Rating: 8 out of 10



At this time, Big Beat isn't as popular anymore in the dance scene, but our popular Swedish friends from E-Lab have released a new title for this genre.



The audio CD really hooks you up with some of the phattest beats. Most of the loops also present their individual sound, but unfortunately there are no recycle style midi files along with them. Besides the loops there are tons of sounds, like 303 sounds that are work up to the most awesome textures. The character of this whole set varies between smoothly and extravagantly raw. Big similarity is that all drumloops or soundloops are in 135 or 140 BPM. That's not really a problem because those tempo's are very suitable for this kind of music. The additional WAV files CD gives you some bonus material and winds up the total amount of samples up to 1,700.



Quality-wise there's nothing wrong with the material you get for your hard earned. While the typical character for big beat remains, the producers did their best to make the sound as clinical as possible. Dynamically, some sounds could be done better, but then again everyone probably has the right tools to spice that up.



Maybe with this splendid title there will be some new big beats on the market.