Perhaps the best testament that I can give to the CD is that it took about twice as long to review as a sample CD usually takes. "Distorted Reality 1 was one of the first "Weird Stuff" type CD's to be produced that are now proving to be quite popular a genre in their own right. Awarded the SOS five stars for weirdness above and beyond the call of duty!" It's also gratifying to see that most of the samples are relatively short and there are few that wouldn't fit into 8Mbytes of ROM. It really is difficult to pigeonhole this disk other than to say that the overall coefficient of weirdness is significantly higher than average, but I have no hesitation in recommending this remarkable sample collection to anyone involved in soundtrack work, ambient techno music or honest to goodness New Age. the real strength of this collection lies in its numerous evolving, textural sweeps. loads of really good sci-fi noises and pads, filter sweeps, synthetic bass sounds and even a couple of Gothic Choirs. most of the samples manage to avoid being categorized too rigorously. ambient drums which range from cavernous and spacey to industrial and tortured. Indian drones that have been flanged and processed to the point of destruction. a great section of drones that would see the Terminator films through the next three sequels. fuzz gets everywhere, even on the drums, but it's all done so tastefully. "The title of this compilation might equally well have been Beauty and the Beast because it contains both breathtakingly beautiful evolving pads plus some seriously distorted, twisted sounds that score highly on the aggression scale. For the progressively minded, it's a feast." sliced-off hits suitable for raves, panicky echoing crowd noises, very tasty bowed metal samples, throbbing electronic mandolins, sandworms in hyperspace, pennywhistles from the ninth dimension, and things that fly by so fast you can't tell what they are. this will definitely get your listeners' blood pumping. extreme, rude, in-your-face percussion noises from hell. drum hits that sound like cannons in the Grand Canyon. a whole universe of metallic buzzes and tweedles. gorgeous curtains of sound - everything from ominous rumbles suitable for the soundtrack of Alien IV to flute solos that blossom with odd echoes. From shredded beats to unidentifiable hysteria, this disc has it nailed. Kyra - Largo 2 - Nave - microQ (Factory Soundset 2000) - PPG Wave 3."If you're making any kind of edge music and you own a sampler, Distorted Reality is a library that you must hear. Hive 2 - Metaphorium - Podolski - Triple Cheese SuperNova Soundpack - SuperNova Soundpack II - UltraNova - V-StationĬhipsounds - chipspeech - chipsynth C64 - chipsynth MD - chipsynth OPS7 - chipsynth PortaFM - chipsynth SFCĭ-70 - Fantom X - GAIA 2 - JD-800 - JD-990 - JD-Xi - SR-JV80-01 Pop - SR-JV80-04 Vintage Synth - SR-JV80-06 Dance - SR-JV80-07 Super SoundSet - SR-JV80-09 Session - SR-JV80-11 Techno Collection - SR-JV80-12 Hip Hop Collection - SR-JV80-15 Special FX Collection - SR-JV80-19 House Collection - SRX-03 Studio SRX - SRX-05 Supreme Dance - SRX-06 Complete Orchestra - SRX-07 Ultimate Keys - SRX-08 Platinum Trax - SRX-09 World Collection - V-Synth Version 1 - V-Synth Version 2 - VC-1 - XV-5080 Orbit - Orbit-3 - Proteus 2000 - Proteus 2500 - Turbo Phatt - UltraProteus - XK-6 Xtreme KeysĪbu Dhabi - ARP ODYSSEY - Bilbao - DW-8000 - ELECTRIBE-R - EXB-RADIAS - Fairbanks - KAOSS PAD - Legac圜ell - M1 - M3 - microKORG - miniKORG - modwave native - MonoPoly - MS-20 - MS2000 - opsix native - Polysix - Prophecy - RADIAS - TR-Rack - TRITON - TRITON Extreme - Vancouver - wavestate native - WAVESTATIONĪbsynth - FM8 - Massive - Nocturnal State - Opaline Drift - Pharlight - Stadium Flex - Super 8 Acid V - Ambient Soundscapes - ARP 2600 V3 - Augmented STRINGS - Augmented VOICES - CMI V - Crosswave Techno - CZ V - DX7 V - Emulator II V - Jup-8 V4 - Matrix-12 V2 - Mini V3 - Mini V4 - MiniFreak V - Modular V3 - PatchWorks - Percussive Drive - Pigments - Prophet-VS V - SQ80 V - Synclavier V - Synthi V - Synthopedia - Vector Atmospheres - Vocoder V
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