Fancy some loud and live guitars, basses and drums on your next project? Rough and raw material in the style of The Stooges, Television, Gang of Four or the Sex Pistols? If so, you’ll find an abundance of copyright-free rock samples (more than 900 .WAV and 750 REX2) on Raw Power, the latest sample CD in the Origin Series, from Loopmasters.
Producers Jay Price and Jez Miller have put together a cracking collection of rocking sounds, from the 70s punk era right through to the alternative and nu metal of today. Everything was sampled using the most authentic equipment available in a variety of styles and tempos, then categorized into folders such as New York Underground, Alternative USA, England’s Dreaming, Artskool and New Wave.



Everything is well recorded using only minimal EQ and effects, leaving you free to treat the samples in whichever way you choose. And the inclusion of REX2 files, of course, means that you can use these short loops at just about any tempo that’s musically sensible. The documentation is good too, with all the loops having descriptive titles and subtitles according to tempo and key.



There’s also an extra Toolkit folder containing acoustic guitar chords, five drum kits and useful vocal snippets, such as cries of ‘rock‘n’roll’ and sweetly sung ‘ohh-la-la-la’s.



It all adds up to a particularly useful library, ideally suited to constructing rock tracks, musical collages, soundtracks or just about any other project where rock‘n’roll attitude and realism are necessary ingredients.



A well-produced, value-for-money rock sample cd.