Sony Laswell Collection Loop Library for Acid

Sony Pictures Digital is proud to unveil the first four loop libraries in Sony's exclusive Bill Laswell Collection. The partnership of Sony Pictures Digital and star producer Bill Laswell constitutes the ideal pairing of technology and music. It's only natural that Laswell supply fuel for the enormous surge of ACID users who are redefining music just as Laswell himself does continuously -- with total disregard for genre boundary restrictions and obsolete conventions in making, listening to, even conceptualizing, modern music and sound. The first four libraries in this series will certainly become the most respected collection of royalty-free samples in the world. Each volume will serve as a complete construction kit, providing endless solutions for producers of rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, world music, and ambient/cinematic music forms.

The Bill Laswell Collection includes three libraries, plus a bonus library only available in the box set -- Covert Diaspora, a 2 CD collection with superior 24-Bit sound -- the first of its kind. Includes booklet with extensive liner notes.

2657 (2034MB) original, royalty-free loops.

Bill Laswell: Volume I False Encryptions
Bill Laswell reveals secret codes from the underground. Break the codes and reformulate this information into new transmissions for broadcast within your own music communication networks. Your new codes will transgress all known music types. The language of Bill Laswell is a musical Esperanto, an amalgam of cultures,… read more subcultures, street cultures. Laswell's treatments of seemingly disparate musical information give equal power to the traditional and the experimental, the conventional and the exotic, the pure form and the strange hybrid. From this emerges a new confluence, a language of music perfectly suited for building original narratives in ACID software. Embracing rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, world music, and cinematic/soundtrack music forms, each volume of the Bill Laswell Series promises to give more meaning to your own personal definition of music.

Bill Laswell: Volume II Undocument
Realizations achieved in Bill Laswell's domain are decontextualized and prepared for release into the world of chaos and chance. These source materials are freely co-opted by end users who incorporate ACID software in their tireless campaigns against conventional music. These are source materials for the creation of modern music. Assimilate them, reprocess them, recombine them -- the original intent of the sounds on this CD-ROM will disintegrate, as new meanings -- your meanings -- emerge intact. Inside the Bill Laswell Collection are hundreds of sonic undocuments made for you to re-document, as you sculpt with Laswell's own digital clay inside the ACID software workspace. Each volume serves as a complete construction kit for producers of rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, world music, and cinematic music forms. Go on the record with the sounds of Bill Laswell.

Bill Laswell: Volume III Letter of Law
Everything is permitted. The basic principals of Bill Laswell's production genius are delivered intact, but those with the most musical intelligence will now redefine their interpretation. Make your own rules and then develop the sonic dominance needed to enforce them. The music of Bill Laswell ignores the rules usually associated with isolated music genres. In fact, Laswell makes his own rules as he generates phenomenal volumes of music spanning rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, world music, cinematic forms, and hybrid constructions that defy easy categorization. The Bill Laswell series of loop libraries are all perfectly balanced construction kits that address these forms in a way that will allow you to create music that is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Bill Laswell: Volume IV Covert Diaspora
Dissemination of five strains of music virus via CD-ROM. There is currently no vaccine available. Develop mutations and upload them -- we believe in your ability to infect and eliminate generic music forms. Retain your anonymity if desired. The music of Bill Laswell is fluid and derivative, assembled from disparate sources and transmitted in ways never dreamed possible before the digital age. We exist in a new world of music shimmering with infinite possibilities. Bill Laswell proliferates his dream of music through hundreds of production assignments that span cultures and continents. In a ceaseless emanation, the diaspora of progressive music terminates in the anarchic music of clubs and streets worldwide. The sounds themselves drift through virtual space in mutations of rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, world music, and cinematic forms. Join the flow on this exclusive, 2-CD, 24-bit edition. read less