We are back again with another soundhound, and this time we are taking another look at the folks over at primeloops.com.
Previously we took a look at their human beat box sample kit, which was superb.
We know they can do drums and percussion well, but what about other sounds? Let’s checkout this new kit they sent over for review.
Planet of the Orchestra is your own exotic record collection
You know I’m always on the lookout for a funky groove, loop, or lick to chop up.
But not just funk, I want anything that will spark my creativity, so I was excited about this release from primeloops.
From the website:
Imagine if the best Orchestra’s most talented musicians and top artists from India, America, Africa, Japan, Australia, Europe and China all got together in one huge recording facility, and jammed together…the result? Planet of the Orchestra.
Sounds like a good musical gumbo to me! I had to check this out, especially because I like strings, as well as exotic other-cultural musical riffs.
It’s like having you own collection of rare world, etchnic, and orchestral records…and not having to pay any sample clearance!
The real question is how does it sound…
You know around here we like to cut to the chase. I’m going to be honest, before I reviewed it I wasn’t expecting too much, I’m used to reviewing things with hundreds and hundreds of sounds, so seeing this was only 100+ had me a little concerned.
All that concern turn into ecstatically bubbly ear orgasmic pleasure when I heard the sounds. Yeah, I made up that phrase, but so what, it’s how I felt…don’t judge me lol.
The sounds in this collection are unlike anything I’ve ever heard, they are not merely loops, but each one is a fully produced masterpiece of sound and emotion.
I have never come across a collection this diverse and well recorded. I feel like I have mastered copies of studio recordings from some of the greatest sessions on earth.
The sound is second to none…
What about the diversity or style, is it usable?
If you can’t use this to make something magical then quit…seriously.
There is sooooooooooooo much in this collection I really don’t know where to start, or stop…I can go on for days.
Like I said, you get fully produced mini masterpieces in each and every loop, you never know what to expect.
One loop may take you to the jungles of Africa, another to the palaces in China, while the next takes you to a Kentucky back yard, followed by an elegant concert hall orchestra performance.
It’s really like a box of chocolates….freaking amazing.
If you love your music and love to be creative get this NOW
I’ll admit, I’m an optimist. I feel I can use pretty much anything to spark some creative compositions. But every once in a while I come across things that are absolutely a MUST HAVE, and this is one of them.
Really, the level of detail and professional production put into each one of these loops is simply astonishing.
Like I said before, each one is pretty much a full masterpiece in itself. Ready to become the foundation for your next epic adventure, or peaceful serenade.
Whatever you want to do, wherever you want to go, you’ll find something in here to help you get there.
I have to give this collection a 5/5 subs, it’s THAT good, really.
What I like is how well produced each loop is.
This is not like a collection of loops that all play off of each other, no sir.
This is like a collection of 100+ rare orchestral, world, and exotic samples ready to go into your music.
Go checkout planet of the orchestra, peep the demos, then try and call me a liar….you won’t be able to.
primeloops has done something wonderful for the music community, I suggest you appreciate it.
The beauty of the loop you put together is its got the same chord motion as the original sample, so you can actually bust back and forth between the two.
Nice!
Yeah idigenous and ethnic grooves can really be a mindspace opener. The only job I ever failed when I was doing film production gigs was an Iranian film , or rather Iranian australian film. Dude I knew, Iranian refugee did this amazing short about this girl coming across from morally conservative Iran to hedonistic australia and learning how to relate and shit. This guy , as often is the case, gave me a soundtrack pieced together from Iranian music he got into and asked me to basically retrack it with original music. Its pretty standard procedure with a lot of that. Freaking amazing music. The scales are off the wall. I did some stuff he loved and all, but in the end I pulled out, because I just felt I couldn’t give the tradition justice and felt he needed to get someone iranian who knew the music to do it. Funny thing was, the guy he got ended up using some breakbeats from some of the fusion-electro stuff and combined it with genuine iranian stuff and it worked beautifully.
Sometimes you gotta look out your own hole to find new horizons. One of the most amazing things I ever heard was Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album. Basically cut up bartok, mashed it up with his trademark super glitch 7/8 madness and made something that instead of being IDM mental masturbation was an actually genuinely beautiful piece of art. Now to get there he had to spend a bunch of time in Hungary learning to “get” bartok, but man, what a masterpiece.
I know with my own stuff I’ve been exploring Nyungah (the aboriginal nation that used to run the area in australia I live in) music, learning about gamalean (indonesian orchestra), and so on.
Y’all gotta be careful in some way when you sample from other cultures that you aren’t kinda colonising other peoples culture and turning interesting and wise old traditions into generic ‘world music’, but if you treat the subject matter with respect and understand to walk away if you cant, these old traditions have a world of material to create amazing and fresh music.
Thanks Shayne!
That is a very good observation, a lot of these other cultures put very high tradition and respect on their music. That’s another reason why I’d rather just use stuff like this sample pack, I know it was made by the actual musicians for the sample pack…so it’s expected to be used in various ways.
Thanks for the input man, it’s very valuable and you definitely have a fresh perspective. I’m glad to have you here on the site!
Sounds Great Joe! Keep it up! Can’t wait for the next review!
Thanks bro, glad you liked it homie!
I wish they made a part 2 to this. I have this and it is absolutely sick
@diggy, I agree fam, this joint goes hard!