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The Other Side: Los Angeles is the fifth in a series of CD/DVD combinations in Time Out’s Other Side series of audiovisual travelogues. Each release features a different destination, and has a CD compiled by a local DJ, along with a video tour.
We recently took a look at Time Out’s The Other Side: Berlin, which [...]

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, [...]