressive House, EDM, Techno and other club-inspired genres. As always, all musical content is key-labelled for instant integration in your tracks.

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5. Tech Kicks by HY2ROGEN

For years, HY2ROGEN has created essential drum hits for various genres but always had a keen interest in tech oriented soundscapes.

With the kick being the base ingredient for all things to come, we offer you a sufficient batch of “put me to work” bassdrums, custom built for tech house, techno, minimal, house, deep house and beyond underground influenced genres.

In this mixture of unique sounds you will find multiple variations of beefed-up kicks treated with analog processing, sub-soaking infusions and perfect stacking techniques.From snappy attacks to techno riding kicks, the 400 kick drums come in all shapes and sizes along software sampler patches as always for easy usage and integration within your workflow.

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Have you always dreamed of owning a Roland TR-808, 303 or 909? We know we have here at DT and to our mind any studio we built wouldn’t be quite complete without several pieces of Roland’s genre defining pieces of kit.

Whilst we often wax lyrical about the creative exploits of legends from Detroit and Chicago and the movements that accompanied these artists about their contributions to the evolution of electronica as we know it the equipment makers seldom garner the recognition they deserve outside of the industry.

Don’t get us wrong, we’re as happy to discuss the sociological aspects of acid house as much as the next electronic music scholar but we were delighted to see such important technological advances and those behind them get some mainstream recognition.  For without these integral pieces of kit, we probably wouldn’t have seen such genres as 80’s Hip Hop, Techno and House come to the forefront in quite such a way, with Acid House in particular coming to be commonly characterized by the trademark squelch of the TB-303.

So it was huge news for us in the office when Roland Corporation finally announced that they would be reviving their most beloved product in producing a fresh production line of the iconic Roland Tr-808 Rhythm Composer but are they now set to also reissue the equally iconic 909? The rumor mill into overdrive that they are following the company sharing a video that hints that the seminal techno rhythm box may be next in line for a reboot. Whilst the new video does not show any sort of new drum machine or give any details as to what Roland has planned it does reveal a few interesting details on the back story of one of techno’s most integral pieces of kit. It remains hazy whether or not a new 909 is in Roland’s future plans or if their new 808 will instead attempt to incorporate sounds from both machines but we can live in hope that we’ll see two distinct products hit the shelves in the near future.

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