Soundscan 44 African Traditions

Truthful Asian ambience is really difficult to produce, mostly due to the unavailability of credible loops. This Soundscan addresses the need for traditional music from Asia: vocal, percussion and highly exotic instrumental loops. This disc is a treasure chest for authentic sounding loops and phrases. Sound editors and music to picture composers will find an excellent source of mystery and disorientation, with all the necessary tempo indications to make this a really easy to use library.

These grooves have a unique laid-back quality that sets them apart. The Dark Side of Trip Hop is not to be mistaken with anything else: on the production side, each of the kits is instantly identifiable by it’s fat sound. Inject a loop and you current mix will feel a lot heavier. Check it out and discover the true grooves of this new and exciting musical style. This Soundscan oozes with attitude!

Artist: Dean Allen Foyd
Album: The SoundsCan Be So Cruel
Year: 2012
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: VBR 192-320 kbps
Format: MP3
Tracks: 9
Size: 120 mb

These grooves have a unique laid-back quality that sets them apart. The Dark Side of Trip Hop is not to be mistaken with anything else: on the production side, each of the kits is instantly identifiable by it’s fat sound. Inject a loop and you current mix will feel a lot heavier. Check it out and discover the true grooves of this new and exciting musical style. This Soundscan oozes with attitude!

This unique musical style is expertly redefined by the loops and multisamples created specifically by Zend Avesta, jungle wizard on the cutting edge of the European scene. Hundreds of jungle loops & breakbeats ranging between 160 & 173 BPM, most including already trimmed samples of snare, hi-hat & bass drum, so that you can create your own breaks and variations.

Straight from the weirdest building site: large impacts, metal hits and a wealth of superbly sound-designed percussive samples. All those ingredients are mixed with electronic percussions in a tasteful way. Dark Ambience, spacey "electric" patterns, hyperdensified tracks, electro industrial beatss there is a wide range to select from, and minute variation from a bar to another, making each track rich.

The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasize the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history. Unprecedented in scope, sophistication and accessibility, the volume draws together current scholarship in the field. It also looks ahead to suggest new approaches, new areas of study, and as yet undervalued writers and works. The Cambridge History of African American Literature is a major achievement both as a work of reference and as a compelling narrative and will remain essential reading for scholars and students in years to come. ...

Edited by an author of many books on African writers and literature, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of African literature produced in all of the major languages. Both sub-Saharan and North African literatures are represented, although for works in Arabic the focus is on the modern period. ...

African Healing Dance, with lead dancer Wyoma and the dancers and drummers of the Damballa dance troupe, is a step-by-step dance course on healing traditions and spiritual movements that are special to the African dance heritage. An African proverb teaches, "If you can talk, you can sing, and if you can walk, you can dance." Thus African Healing Dance is suited for beginning to advanced dancers, students of dance, instructors, and choreographers studying and/or performing African dance. The instructional video and included manual provide an effective guide for a dance or exercise program at home or in a workshop setting. Director of the Damballa dance troupe as well as head dancer, Wyoma begins with a simple warm-up, including breathing techniques; body articulation movements for the hips, chest, shoulders, and feet; and stretching. She then artistically integrates the teaching of six traditional African dances with the passion and joy of connecting dance movements that have the spirit and energy of nature and the elements (water, wind, fire, and earth) and animals such as the snake, elephant, and bird. A final portion of the 70-minute video is called "The Healing Journey," in which Wyoma encourages personal exploration of inner rhythms and feelings through improvisational movement. As one watches this video, it is difficult not to feel the pulse of the drumbeat and the spiritual strength of Wyoma and her celebration of life through dance.

From Sidney Poitier and Billie Holiday to Halle Berry and Tupac Shakur, African Americans in the Performing Arts profiles African Americans, from the early years to the present day, who have built successful careers in the performing arts. With up-to-date information, including commentary on the history-making event at the 2002 Oscars when African American actors won both best lead actor awards, this volume in the new A to Z of African Americans series offers a wealth of useful information for students, general readers, and lovers of the performing arts.

It isn’t easy to find grass-roots guitar samples sounding that raw ! Vintage Guitars fulfills the need for a guitar sound library gifted with an exceptionnal sound, borne of simplicity itself. The producer recorded a variety of authentic riffs and patterns using the best guitars and amps going through a vintage trident desk, with no effects or digital processing whatsoever, to get the warmest, un-digital guitar sound ever made available in a sample library.
Featured styles include blues, rock and all classic uses of mildly distorted tube-driven guitar amps.Minor and major patterns, solos, strums and arpeggios, plus some muted patterns that made rock bands legendary. All tempo and keys are provided for a quick pathfinder through this rich journey into rock ‘n roll. In the Akai patches most programs lay out the samples chromatically, making it even easier to match your current track. Soul and attitude abound in these guitars samples, making it difficult for anyone to resist adding a little on top of a Pop or R'n B production.