Rating: 7 out of 10



Infectious, 70s samples, lovingly mastered to vinyl before being digitised.



It seems that 70s revival follows 70s revival and the perennial flare-wearer never need look far for opportunities to

indulge in velour trouser-based activity. Haven't we all had enough? Zero-G think not.



Sounds of the 70s comprises 41 soul, funk, disco and punk (but mostly soul and funk) construction kits. Nine toolkits

of purely single-shot sounds are also included. Each loop is featured as a full mix, with variations, and as individual

parts. You can tweak and mangle to your heart's content using Native Instruments' Intakt host - the powerful

beatslicing engine that enables you to free your loops from the constraints of fixed tempo.



The sound library, written and produced by Mike Wilkie and Matthew Corbett, weighs in at around 1GB and is not full of

the cliche you might expect, featuring many respectable and usable samples, all recorded in the most authentic way

possible. Instruments from the age were played and recorded as they were in the 70s and then, to top it all, everything

was mastered to vinyl using 70s valuve Eqs and compressors, before finally entering the digital domain.



All the material is original and after a while you find yourself gyrating like Travolta and pointing skywards, your eyes

glazing over and a dancefloor-filling house remix thudding away in your head. Each loops has been written with two

sections and the individual parts that go together to make them are mapped across the keyboard, so you can add and

remove them at will.



This is a very usable collection of 70s sounds that benefits from meticulous attention to detail in production and deftly

manoeuvres around the dark abyss of cheesy 70s predictability.