Loopmasters brings to you a unique sample pack: African Expedisound Vol 1. With the Expedisound series, launched in 2004, Marseille-based label I.O.T Records built surprising bridges between cultures. Just imagine: the label's members - and their many supporters - loaded up trucks with machines, samplers, recorders, and microphones, and set off to discover traditional or trance music in West Africa, Indonesia, Ulan Bator, or deep in China's Yunnan.

At the crossroads of the Sound Conspiracy adventure, Real World, and field recording's quasi-ethnographic but still punk attempts, Expedisound telescoped popular or folk music from the four corners of the planet with the libertarian ideals of freewheeling electronic travelers.



African Expedisound in 2003, Mongolia Expedisound in 2007, ending with China Expedisound in 2012. These albums compile miles of road, parties, encounters, and, above all, sound. And it's this sonic material that is now finding a second wind: coupled with the Expedisound experience, the Soundbanks project compiles all the recording work prior to the various opuses in the series.


These soundbanks, a raw field-recording experience, bring together hundreds of hours of cut loops and samples available to producers in search of dusty roads or songs seemingly out of reach. I.O.T. Records now offers a new version of the soundbanks on Loopmasters: reworked, processed, and of better quality. This new ready-to-be-composed sound database features, initially, the sound material gleaned from the Expedisound dedicated to Africa.
African Expedisound Vol 1 features ambiances, various voices, djembes, doumdoums, mixed percussion loops and fills, and affected vocal hits.

In detail expect to find 208 MB of 24Bit 44.1KHZ wavs - 36 Percussion Loops, 11 Vocal Combi Loops, 54 Vocal Phrases, 20 Percussion Fills, 67 Vocals, 42 Perc Hits, and 11 Fx.

This collection is also fully Loopcloud ready. More information can be found about Loopmasters award winning software here: loopcloud.com