HouseObsessed: March 2008

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

ACID & APPLE LOOPS Edition of Funked Up Now Available

For the lovers of the funkier side of life!

After much work and dedication, the team at Inspiration Sounds have finally released the ACID and APPLE LOOPS Editions of Funked Up. These new versions include 770MB of the finest Drumloops, Percussion loops, Guitars and Vocal loops ever assembled for Funky House, Soulful House and Pure Funk.

Funked Up ACID & APPLE LOOPS Edition are now available for instant download.

They've spent over a year putting Funked Up together, and these two new versions include the key and one-shot/loop tag in each file. This means that when you preview the loops it will automatically pitch-shift them into the key you are working in so you can work out what fits a lot easier. No more previewing loops that are in the wrong key, it just makes life a lot easier!

The ACID edition is for ACID Pro and the Apple Loops Edition is for Garageband, Logic 7/8, Soundtrack and Final Cut Pro. They employed the best musicians. They recorded everything in there Pro Tools HD TDM studio using the world's finest audio production equipment. And finally, there producer/editor is credited on works from many Number 1 selling artists around the world.
Funked Up ACID and Funked Up APPLE Edition include all of the individual titles from there Funked Up series. You get the horns, percussion, drumloops, vocals, guitars and bass guitars Plus an additional 35MB of Funky House Drumloops.

FUNKED UP Specifications:· 770MB Samples/Loops · Over 1,800 files · Funky House Drums · Bass Guitars · Percussion · Vocals · Guitars · Horns · WAV Format · Loops sync to BPM · PC/Mac Compatible · File names indicate key
Price £49.95

Funked Up ACID & APPLE LOOPS Edition are now available for instant download.

They've spent over a year putting Funked Up together, and these two new versions include the key and one-shot/loop tag in each file. This means that when you preview the loops it will automatically pitch-shift them into the key you are working in so you can work out what fits a lot easier. No more previewing loops that are in the wrong key, it just makes life a lot easier!

The ACID edition is for ACID Pro and the Apple Loops Edition is for Garageband, Logic 7/8, Soundtrack and Final Cut Pro. They employed the best musicians. They recorded everything in there Pro Tools HD TDM studio using the world's finest audio production equipment. And finally, there producer/editor is credited on works from many Number 1 selling artists around the world.
Funked Up ACID and Funked Up APPLE Edition include all of the individual titles from there Funked Up series. You get the horns, percussion, drumloops, vocals, guitars and bass guitars Plus an additional 35MB of Funky House Drumloops.

FUNKED UP Specifications:· 770MB Samples/Loops · Over 1,800 files · Funky House Drums · Bass Guitars · Percussion · Vocals · Guitars · Horns · WAV Format · Loops sync to BPM · PC/Mac Compatible · File names indicate key
Price £49.95

Click here to preview the Acid Loops Edition
Click here to preview the Apple Loops Edition

Full Tilt March Update

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Beatport Music Awards!

Beginning March 18th, Beatport users will have the opportunity to vote for the best electronic music artist of 2007 in the first ever Beatport Music Awards.

Here are the catagories:

Breakbeat Artist
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House Artist
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Chill Out Artist
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Minimal Artist
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Deep House Artist
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Progressive House Artist
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Drum & Bass Artist
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Psy-Trance Artist
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Dubstep Artist
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Tech House Artist
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Electro House Artist
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Techno Artist
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Electronica Artist
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Trance Artist
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Hard Dance Artist
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Remix of 2007
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Hardcore Artist
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Single of 2007

Plus: Vote for the most influential, forward-thinking and relevant person in electronic music in 2007.

Click here to few the nominees and vote!!

I think these awards are a excellent idea and hope everyone takes five minutes out of there day and votes!

Pryda - Pjanoo (Reuben Keeney's Private Edit)

Pjanoo is set to be one of the biggest tracks of summer 2008 and this is a edit from young irish dj/producer and owner of Localized Records, Reuben Keeney.
His edit doesnt overpower this listener instead he has added some extra kick and well... givin it the Reuben treatment!
Reuben will be djing along with myself and 3 other Irish djs at the opening parties in Ibiza this June! We are heading out with Release Ireland!

