We have gone back to issues 29, 30 and 31, drawing on the best of their samples and compiling them into a single, comprehensive collection of over 1,100 loops.
Alongside a selection of ambient textures, effects and analogue synths, you'll find a fistful of drum loops, guitar chops and keyboard lines, all edited ready to splice into your tunes.
Samples by:
C Y C L I C K S A M P L E S
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INDUSTRIAL BACKING KITS
We have created five separate backing kits for use with the industrial noise samples also on this disk. The kits have the following keys and tempos:
| Kit | Tempo | Keys |
| Kit01 | 120 bpm | G &C |
| Kit02 | 140 bpm | B & F# |
| Kit03 | 150 bpm | D &A |
| Kit04 | 174 bpm | G & D |
| Kit05 | 90 bpm | F & C |
Welcome to the Industrial Revolution, a huge collection of 800 24-bit sounds produced by RJAD and The Groove Criminals. It comprises six folders of loops at various tempi, as well as a massive choice of effects, guitar bits, single hits and synths, and a set of full-on electronic loops that crunch, grind and scream. Drawing on a roomful of vintage digital and analogue synths, guitars, drums, percussion and power tools, this is a one-stop shop for intense, stressed-out bludgeoners.
All of the electronic sounds were deliberately distressed, primarily by overdriving the gain circuit on the mixing desk and the inserted valve compressor, but also with liberal use of dynamics and distortion processing.
The pickup selectors on the guitars and bass were used to create some clunking effects and interference (when placed on top of the Marshall amp head). The Strat yielded some great buzzing sounds when placed in the cavity under the transformer too.
As ever, all the samples are completely royalty-free, so do with them as you will . . .
You can only imagine our elation when the theme chosen for this issue turned out to be "Industrial Music". Here at The Electronic Garden, we are great fans of industrial and experimental music. My own band is signed to an independent label called Beta-lactam Ring Records, home to such genre favourites as The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound and The Abrasion Ensemble. As a matter of fact, I myself built a pair of Theremins for The Legendary Pink Dots themselves! Yep, we are great fans of such music, going all the way back to the initial volleys by pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Cabaret Voltaire. To our minds, these groups represented a resurgence of creativity in electronic music that had not occurred since the late sixties.
As you can guess, we had great fun putting together these sounds. We have included a huge selection of electronic loops that crunch, grind, scream and squall. We made use of our favourite studio tools, most especially our beloved Kyma system. For those of you who do not know, this somewhat exclusive sound design system was used to generate the sound effects in Hollywood blockbusters such as the Matrix (from which we have shamelessly approximated a particular effect to treat some of the dialogue samples herein). In addition to the loops, we have included hundreds of multisampled digital and analogue sounds with which you can jam over said loops. If you use one of the four supported samplers, you will find that they are even all mapped out for you and saved as presets.
As always, if you intend to make use of the NNXT, Kontakt and HALion patches, you will need to copy the entire folder onto your C drive (you can leave out the DS-404 patches in this case). Otherwise, your sampler will not know where to look for the files.
In any event, the chaos of industrial mayhem awaits you, so get to it! We can't wait to hear what you do with our sounds!
Scot Solida
The Electronic Garden