Featuring a large array of tribal/ethnic music loops in construction-style format, ModernBeats releases "Tribal Xplosion Loops 1". This melodic construction style loopset delivers 310+ loops derived from 26 multi-track construction loop themes. Each of the 26 multi-track themes provides layered performances of ethnic & urban instruments where each layer is separated into its own instrument loop file. Plus, all loops mix-match seamlessly together, allowing users to create hundreds of original multi-track music combinations with ease.
 

European company Wolsfraektroes Music has released Beetz n Bobz Shock Out, a set of "in your face" drum & bass sounds ready for dancefloor productions. The pack size is 650mb with 128 drum loops, 150 single hits, 20 musical loops, 5 drum kits, 84 bass sounds, 40 pads, 51 sound effects, and 118 synth sounds.

 

The set comes in Wav and Rex for drum loops formats. There is also a 'boutBeats Bonus Folder containing 20 Speaker Smashing Drum Loops. This pack has been aimed at the dance floor jump up, techstep, jungle and wobble heads which need high quality breaks, bass and everything else every time they get in the studio.

I Love Tibet (Discovery Sound, 2008) is a classy collection of Tibetan samples with a specially included movie. The faithful performances of sacred instruments & voices. In the Tibet Autonomous Region under the occupation of China, extreme human rights violations have continued, and their traditional Buddhist music is also in peril to disappear. Soon after his arrival in India in 1959, Dalai Lama re-organized the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, and their tradition and culture are still maintained by many Tibetan exiles settled in the town.

 

To record the genuine Tibetan samples on this library, Discovery Sound visited the refugee settlement under the Tibetan Government-in-Exile located in Dharamsala, Northern India.

A new DVD-Rom about the Japanese koto is now available. The new release, titled Koto, was recorded with the player facing the koto using the correct posture and emotional display to achieve the high quality 96 kHz/24bit sound. You can hear many basic play techniques such as types of chalking, finger slides, pizzicato, and arpeggios all inside 1023 file.

 The koto is not only used in traditional music, but also modern day composers have also used the instrument in collaboration with orchestras since the early 1900’s. The koto captures the pure sound of Japan. It was used in old Japanese court music to sooth the body. It has also been said that this instrument could purify you mind, body, and soul.

Of the latest batch of Sony Sound Series collection of loops and samples, Richard Devine's The Electronic Music Manuscript really stands out. Despite the title, the impressive collection includes not only electronic instruments, but also ethnic instruments, which makes it specially attractive to global electronica musicians, who want to add fabulous loops to their sampling collections. The ethnic instruments include didjeridu, bells, drums, flutes and congas.

Of course, most of the sounds in this two-CD set are electronic in nature. The set features a wide range of inspiring sounds such as prepared piano, strange ambiences, EVP Shortwave recordings, drum loops, strings and pads pads,  and lots more.

The Rondo Brothers are masters of trip-hop, an electronica genre that lends itself well to be combined with world elements. On their latest loop collection, Seven Minutes To Midnight: Trip-Hop Loops & Samples, Jim Greer and Brandon Arnovick provide 581 captivating royalty-free WAV file loops.

The loop collection is divided into 17 songs, with melodies performed on guitars, electronic keyboards and other instruments,  inspired by pop, rock and world sounds.

Based in San Francisco, The Rondo Brothers was formed in 2003. In 2006 the Rondos' contribued to a remix by Dan The Automator (Gorillaz, Deltron 3030), and a New York Dolls remix for their 2006 release on Roadrunner Records. They also worked with producer Dan The Automator on Deltron 3030, Galactic's Ruckus, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and Head Automatica.

Parthenon Huxley's Six-String Orchestra is part of the appealing Sony's Sound Series Loops & Samples Premium collection. The six strings refer to electric guitars. Guitarist Parthenon Huxley recorded a remarkable collection of 15 rock and pop song sessions played on significant vintage electric guitars.

Parthenon Huxley is a well-known electric guitarist and producer who worked for many years in the Chapel Hill and Los Angeles music scenes. For the sessions, Huxley worked with three other musicians wh also have their own collections of loops: drummer Siggi Baldursson, bassist Tony Franklin and keyboardist Matt Fink. "We used a Matchless Chieftain, which is a 2X12. and what we love about the Matchless is the transparency of it and the clean signal. It doesn't color what you get bock, " explains Huxley in the liner notes. "When you plug a Les Paul In, it sounds like a Les Paul. When we did the Telecaster, it sounded like a Telecaster. We had a Shure SM57 shoved up against the grill, off-center of one speaker but on axis.

Gabi Masso Oriental String Sessions Vol. 1-3 (PowerFX, 2008)
 
 Swedish company PowerFX continues with its world music line of music samples with the release of the mesmerizing Gabi Masso Oriental String Sessions Vol. 1-3 downloadable sample CD.
 
 The samples included on Gabi Masso Oriental String Sessions Vol. 1-3 are high quality Middle Eastern string arrangements performed by top Turkish session players. The string fest consists of 11 violins, 3 violas and a cello recorded together in 24-bit stereo. Gabi Masso is is originally from Syria but he has lived in Sweden most of his life. He composed the captivating music played in the ‘Gabi Masso Oriental String Ensemble Sessions’.