Pryda - Pjanoo (Reuben Keeney's Private Edit)

Electro Grime - Has arrived!!!‏

[Download Pack - 570 MB] - ZIP FILE

Inspiration Sounds "Electro Grime" features some of the dirtiest Electro House Loops and Samples ever committed to a Sample Pack. If you produce Dirty Electro House, or Minimal House, then Electro Grime is guaranteed to blow you away!

Electro Grime is the latest Sample Pack from Inspiration Sounds. If you are looking for totally fresh and current electro synths, ball-crunching electro basslines, downright dirty electro drums and "out of this world" synthesizer fx, then look no further. Electro Grime was created exclusively using some of the finest analogue synthesizers and analogue drum machines ever created. All loops are at 128BPM and our producers have worked extremely hard to provide you the most refreshing and inspirational content possible.

Please note, all of the demo content is included in Electro Grime. Some "full mix" musical loops are included in the Electro Grime Sample Pack to allow new producers to create tracks extremely easily. However, Electro Grime is ideal for both new producers and seasoned professionals alike. Electro Grime is available for direct download to your computer today, and it is in multi-format.

Electro Grime Contents:

Loops
Drum Loops (Tops)
Drum Loops (Bottoms)
Bass Loops
Synth & FX Loops
Musical Loops
Electro Grime Contents: Hits (One-Shots)
Synth & FX Samples
Bass Samples
Drum & Percussion Samples
Kick Drum Samples
Snare Samples

Electro Grime: Formats
ACIDized Wav (key, number of beats and loop/one-shot attributes are included)
Apple Loops (key, number of beats, genre, tempo and loop/one-shot attributes are included)
REX2 (Sensitivity slider has been adjusted carefully on each loop to pick out all relevant notes/beats)
WAV (ideal for all applications and hardware synth samplers)

Electro Grime: Production Quality
All of the content was mastered in the Inspiration Sounds' Pro Tools HD TDM studio using the world's leading audio production gear. All data has been passed through our 7-stage quality control system to ensure that all content is fully tested and works perfectly in all applications.
Specifications
570MB Data
ACIDized Wave Files
Apple Loops
REX2 files
All loops sync to BPM
PC/Mac Compatible

Electro Grime: Compatible with all versions of this software:
ACID
Ableton Live
Apple Final Cut
Apple Garageband
Apple Logic 7/8
Apple Soundtrack
Cakewalk Sonar
Cubase SX
Cubase 4
Cubasis
Emagic Logic
EXS24
FL Studio
Fruityloops
Garageband
Gigasampler
Gigastudio
Halion
Kontakt (all versions)
Motu Mach Five
Nuendo
REASON
Stylus RMX

To preview and or buy this pack click here!

This really does look like a interesting pack, im thinking of buying it myself! If anybody has it please give us some feedback on it, cheers.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCER/REMIXER JUNKIE XL JOINS ARTWERK TO RELEASE HIS FIFTH PROPER STUDIO ALBUM, "BOOMING BACK AT YOU" MARCH 11, 2008.‏

Electronic music producer, remixer and one-man band JUNKIE XL (a.k.a. TomHolkenborg), is partnering up with Artwerk, Electronic Arts’ label inconjunction with Nettwerk Music, to release his fifth proper studio album,“Booming Back At You” on March 11, 2008. The album delivers Junkie XL’snewest, deliciously invigorating, electronica tracks with guest vocalappearances by Divine Heresy’s Tommy Vext, Rocket front-woman LaurenRocket, and Electrocute vocalist Nicole Morier. Junkie XL creations havebeen revealed on dance floors, in commercials, movies and video games. His interpretation of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation” wasused on a 2002 Nike World Cup Commercial. He has contributed music tovideo games such as “The Sims 2: Nightlife,” Xbox games “Forza Motorsport”and “Quantum Redshift,” and the Wii’s snowboarding game “SSX Blur”. Thealbum’s first single, “More” will be featured in the new EA “Need ForSpeed Pro Street” game set to release this winter. His live performancecan also be heard at the upcoming popular music festivals South BySouthwest (SXSW), March 14 in Austin, TX and Coachella, April 24 in Indio,CA.

Click on any one of the links below to experience Junkie XL:

http://www.nettwerk.com/player/junkiexl/

www.junkiexl.com

www.myspace.com/junkiexl