Weird? You ain't heard nothing yet! Paul Farrer Distorted Reality Unhinged is the strangest, most sinister and downright bizarre collection of loops and textures you'll ever have heard, sounding like a dangerously insane man left alone to play with a ton of hot studio gear, a couple of big buckets of illegal substances and half a dozen top‑flight Lexicons. Taking the form of multiple 30‑second atmospheric soundscapes, both of these CDs will take you on a rare and sometimes terrifying trip around the darker corners of your sampler. This is a truly wondrous home‑grown product that simply defies explanation and has only been rivalled so far by its astonishing follow‑up, Ghost in the Machine. Wilf Smarties Cuckooland Volume 1: Unhinged This is one for the art museum - if you have an original copy keep it safe. Slurpy beats, witty soundbites, funky as hell. laid their hearts (and sample cupboard) bare. Often with remix CDs you get the feeling that the best has been kept back, but More & Co. Only Pascal Gabriel, from the same AMG stable, came close, though I got the impression that his influences and sources were distributed over a much shorter time‑span. With old‑school jazz and soul drum‑loops, voice hits, classic stabs and breaks, here was an early and vital insight into the raw material of the dance producer. Instead of presenting boring multi‑sample sets, this release featured sounds carefully culled from a massive and well‑researched record collection, lovingly assembled over a period of years. Compared with the competition - Masterbits Old Gold Synth tone collections and the like - it was dynamite. Maybe this doesn't stand out from the crowd so much any more, but when it was released five years ago it blew my tiny mind. If you can still find one for sale anywhere, snap it up immediately - you won't regret it! Paul Farrer Coldcut's Kleptomania An extremely versatile release suitable for techno, soundtrack, relaxation or just plain weird music that is a glowing testament to Ian's love of all things analogue and his attention to detail in effects processing.
Despite quite a few similar products having been released since, Ambient continues to hold its own, and even after all this time the pads and textures still sound as fresh and exciting as they did when it first came out. Ian Boddy is one of sampling's true innovators and this release (one of Time & Space's earliest) set the standard for others to follow. PAUL WHITE, PAUL FARRER & WILF SMARTIES plunder the Sample Shop archives for sampling treasure. We asked our regular sample CD reviewers to tell us which CD gems they'd like to be stranded with on a desert island (with mains power and a sampler, naturally).
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