Inside this collection of stunning tribal samples you’ll find over 1GB of tech house rolling bass loops, full drum loops, tribal top loops, melodic stabs, vocal glitch loops, synth one shots, bass one shots, tribal FX transitions, drum and percussion loops and one shots as well as all TR808 and TR909 drum machine samples. Tribal house is a subgenre of house music which combines traditional house music with world music. It is similar in structure to deep house, but provides.
Sample Library
Tribal Tech House presents around 850MB of unique content in WAV, Apple Loops, REX and Stylus RMX formats, with patches for EXS24, Halion, Kontakt 2 and Reason NNXT, giving a total of just over 2.5GB of data.
3.5
The samples are grouped into different folders of loops, including Basslines, Beats and Combi Loops, for example, and a drum‑hits folder including Crash Hats and Kicks. The loops are further grouped by tempo into 125bpm, 127bpm and 130bpm folders. While this isn't quite construction‑kit format, it makes it simple to piece together the basis of a track by selecting what you need quickly and easily. The melodic loops are also clearly labelled in their filenames to show their keys.
As for the sounds themselves, I started with the beats and was pleased to find that most of the loops offered at least two variations (sometimes more). Because of the quite minimal nature of tribal and tech‑house music, these loops often have quite a lot of space in them, which is not only true to form for the genre, but also handy for using them in other contexts, as it allows you to build things quite subtly. Further percussive loops can be found in the Tops and Percussion Loops folders. Many of the loops have little glitchy, processed elements that add timbral and rhythmic interest, without being overbearing. There's not a huge selection of individual drum hits, but the sounds that are here have been well chosen to fit with the genre and are all very clean, solid and well recorded.
Moving on to the melodic loops, I have to say that, while they are very good and many of them could form the basis for a club hit, they suffer from the problem that is inherent in this type of product: many of the sequences/grooves are great, but having quite short loops in one key seriously limits what you can do with them. The Apple Loop versions have a degree more flexibility because you can transpose them, but I wish that sample-library manufacturers would take advantage of the space available on a DVD and provide all of the melodic loops in at least a couple of different keys.
Personally, I love the sounds in this collection and it contains everything you need to build a dark and brooding track with very little effort. However, at the same time this library feels slightly limited by the restrictions on using the melodic loops, given the single key. Of course, with any library of this nature, the loops are also often very recognisable, so my advice would be to use the samples as a basis and add your own unique elements on top. Simon Langford
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Tribal house
Stylistic origins
(especially funky house)
South American and African tribe music
Cultural origins
Late 1980s – early 1990s
Typical instruments
(complete list)
Tribal house is a subgenre of house music which combines traditional house music with world music.[1] It is similar in structure to deep house, but provides elements of ethnic or indigenous musical percussions (typically conga drums or its synthesized derivative).
History[edit]
By the late 1980s house was experiencing a number of fusions from other styles. When the four on the floor pattern was blended with polyrhythms tribal house began.[2]
Tribal house rose to prominence off the releases of Cafe latte labels Tribal Amy, to a lesser extent, Strictly Rhythm Records.[citation needed] The music was a staple in New York's most prominent clubs such as the Sound Factory and Roxy NYC. Tribal America Records' infamy within this subgenre stemmed from their globally popular releases by Danny Tenaglia, Junior Vasquez, Deep Dish, Eric Kupper (aka K-Scope) and Murk amongst others. This popularity led to the formation of a UK sub-label, Tribal United Kingdom. The label also helped launch European artists Farley & Heller, Salt City Orchestra, The Underground Sound Of Lisbon and others who produced in this style.
Stylistic elements[edit]
In many tribal house tracks, it is rare to find a core melody or prolonged synth sound, such as those found in house music and similar electronic music styles. Instead, tribal house tracks rely on sophisticated drum patterns for their rhythm. A track can consist of several different drum sounds.
There is no clear-cut definition of tribal house music, instead tracks are usually classified or perceived as tribal because of their live sound. Tribal house is reminiscent of the ethnic music of various tribes of Africa and South America, and it is not unusual for this music to feature chanting and ululation as a cappellas. Tribal music can be produced with either live (i.e. with real drums and instruments) or digital instrumentation: however, live-produced music of this sort in the purest sense is seen as ethnic, while digital tribal music is called 'tribal house'.
Tribal house is a fusion of various styles of electronic dance music (see Latin house), and can range from uplifting and cheerful to dark and aggressive in mood. It can sometimes distort the boundaries between dark house, which is an offshoot of progressive house, and tech-house, a more techno-driven, 'sharper' house percussion beat, as if mixing intelligent dance music and minimal techno.
Current popularity[edit]
Tribal house is currently the primary genre of dance music played in the Circuit scene,[3] large festival-like dance events held world-wide that can be described as the equivalent of a rave party. While this is the broad term generally used to describe the music played at these events, the actual music played by disc jockeys often will be a wider range of subgenres within house music, but often maintaining a tribal house characteristic in the sound of the tracks chosen. This music first entered the scene in the 1990s through the releases of music labels like Tribal America.[citation needed]
In the early 2000s, tribal house evolved into a very percussive, repetitive hard-edged sound that was frequently described as 'pots and pans' for its supposed similarity to the sound made by banging such cookware together. In the mid-2000s, the sound shifted to incorporate more vocals, perhaps as a reaction to the extremity of the 'pots and pans' sound. Presently, tribal house remixes played by DJs frequently are the 'dub' versions, remixes that use only minimal vocals from the original track, with the music often in a minor key to keep it sounding edgier and more tribal, unlike the major key that a more mainstream club remix might use.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
^Price, Emmett George (2010). 'House music'. Encyclopedia of African American Music. 3. ABC-CLIO. p. 406. ISBN0313341990. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^Bogdanov, Vladimir (2001). All music guide to electronica: the definitive guide to electronic music. Backbeat Books. p. xiv. ISBN0879306289. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^Doug Rule (28 March 2013). 'Cherry Blossoms: The Cherry Fund's annual party returns next weekend for more tribal beats'. Metro Weekly magazine. Jansi. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
External links[edit]
Tribal House Sound Example Peace Divison [sic] - Wherever The Drums Take Me (Original Mix) on SoundCloud (TRIBALKINGDOM)
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