Sample Magic - sample dvd's and downloads for house, dance, electro and trance music

"Following the commercial dance appeal of Funky House Grooves, relative newcomer Sample Magic focuses its attention on all things clunkier and funkier in this outstanding new three-CD hardcore breaks library. Rather than building around thematically limiting construction kits, the 1000-plus loops, licks and one-shots are arranged as 31 tracks on audio CD1 for auditioning and hardware sampling, 24-bit Wav files on CD2 and 16-bit REX files on CD3. Special format files also contain HALion, EXS24 and Reason patches. Loops are 125, 130, 135, or 140 bpm, and keygrouping of melodic material is thankfully kept to a minimum.

The 168 ball-crushing breaks span decades of influences, from grit-infused acoustic funk with 808 boom augmentation to heavily distorted and effected industrial and post-modern filth. Devastating kicks and gut-punching sub-basses tie the knot with all sorts of quirky, squeaky vintage electro-percussion trickery for highly inspiring, era-transcending beats.

The same goes for the top-end percussion-loops folder. This outrageous fun includes rapid-fore percussion warfare, tightly looped vocoded drum phrases, factory inspired electro-mechanical beatbox escapades and more. Together with the 95 bass and 124 synth loops, you'll really start pushing your speaker cones. From panoramic, pitch-warped resonant saw lines to nail-biting '80s FM and brainfreezing swelched arpeggios, fat sound is delivered by the tubful.

The "mashed vocals" is perhaps the coolest supplementary folder I've encounterred in any sample library. Randomly chopped and flipped, these male and female spoken words, vocalbreaks/scats and sung phrases are edited unrecognizably - a masterclass in digital cut-up, glitch and stutter theory. Hundreds of beat-matched scrathed loops, FX stabs, builds and textures, as well as individual drum hits, round out the collection. Breakbusters is a must-have that will shake your bones and melt your b-boy soul."

Jason Scott Alexander, REMIX magazine

"Sample Magic's Breakbusters is an intense collection of breakbeat samples. Filthy, funky, grimy and chunky, it's certainly not for those who want to produce granny-friendly chart fodder.

The beats dominate (over 150 well-produced loops are included) but basses, synths, mashed vocals, scratches and FX are covered too. Compiled with care, this is a thoroughly contemporary collection that also gives nods to the past."