Big Fish Audio (BFA)
is one of my biggest distributors in the U.S. and are constantly
updating their website to provide the latest and greatest from the
sampling world. Recently the site has taken a whole new overhaul and if
I might say a step in the right direction. The website is a lot easier
to navigate and the the layout has improved 10 fold. I think the Google
bots really like it because within a week of the new look Big Fish was
already a PR5.
As most of you already know the days of waiting
on a sample CD in the mail (though still some of like having that hard
copy) are soon going to be history with the digital age taking over and
BFA is already in place to provide producers and musicians with instant
access to some of the hottest samples available.
Big Fish will
still offer the original sample CD packs as well as downloadable
versions so they will definitely have the best of both worlds until the
CD eventually becomes an inadequate item.
You will find all of Discovery's sample CDs
available on the Big Fish website and soon available for download as
well. So what are you waiting for? Get on over and check out the latest
and greatest from BFA. You'll be glad you did.
Discovery
Downloader will present a great line up of sound content produced by
Emerging English Composer, Simon Wolfe. His samples, loops, sound
effects, and production music are readily available for royalty free
use in film, television, video games, live performances, and other
multimedia projects.
We have just uploaded 114 high quality
music tracks in WAV & MP3 formats supplied by Simon Wolfe. His
tracks are available with a wide range of music genres including
ambient, ethnic, classical, dance, rock electronica and more!
So Just who is this Simon Wolfe? An
emering composer for Television, Documentary film soundtracks and
multimedia. Simon has written music sweeping across many genres from
Ochestra, World, and Electronic to ambient, dance and classical. Some
of his work has featured in the World Music Track CD released by
Productiontrax.
His track "Next to you" was chosen for the film "HARD PILL" (writer/director John Baumgartner starring Jonathan Slavin)
Credits include:
"Wall to Wall" Television UK (dinosaur documentary), "Illuminations" UK (music written and arranged for a documentary on Captain Cook's painter, William Hodges on expeditions to Tahiti and India, featuring contributions by Sir David Attenborough), CHANNEL 5 TV, UK DISCOVERY CHANNEL, WEST COUNTRY TV (product advertising), SKY SPORT - middle east: (FORMULA 1, GREAT SPORTING MOMENTS, PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL)
The review was kinda a downer to read in some parts of the review, but nevertheless was lucky enough to be featured in MTM issue 76 which actually sold out. I can't find an issue to save my life, but fortunately the kind crew over at MTM was kind enough to send me their "last" copy.
Even if it didn't get the best review I was looking for it still got a good response from the producers and DJs that bought the album to use in their own productions.
Since the magazine was sold out and from the word on the street no reprints coming in the near future I have posted the review here for those of you who want to hear what MTM had to say about Koto sample DVD.
Loopmasters Ltd. has gone out of their way again to promote Discovery Sound's
world ethnic sample cds and this time the ad is huge. Now our samples
can be downloaded directly from the Loopmasters website. (The days of
waiting 2 weeks for the mail to arrive before you can start producing
are over!!!)
Loopmasters gives new meaning to the word
"distributor". They are always providing the best services and returns
for all of their partners/labels. In short they don't beat around the
bush. This is probably the main reason why they are so far ahead of the
competition. Their reputation is inspecable and they are the leaders of
the sampling industry.
Loopmasters doesn't play around when it
comes to promotion for their artitsts. They are and will probably still
be 20 years down the road, the best friend (next to your dog) you can
have.
We always enjoy reviewing
ethnic sample libraries from Discovery Sound because, quite frankly, they never
disappoint Interesting content and immaculately produced recordings are the
norm.
I Love
Tibet
focuses mainly on Buddhist music and chanting - sacred percussion, wind instruments
and sutras -together with the more traditional percussion, winds and strings associated
with Tibetan opera. Because of the occupation of Tibet
by China, the location recordings
took place in Dharamsala, India, home of the Dalai Lama and
the Tibetan Government in Exile.As a consequence of the occupation, Tibetan culture is constantly under
threat, but the refugees living in India faithfully preserve their
traditional music, both religious and secular.
As usual, the entire album appears to have been well planned from the
outset and adheres mainly to a simple ACID/WAV/REX2 format for the three main instrument categories: wind,
strings and percussion.That goes for
the vocal samples too: a rich variety of spoken words, phrases and songs by men,
women and children, plus solo mantras and group chanting by Buddhist monks.In addition, a couple of the stringed instruments are available in Kontakt
format and thewonderful Tibetan percussion, bells and cymbals are also presented in Battery format.
All in all, this is a delightful collection, and considering the cost of the location recording, it's good
value for money. We recommend a visit to theDiscovery Sound website, where you can preview the samples and see movie
demos of the instruments and performers. KG