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Successful ´Bollywood´ productions such as the West End musical Bombay Dreams and, more recently, the smash hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, have led to an increase in the use of Indian sounds and instruments among music producers of today.
As revealed in the latest of our exclusive online features, the famous film composer A.R. Rahman who created the award winning soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire has strong connections with Time+Space supplier Philtre Labs and used Spectrasonics´ Stylus RMX in the film´s score! Click here to read the feature.
In response to the growing popularity of the Bollywood sound in music and to celebrate our suppliers´ links to the film, we´ve put together the following hot list of sample libraries and virtual instruments to inspire your own tracks!
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Bollywood Grooves
Bollywood Grooves is a premium sample library on DVD-ROM, inspired by the sound of Bollywood, using the same instruments and styles typically featured in films of the genre. Produced by Bollywood composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, Bollywood Grooves will give you that extra edge for your music productions. Instruments include Dhol, Tabla, Dholak, Duff, Ghunghroo-Tabla, Dholak-Tabla.
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Bollywood Elements
Fusing Indian traditional melodic instruments in your contemporary genres of music can give you a palette which is limitless... making your music a class apart.From New age to Hip Hop, Film Music to Jazz, Bollywood Elements can be used in a number of ways to spice up your composition like never before. Instruments include Bulbul Tarang, Sitar, Sarod, Shehnai, Sarangi, Flute, Mandolin, Tumbi, Ravan-hattha, Shankh and NarSingha.
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Stylus RMX Xpanded
Since its release in 2004, Stylus RMX has become one of the most popular and widely-used virtual instruments in the world - offering a quick and easy way to creatively assemble incredible sounding grooves in all the popular host sequencers. As mentioned above, A.R. Rahman used Stylus RMX in the film score for Slumdog Millionaire.
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Ethno World 4
Ethno World 4 contains more than 200 professionally recorded ethnic instruments and more than 14,000 high quality samples in the following categories - bowed instruments, stringed instruments, woodwind and brass, key instruments, bell type instruments, metal type instruments, world drums, world percussion, gongs and bowls, and the new category of voices. With its massive 10 gigabytes of samples, Ethno World is one of the most extensive ethnic sample libraries in the world.
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Oriental RnB
Oriental RnB is the ultimate point where the east and the west intercept on the highest musical and sonic level. This very point is touched by spicy oriental flavour combined with modern dance, pop and RnB tunes. Instruments include: Oud, Tar, Kemance, Santur, Violin, Kanoun, Accordeon, Bouzouki, Ney, Pipes, Darbuka, Duff, Zarb, Rhodes, Piano, Organ, Synth, Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Vocals, Drums & Percussion.
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Indian Dance Classics
Features over 750 loops in 1.7Gb of samples with tempos ranging from 86bpm to 200bpm recorded on location in India. The sample were recorded in pristine 24bit using state of the art recording equipment with performances by top professional players from the Indian music industry.All the major Indian Dance styles are included: Andhranatyam, Bharathanatyam, Dhandiyan, Garba, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Kathak, Odissi, Bhangra, Manipuri, Folk, Goa Dance, Bombay Fusion and Rhythm Vocals.
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World Pack Acid/Wav
The best loops and samples from a wide range of successful world/ethnic products from Zero-G´s back-catalog and programmed into ACIDized WAV format. Almost 9,000 loops and instrument samples from a diverse range of world cultures including Indian, Polynesian, Australian, Spanish, Latin American, Celtic, Middle Eastern, and African. Also, available in Garageband format.
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Vindaloops (Download)
´Vindaloops´ contains hundreds of 1 and 2 bar loops played mainly on Tabla and other Indian and Bhangra percussion. More than 420 loops, breaks and single hits are included, played on Dhol, Dholak, Ghara , Tabla, Chimpta, Taliaan, etc. Also includes Female vocal phrases, shouted Male phrases plus a few single notes on Asian stringed & wind instruments.
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Deepest India (Download)
´Deepest India´ contains original Vocals, Instruments and Orchestras/Ensembles recorded on location in India specially for Zero-G during 1996-7. The library explores every area of human emotion from elation to despair - from hauntingly beautiful vocals, through joyous ensembles to authentic Indian instrumental phrases. The library provides three main categories of samples: Vocals, Instruments, and Orchestras/Ensembles.
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Indian Drum Guru (Download)
´The Indian Drum Guru samplepack from Loopmasters is a selection of awe inspiring live performances by the master of indian Percussions - K.V.BALA KRISHNAN. The performances were captured in India in late 2005, and these are some of the amazing loops and samples that KV has produced for Loopmasters featuring an exhaustive collection of the most widely used Indian Drums and Percussion.
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