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DISTORTED
REALITY
If you're making any kind of edge music and you
own a sampler, Distorted Reality is a library that you must hear.
From shredded beats to unidentifiable hysteria, this disc has it
nailed....plenty of variety...gorgeous curtains of sound --everything
from ominous rumbles suitable for the soundtrack of Alien IV to
flute solos that blossom with odd echoes....aggressive modern sounds...heavily
processed....massively distorted loops...mangled...hysterical...especially
nasty....a whole universe of metallic buzzes and tweedles....full
and ominous....drum hits that sound like cannons in the Grand Canyon...extreme,
rude, in-your-face percussion noises from hell...this will definitely
get your listeners' blood pumping.....sliced-off hits suitable for
raves, panicky echoing crowd noises, very tasty bowed metal samples,
throbbing electronic mandolins, sandworms in hyperspace, pennywhistles
from the ninth dimension, and things that fly by so fast you can't
tell what they are...............For the progressively minded, it's
a feast.
- KEYBOARD Magazine Triple 5 STAR review
"The title of this compilation might equally well have been
Beauty and the Beast because it contains both breathtakingly beautiful
evolving pads plus some seriously distorted, twisted sounds that
score highly on the aggression scale...a wonderful selection of
ambient pads...instant film soundtrack...fuzz gets everywhere, even
on the drums, but it's all done so tastefully...a great section
of drones that would see the Terminator films through the next three
sequels...Indian drones that have been flanged and processed to
the point of destruction...ambient drums which range from cavernous
and spacey to industrial and tortured...aggressive mayhem...most
of the samples manage to avoid being categorized too rigorously...loads
of really good sci-fi noises and pads, filter sweeps, synthetic
bass sounds and even a couple of Gothic Choirs...the real strength
of this collection lies in its numerous evolving, textural sweeps....It
really is difficult to pigeonhole this disk other than to say that
the overall coefficient of weirdness is significantly higher than
average, but I have no hesitation in recommending this remarkable
sample collection to anyone involved in soundtrack work, ambient
techno music or honest to goodness New Age. It's also gratifying
to see that most of the samples are relatively short and there are
few that wouldn't fit into 8Mbytes of ROM.......Awarded the SOS
five stars for weirdness above and beyond the call of duty!"
- SOUND ON SOUND Magazine 5 STAR review
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