Smokers Relight Deux Reviewed By Remix Magazine
by Jason Scott Alexander
DVD 1 of Smokers Relight Deux is crammed with 5,012 24-bit loops and samples in Acidized-WAV format (more than 7 GB), while DVD 2 contain 1,163 24-bit REX2 (also prepared for stylus RMX) and a huge 2 GB Reason 3 ReFill file featuring some 4,755 samples and combinator patches. Loops are divided between folders for MPC Loops & Vinyl Breaks, Music Loops & Chord Mix, mixed percussion and other instrument loops. Everything is conveniently shoehorned into 80, 90 or 100 bpm categories, which I love because it allows you to get inspired like a jamming musician, parleying one loop off another without worrying if they'll fit. The MPC vinyl-style loops cover hip-hop/dub and trippy jazz with enormous bottom end and tidal-size swing and swagger. Themed with variations and no-kick versions, they contain just the right amount of saturation, grit and grime to dirty their soul, but not without te occasional sprinkling of sugar on top to give them a crisp, modern dub-lounge aesthetic. While the Fender Jazz bass playing sounds doped out, the chosen amp tone was a little lackluster becuase it hardly changed throught the 225 phrases. But the 395 heavily processed flute, tenor sax, trumpet and Rhodes riffs, chords and effects were mind-blowingly cool-enough so that it made me say, "Screw the beats," and focus on creating some minimalist pieces. Other novel treats include vintage Organ Beatbox patterns, processed reggae-dub percussion loops for accenting the main beats and a wweekend's worth of single-instrument hits, chords, and riffs by key. But there's more! Beatmakers will get high stuffing their samplers with the 453 kicks, 300 snares, 96 claps and 341 hi-hats and other percussion . If weed-soaked dub floats your sub, check out this joint.
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