Tomoki Hirata - Millennium Garage

https://www.discogs.com/release/8625031-Tomoki-Hirata-Millennium-Garage ================================================ Millennium Garage ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? (AUDIO/WAV- & AIFF-FORMAT CD) ================================================ With all things millennial (domes, bugs, wobbly bridges and so on) looking about as cool as men with pony tails wearing shell suits and speaking into mobile phones the size of housebricks, you might be forgiven for thinking that Millennium Garage has missed the bandwagon of the century by at least eight months. Fortunately, the quality of the material on this dual-format CD from Crypton Future Media means that, although all sample CDs have a limited shelf life, this one at least provides spadeloads of instant gratification and a mainlining source plugged straight into the heart of current garage trends. Producer Tomoki Hirata provides a disc with all of the material stored as WAV- and AIFF-format samples. In terms of style Millennium Garage is perfectly pitched at those looking for an accessible and credible slice of 21st century programming which doesn't dwell solely on forms of the past. There are 30 construction kits to work with, ranging in tempo from 127 to 136bpm. In each case you get large numbers of constituent rhythm and instrumental tracks to play with. The kits feature the obvious drum and bass tracks (all largely terrific and hugely suited to the genre) but it's in the keyboard, effects and vocal samples that Tomoki's talents really come to the fore. With the 'boom' and 'tick' expertly taken care of, and filling the speakers nicely down at the bottom end, there is plenty of space 'up top' for some bitingly musical pads, pianos and string noises, as well as some authentic vocal samples that (unusually for a dance sample CD) don't make you want to curl up and die with embarrassment. The last section of the disc (tracks 31 to 47) contains a sizeable collection of the individual single-hit and multisampled sounds -- this is particularly useful for the bass, piano and string sections. Many sample CDs would give you just a couple of notes but, with this CD, you get on average eight notes over three or more octaves with which to build your own patches. The layout of the construction kits is sensible enough, with tempos getting faster as the disc progresses. The arrangement of the actual sample material also scores very highly, losing only a couple of kudos points for not listing relevant key signatures. Construction-kit sample CDs seem to be the way that the sample-buying public likes to have their sounds presented to them these days and I must confess that, for instant sample access, it's hard to imagine a quicker format to work with. The down side, of course, is that it tends to encourage less user experimentation and, with only 30 kits to work from, you could argue that Millennium Garage offers only a handful of actual track ideas compared to some other releases. However, what you get is such an inspired and a near perfect slice of highly usable garage material that this disc offers enough flexibility and programming quality to render many other sample CDs positively old hat. ======================================================================================== The CD-ROM includes: ??? 30 different Construction Kits ( set of loop + sample ) ??? Drums & Percussion single hits and drum loops of rich variation ??? Phrase + sample piano , bass , organ ,?? synth ??? Voice story / synth FX / guitar / electric piano / clap / R ?? cymbals ??? Single-shot Drums ( 108 type bass drum type 53 , snare , hi-hat 115 type )?? ??? Multi- sample ( Organ , piano , electric piano , bass, synth )?? ??? Phrase and loop from 136BPM to 127BPM ??? CD-ROM recorded in WAV & AIFF sound format including demo songs ========================================================================================