「見事に洗練された内容。時代を先取りしたダンスフロア・ミュージックを作り出すHouseクリエイター達の御用達になること請け合い。隅々まで行き届いたハイ・クオリティの音質と使い易くグループ分けされたテンポ。Zero-G社の製品と聞けばその音質は保証されているも同然だが、加えてこの使い勝手の良さとスマートなレイアウトが音楽制作の楽しさを倍増している。インスピレーションの泉が止めど無く湧き出してくる、そんな感じのするCDだ。」 "There really is very little about this beautifully polished and compiled release that warrants anything other than high praise. Having gathered together some of the big names in house music sound design and programming, Zero-G have come up with as close to the definitive resource for the house producer as could be imagined. Each track typically contains 10 samples or loops all sensibly edited, listed with their appropriate bpm and key signature and all perfectly suited to the samplist looking for some cutting-edge dance-floor fodder. The meticulous attention to detail shines through not only in the sound quality which is excellent overall (except when it's supposed not to be), but in the way that the whole library is forced into easy-to-manage tempo sets of 120, 125, 130, 135, and 140bpm. Gloriously, this covers all the samples including the wonderful collection of guitar riffs and licks, synth phrases and electric bass loops. With a name like Zero-G you can expect quality, but the sheer ease of use and clever layout of this library will make Total House both a pleasure to use and source of inspiration for a long while to come.



There are rich pad textures and a vast array of retro analogue wizzes and bleeps, and the guitar and bass licks are highly usable and cover a wide range of house sub-genres from '70s funk to heavily processed semi-rock sounds. For dedicated programmers with time to spare, there are a good number of multisamples of many of the instruments, and (which is more important), they are usable multisamples (not just bottom C and middle C, like some other sample CDs I could mention). There are a good number of weird vocal samples (both sung and spoken). The drum loops are universally excellent - there seem to be so many finely tuned 'kickin' house breakbeats stuffed onto the disk that finding something that wouldn't work in your house track would, I imagine, be almost impossible.



Zero-G's Total House is a dedicated product in a specialist field that succeeds on a number of levels. It would be worth the asking price for the drum loops alone, but as it stands Total House gives you over 144 track-minutes of raw sample material in both audio and WAV formats".