Review of Sample Magic Organic House: Autumn is here and what better way is there than to warm yourself with some uplifting haus? Sample Magic shows us the way.

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Sample Magic Organic House
House. No matter what kind of music I listen to, I always come back to house. It's like coming home. Tech House. Minimal House. Uplifting House. Old-old-school hiphop (which I consider to be house in its most original form). Whatever. House is Home.

Without dragging sexual preferences into this blog, I'd like to say there are only three types of clubs I honor with my royal presence: 1) dark, atonal techno clubs 2) where ever Plump DJs are performing and 3) gay clubs. No matter how straight or bent you are, there are few places that play better, more danceable music than gay clubs. And in gay clubs, they play House. Real House. Not the minimal technoish-kind nor the silk-like tones of smokey Rhodes of laid-back house. No, Real House is upbeat in a feel-good manner. The Only One (tm) you actually want to start clapping your hands to the beat without feeling like a moron.

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Review of Audiospillage Drumspillage: Tired of overprocessed sampled drum kits where nothing is left for your imagination? Drumspillage is a drum synthesizer that goes back to the roots of drum boxes.

Drumspillage
Drumspillage
Anyone who's following this blog, probably knows about my quest for finding the perfect drum machine. I am aware of that it's just a futile dream - but as with so much in life, the search is often a desirable goal by itself. So with that in mind, my spirit got filled with nice white noise when I got contacted by Stephen from Audiospillage asking me if I would be interested to take the latest version of Drumspillage for a test drive.

Audiospillage is a young company. Their first release, Minispillage, came out last year and is a free drum synthesis plugin and was later followed up by The Real Deal Drumspillage, which quote Audiospillage "with an emphasis on creative electronic percussion synthesis."

Is this a contender for the mighty Microtonic we see on the horizon? Read on.

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Review of Sidsonic Tubes! Tubes is a sample library specially designed for sounds passing of old dusty vacuum tubes. As with all products Sidsonic - Tubes is not for the person who enjoys tubification in small, well constrained, amounts. Ass-Blasters set to burn!

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Sidsonic Tubes!
Tubes, tubes, tubes. They are all the rage and fashion and have been popping up in all kinds of instruments, mixers and pedals, but also in quite unexpected gear, such as the 2002 Aopen PC mainboard with a built-in russian-made tube to ensure your pleasure while listening to Gorillaz.

It's all - of course - about distortion.

As with recording to magnetic tape, distorting a tube doesn't clip in the nasty way it does with a/d converters and transistors. The headroom brings something extra. You've all heard about the wonders and magic about TUBE SOUND that brings WARMTH to your mixes. If I sound less than convinced - let me explain my cynicism here. When I read about some hot-shot dance producer talk themselves wet over the WARM sound of their latest gear, I get so tired I cannot finish reading. You wanna hear the truth? You damn morons hear what you want to hear. Period.

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