MINIREVIEW: BEST SERVICE FUTURE TRANCE ANTHEMS
Sep 15, 2004 12:00 PM, Jason Scott Alexander
During the past 14 years, Gez Dewar and Nick Hale have produced and remixed for the likes of Paul van Dyk, Carl Cox, Robbie Williams, BT and Chicane, to name but a few. Their specialty: cutting-edge trance and progressive. This four-disc package is a purposely redundant two-disc, multiformat set; the first two discs are audio-CD versions of what resides on the latter two, which comprise Acidized WAV files of drum and loop elements arranged in categories and construction kits. There’s also a bonus folder containing Logic EXS24 sampler instruments (leads, pads, basses and so forth) of sounds used to create the music loops, which were drawn from synths such as the Access Virus, the Roland JV-1080 and the Clavia Nord Lead. All loops are sample-accurate to 140 bpm across the board.
In the music loops folder are 38 arpeggios, 97 bass loops, 39 dub loops, 79 supporting riffs and 30 trance riffs. As far as construction kits are concerned, there are 25 drum-loop kits, each containing four to 15 element tracks (typically one bar in length), and 20 trance construction kits—essentially eight-bar thematic trance anthems broken down by instrument and drum elements. FTA is a wide-variety goldmine of deliciously heady, booty-shaking, mind-altering, dancefloor-packing substances that really should come with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for you to put royalty checks in, direct to the boys. It’s that damn good.
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