Friday, March 26, 2010

Loopmasters Proudly Present

COMPUTER KORE

The Industrial Strength sound design team is back with its most insane sample pack of the year!
Computer Core consists of mad sound FX, distorted bass drums, noise sounds and dark atmospheres to add that extra edge to your production.

The pack contains perfectly cut Rex 2, Acid wav and Apple Loops for ease of use in any DAW. The pack is also available as a Reason Refill.

This Core pack is armed with 53 insane noises, 11 atmospheres and 95 pounding loops from 145 bpm to 160 bpm. Loads of one shots are also included so you can program your own mad grooves. The drum hits can be used on their own or can be layered with your sounds and can be used in any Hard Electronic production.

Laced with mechanical sounds, machine like patterns and distorted drum loops the pack can be used in many applications such as video games, music and sound FX.

The pack is unique in the fact that is made completely with plug-ins, such as digital distortion, tube distortion, freeware and strange Vst plug-ins not normally used on a daily bases by most producers. This will give that extra edge to your work especially for Mac and Pro Tools users who cannot usually access these plug-ins.

Produced by Fiend, a long time DJ, producer & sound designer, Computer Kore is loaded with fierce overtones, distorted drums and mind bending FX which are great for Industrial, Hardcore, Nu Metal, Tekno, DnB, Breakcore, Gothic and Power Noise. Fiend brings his vast knowledge of producing music and sound designing all in jam packed collection.

More info: http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/478/Computer_Kore

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Pandemic – The Album BK & Anne Savage


Label: Riot!
Recordings
Buy Now On:

HMV: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/simpleSearch.do?simpleSearchString=Bk%3A+Anne+Savage

Track it Down:
http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/hard_dance/track/2029760.html

The world’s No.1 hard dance producer BK has joined forces with dance music’s force de jour Anne Savage to create the new studio masterpiece in the form of Pandemic, a 12 track long-player guaranteed to make your speakers bounce.


Available to buy in both physical and download formats, this carefully crafted album shows the diversity of Anne & Ben’s sounds, reflecting both their independent and collective histories in the scene over the past decade. But this is no ordinary hard dance album- each track has it’s own identity taking influence from every genre from pop to rock.


Anne draws on her rock band past and features vocals on Space Invader and Rock The Underground whilst Ben hails back to his rock studio days, stepping up to the mic for On The Edge, Pressure Down and Last Dance. Anne and Ben have also lovingly created some very clever cover versions, paying homage to three club classics that have all held personal meanings to Ben and Anne over the years. Sweet Sensation (by Shades of Rhythm) was one of the first tracks to inspire Anne to start DJing, Rich In Paradise (by FPI Project) a huge rave favourite of the pair and La Luna (By Patrick Prins) a track that Anne always used to play at the Ark raves in Leeds in the mid nineties. “It marked a turning point in my sound to a grittier dirty club vibe rather than anthemic big room rave tunes’.


Each track has been tried and tested on the world’s best dancefloors, but was equally created to listen to in it’s entirety- maybe on Friday night whilst getting ready to go out!


Kicking things off is the high energy rave-breaks title track Pandemic setting the tempo for this high-octane collection before moving onto crunchy tech trance inspired territory such as Testify and Pressure Down, Ben’s solo track- more European crossover appeal than the channel tunnel!

Euphoric vibes then sweep in to break up the tech dance with a trip back in time to cover the classic piano anthem Sweet Sensation by Shades of Rhythm, bringing this classic up to date with crisp modern production techniques, clever fills and an epic vocal! Space Invader closely follows with a very unique arrangement and the quirky vocals by Anne herself!


Next up the duo head down a main room crossover route with modern classic The Last Dance, featuring some heavy triplet action on the main drop and moving vocals before moving into hard house territory with Rich in paradise that fuses the oldskool with nu-skool sounds, crisp pianos and dirty stab action.


Anne & Ben then take things a little deeper with La Luna bringing back the techno vibes for another massive cover, and Anne’s solo track Club America going back to her tech days showing how she was one of the pioneers of this sound by bringing it right up to date with Latin chanting mixed in with a modern groove.


For the grand finale, Ben takes a step up to the mic to create one of the first anthems to come out of 2010, On The Edge. This has all of the right qualities to go all the way with its catchy vocal and memorable riff.

Pandemic has already had massive support from the scene; with BBC Radio 1’s Kutski revealing "Sweet Sensationhas instantly become one of the biggest tracks in my sets. From the first time I dropped it on my Radio 1 show, the reaction on the TXT was phenomenal confirming my instincts! Other praise for the album comes from the likes of big guns Lisa Lashes, Andy Whitby, Alex Kidd Fausto and Bootek who said “On the Edge is my favourite track from the album, really catchy vocal hook that’s been stuck in my head ever since hearing it and an almighty powerfull drop that will set dancefloor alight!


Anne & Ben have performed at every major festival and event globally including Dance Valley, Q-Dance, Global Gathering and Creamfields and are responsible for some of the biggest productions in the scene. If there are two pioneers to push the scene forward, it’s certainly these two.


Trend setting not trend following, Pandemic the album is due to set the standard for harder edge dance music for the next 10 years to predict and dictate the future of UK hard dance. Watch out for the Pandemic tour where Anne and Ben will be tearing it up in a club near you! Details can be found here:

http://www.bkworld.net/
http://www.annesavage.net/
http://www.riotinlondon.com/

Buy Now On:
HMV: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/simpleSearch.do?simpleSearchString=Bk%3A+Anne+Savage

Track it Down:
http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/hard_dance/track/2029760.html

PANDEMIC – TRACKLISTING

1. Pandemic

2. Testify

3. Pressure Down

4. Sweet Sensation

5. Rock The Underground

6. Space Invader

7. Last dance

8. Rich In Paradise

9. La Luna

10. Club America

11. Justice
12. On The Edge

Friday, March 19, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

John Kutski Walker

28 year old John Kutski Walker, Born in Chester (England), Hardstyle DJ, won 3 awards at the Hard Dance Awards that took place not too long ago. He won awards for 'Best UK DJ', 'Best Compilation CD (Extreme Euphoria)' and 'OUTSTANDING Contribution'. So a big congratulations to him. Woohoo!!!
Now for the exciting part: Kutski will be rocking Cape Town at the end of this month, and he'll be bringing along one of his awards (Best Compilation CD - Extreme Euphoria).

So if you wanna see UK's number 1 DJ in Cape Town, be sure to get to Club RAS on Friday the 26th of March 2010!