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SonicSpecialists has released Urban Fire: Sounds of the Super Producers Volumes 1 & 2. “Urban Fire” is a series of premium drum libraries geared towards today’s Hip-Hop & Pop producers and was developed by the engineers at SonicSpecialists.
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Utilizing high-end hardware and software from companies such as SSL, Universal Audio, Empirical Labs, and Neve, they have [...]

Musikmesse: Cakewalk today released Session Drummer 2 Hip Hop Pack Vol. 1, an expansion pack for Session Drummer 2.
The Session Drummer 2 Hip Hop Pack provides the essential sounds to get your productions started quickly. The Hip Hop Pack includes royalty-free kits, samples, and MIDI patterns that allow you to create thousands of Hip Hop [...]

The sound design team at Bangin-Beats has announced a new library of one shot drum samples entitled The Nasty Next Series, covering the Hip Hop & RnB music genre. The library consists of 10 construction kits focusing on the grungy drum flavor Bangin-Beats is known for, with several kits aimed at specific production tasks.
These kits [...]

PowerFX has released 3 new downloadable sample CDs: Pop Tools, Street Cred, and Breakdown Beats.
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Street Cred - Acid / Wav Format
Street Cred is a new hip-hop CD with over 320 beats, basses, keys, guitars and FX in styles like crunk, spank rock, hypy electro and dirty south. Produced by Radioactivebeats honcho Michael Davis.
Pop [...]

Big Fish Audio has released Reggaeton: Hot Latin Hip Hop - an audio sample library with 3.2 Gigs of Hot Latin Hip Hop.
You can preview the Reggaeton sample library below.
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Over the past several years, reggaeton has emerged from the underground dance scene to storm onto the urban music landscape. Deeply rooted in reggae, dance hall, [...]

 

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ModernBeats.com has introduced its first guitar loop library, entitled Urban Guitar Loops, covering a variety of modern Hip Hop, Urban, and Pop musical styles. The Loop library features over 350 sample accurate acidized WAV loops, compatible with all major software and hardware samplers.
Urban Guitar Loops contains a wide collection of original live recordings, plus urban [...]

Luz Mob’s eclectic style, freely blending hip-hop, latin, dub, jazz and soul, was brewed in part during his travels across the country for 3 years, from Brooklyn to the mountains of Colorado, to the S.F.City by The Bay.
In advance of releasing his Luz Interpretations album on January 23rd, 2007, Luz Mob is making available two [...]

 

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Smart Loops has released its Phat to Phreaky Hip-Hop loop library in Apple Loops and REX2 formats. Previously this essential collection of contemporary and old school grooves was available only in ACID format.
Now musicians and producers can create unique Hip-Hop tracks using any of the leading Mac and PC music software— including GarageBand, Logic Express, [...]

Big Fish Audio has released Club Hip Hop, a new sample library.
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For new and undiscovered hip hop artists, the ‘club track’ is the gateway to record contracts and chart success. The DJ hears it and plays it, it’s a hit on the dancefloor, the buzz starts, the labels start sniffing around…the next thing you know, [...]

Big Fish Audio has intro’d Hip Hop City, a new collection of Old & Nu-School Hip Hop construction kits.
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A slammin’ collection of 50 construction kits covering a variety of funky Old and Nu School Hip Hop styles. Inspired by the music of such artists asThe Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Trick Daddy, Missy Elliot, Lil [...]

ModernBeats has just released volume 2 of its Urban Anthemz instrument loops series for all major MAC and PC music software.
Urban Anthemz 2 contains 400 loops of urban melodies, riffs, and hooks where styles range widely from ganksta hip hop loops all the way to unheard of modern hip hop melodies & hooks.
“ModernBeats is all [...]

DJ Shadow’s The Outsider is a interesting, but frustrating collection of tracks from a DJ well-known for his creative use of samples, remixing and electronics.
It’s clear from the CD that DJ Shadow has talent out the wazoo. Unfortunately, Shadow goes in a dozen directions, flitting from style to style and collaborator to collaborator. Is this [...]

Big Fish Audio has introduced several new audio loop libraries.
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Off The Hook Hip Hop: West Coast
Sunny beaches, palm trees and of course, phat beats! Yeah, it’s time to take a trip to the West Coast, where it’s “Off the Hook”. If you thought Anthony Meyers was finished, guess again cause he”s just gettin” started with [...]

NAMM 2006 Winter Show: Zoom introduced the SB-246 Street Box, in collaboration with the hot Nashville-based producers Beat Kangz. A dedicated Hip Hop rhythm machine, the SB-246 features a slim, compact design, 529 Hip Hop sounds, studio quality effects, and a built-in sequencer with loop capability.
The SB-246 comes with an array of percussion and rhythm [...]

Ueberschall has announced a new music construction kit, Urban Jointz, a sample/loop library that is aimed at urban RnB and Hip-Hop producers who are looking for modern production elements: banging drums, hard hitting basses and keys.
Urban Jointz covers the spectrum of urban music crafted in the styles of the hottest chart-topping producers in the game [...]