mini reviews
Soundware round-up
Audiotent
Realm £37
Time for a trip through a tech-house wonderland, with hundreds of music loops and single-hit drum samples to explore. Solid and slick rhythms pull and pulse, as toughly layered drums rain on down. You’ll find some flashback retro synth sounds, along the way. But, it’s always the swarm of newly minted club bass styles that keep you heading for the horizon. Elsewhere, pads and atmospheres maintain peak pressure, as rumble strips and FX keep eyes and ears darting up and down. Plucky producers will have a grand old time muddying their boots with the textures and track-starting samples on offer in this full sized library.
audiotent.com
9/ 10
Zenhiser
Pattern – Melodic House &
Techno
£34
More exquisite sound design, this time delving deep into the texture and territory of delectable dance music, old and new. Inspired by some of the finest melodic and tech house labels, the 5GB of bass, beats and booty in these crates will keep you topped up in highly usable and musical loops and hits, wrought from an Aladdin’s cave of analogue and digital kit. Mesmerising Moog and Prophet lead lines shine the brightest, with bespoke foley and funk drum hits coming in a close but worthy second.