Sample Magic – Reworked Soul Selections $7.99/mo

We’re taking sampling back to its foundations, when beatmakers would mine dusty wax for dope grooves and breaks. The SM crew’s fierce stock of crackly soul riffs, jazzy bass notes, and funky drums are exactly the kind of solid gold bits and hits you’d have loved to have found, digging, back in the day.

The production process at the heart of this pack captures that ‘ripped right from the record’ tone and vibe of old school sampling. Some percussion loops feel like they’ve been panned out of a full track and EQ’d to give you that phat authentic vinyl-sampled sound.

A great library, then, for locked down boom bappers who can’t quite make it out the door to the local record store. Roy Spencer splice.com

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