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Welcome to the final post in the ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’ series. This time there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 8 drumloops in the pack. All the sounds come from an old session with a vintage sp unit, but they have been somewhat processed, and while they may be now sound a little bit crispier (especially in the high end) they still retain the crunch and the grime imparted by the hardware and the infamous sample transpose technique.

Finally out, 9 tracks, free download, get it here!

A bit of old school, a lot of visionary abstract instrumental hiphop, some dubstep references, a bunch of sweet melodic taste mixed with dusty sounds: this is the receipt of a great downbeat album like “Fireworks” and this is how Grillo kicks off his debut match with the Homework Records team!

Matteo shows how the new Italian abstract hiphop movement is active and fresh, winking to old school stuff and watching to contemporary instrumental tendencies at the same time.

“Fireworks” puts together influences by Prefuse 73′s melodic taste, powerful triumphal beat lines and a lot of attractive spoken quotes perfectly cut into the main rhythmic pattern.

Welcome to the third episode of ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’. In The pack there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 4 drumloops.

Welcome to the second episode of ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’. This time is a little different, with a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 4 drumloops.

Ah, the elusive Emu SP1200 sound. Today, while most of the old school hardware samplers and drum machines gather dust everywhere, these big clunky emu boxes are still going strong in the second hand market. The reason? That lo-fi crunchiness has proven unattainable in software form. A while ago I got interested in Acquit music’s freeware emulation of the classic beatbox, and made up a cool vintage breakbeat / hip hop drumkit for the final release. Mind you, the emulation wasn’t very accurate, but still added loads of grit and murk to the samples you loaded into it.

Sadly, Acquit’s web site seems to have vanished, so i thought about uploading an expanded version of my original drum kit here, as a free download. Actually it’s two different versions, a squeaky clean one (well, as clean as you can get when sampling from old records actually) and a dirty, grungy, growling straight sp1200 one.

Sp1200 drumkit 1(clean)
Sp1200 drumkit 1(dirty)

The samples are provided in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format. Enjoy.

That’d be all for today, but stay tuned because i’m going to post other drum samples i got straight from the hot converters of a very bad SP1200 in the next few weeks.
In the mean time, if you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, highly appreciated chief.