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The best packs of 2023

Cyclick Tracks

The first of our ‘Track Builder’ packs from back in January, Robbie from Cyclick assembled this glorious ensemble of multi-instrumental samples. Here’s what he had to say at the time: “This sample pack is made up of six tempo-based track building construction kits across a handful of genres: funk, synthwave/dreampop, French house and shoegaze. These are, of course, starting points and even the slightest of manglings and mix-ups can take them to a whole new space, or at least a different genre.”

The loops are all two or four bars long, and each instrument provides three loops per kit. For more info on the pack (and all the other packs featured) see the PDFs in the respective folders of each pack.

Groovy Beats and Bass

The second ‘Track Builder’ pack via Groove Criminals is a more rhythmically-focused collection. Over to Oli: “We’ve put together a selection of mix and match drum loops and basslines to quickly assemble the rhythmic

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