MINI REVIEW: BIG FISH AUDIO ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE
Sep 1, 2004 12:00 PM, Jason Scott Alexander
21ST-CENTURY SCHIZOID LOOPS AND EFFECTS
Having to pry myself away from my DAW and this collection to write this
review, I can attest, Big Fish Audio has one severely devastating
sounding library on its hands with Electro Magnetic Pulse. With
top-notch sound design and wide, punchy production by Perry Geyer and
Pirahna, EMP packs some of the freshest, hardest, most
menacing-sounding beats and effects that I’ve heard onto a
three-disc audio, WAV and REX set. Geared toward hard electro, big
beat, nu-skool and mad house, the material is almost uniformly
four-on-the-floor, rarely with any heavy swings or funk patterns to
take away from your flow. The breaks are arranged into 79 thematic
families of four-bar loops that evolve into three or four complementing
four-bar variations, often with breakdowns and builds. Loops are
skippy, glitchy, stuttery, flanged, phased, distorted, vocoded,
swirled, erratically auto-panned, tweazy, nasal, mechanical, sci-fi,
industrial, tiny, enormous—you get the picture. Tempos range from
68 to 146 bpm, with the vast majority sitting around the 110 to 130 bpm
comfort zone. I could hear so many familiar, tasty elements of acts
that I love, it made me feel I was raiding the sound lockers of Beastie
Boys, Meat Beat Manifesto, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Crystal Method,
Nine Inch Nails and the like.
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