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"Freaky Beat's Essential Grooves came up just short for me by not offering loops of individual elements, but other than that, they're an excellent collection of material."
--Greg Geller


"Excellent jams, excellent audio quality, excellent value, need I say more?"
--Garth Fields


"As a DJ who drops a lot of Tribal House into my sets, buying the Essential Grooves package is a no-brainer."
--Dave Roberts


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November 12, 2007

../ TestDrive: Freaky Beat's Essential Grooves Pack

In today's ever-shifting musical landscape, it's not enough for labels to simply sell tracks and generate the same revenue as year's past. It's now mandatory for everyone in the retail food chain to explore new opportunities that will ultimately create new profit models. Some ventures have yielded dismal results, while others have uncovered a previously untapped oil reserve. One of the more successful forays has been to sell stems from successful tracks, or well-known artists. Freaky Beat, a Spanish concern, has adopted the latter approach with their Essential Grooves releases.


The Freaky Beat Essential Grooves Pack

The Freaky Beat Essential Grooves Pack


Freaky has tapped a solid roster of artists including D-Formation, J. Velarde, Sergio Fernandez, David Ferrero and Roman Lieske, to provide musical material for DJs, producers and remixers. The offerings mainly consist of drum loops, in various tribal flavors, although some of the artists, such as J. Velarde, also provide melodic episodes. Unfortunately, none of the musical enterprises provide key information, or other relevant information that would greatly benefit remix artists.


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Freaky Beat did an outstanding job of accumulating excellent material from the artists, every one of the loops, especially on the percussion tip, are not only usable, but also inspiring. For producers, the material provides a rewarding educational opportunity. The loops peel away everything except the rhythmic elements, revealing exactly how these artists are constructing their trademark grooves. However, the loops are never parsed down to their individual elements, kick drum, snare, congas, etc., and this may be deemed a serious flaw to users who want to delve deeply into tweaking the loops for their own productions.



For DJs, both analog and digital, the €20 Essential Grooves Pack is a treasure chest of solid riffs that you can utilize in your sets as transitions, or to remix some of your record bag favorites on the fly. In fact, used as a DJ tool kit, Essential Grooves will allow you to develop memorable sets, especially if you're into the Iberian sound.

More information about: Freaky Beat's Essential Grooves

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At $12 per pack, Freaky Beat's Essential Grooves are a great value and recommended to anyone looking for high-quality loops that will elevate their game.

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