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Sound Nation has announced the launch of Prime Beats, a brand new music agency and download store selling cutting-edge chart and radio-ready urban and dance instrumental beats.

Introduced and endorsed by world class MC & producer JME, the store allows users to effortlessly browse and buy from a selection of the freshest beats and instrumentals, created by some of the world’s greatest beat making talent responsible for hits by artists such as Snoop Dogg, Waka Flocka Flame, Rick Ross, D12, Method Man and many more…

All beats available are radio-ready and will be downloadable from the website – with or without vocal hooks/chorus. Customers who purchase these beats will then be able to record their own vocals over the beats. There are three main license options on offer that range from limited commercial rights to exclusive licenses, catering for all your production requirements.

The catalogue has been hand-picked by a talented team of musicians, producers and music industry professionals, passionate about creativity and constantly on the look-out for new talent.

Prime Beats provide a ready-made arsenal of full-length instrumental for Rappers, Singers, MC’s , Record Labels, Management Companies, Producers, Directors, Synch Agencies and Broadcasting companies to use for any purpose, but don’t take our word for it, check the site now.

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Loops Lab has announced Urban Acoustic Guitar, a collection a acoustic guitar loops for urban music production.

Riffs and chord construction are the foundation for most top 40 charts. If you are looking for melodic acoustic guitar loops to arouse your imagination, these loops played live by talented guitarist Nikola Jimmie Petrovski will do the trick.

Included in the pack is strum/chords & single note guitar loops recorded and processed with Hi-End studio hardware. EQ & Dynamic ready, these tape saturated warm guitar loops will fit unbeatable in your DAW.

Urban Acoustic Guitar features

• 25 Samples/Loops.
• 48Khz/24-bit WAV, AIFF and REX2 formats included.
• Tempo: 89-125 BPM.
• Total size: 190 MB (uncompressed).
• Professionally mixed and mastered.
• **Tape saturated.

The sample pack costs $21.99 USD / 14.99 EUR.

More information: Loops Lab / Urban Acoustic Guitar

Producer Loops has announced Urban Minimal Vol 1, a sample pack by Simon Rudd.

‘Urban Minimal Vol 1′ kicks off a brand new series of diverse Construction Kits created and produced exclusively for Producer Loops by Simon Rudd of “The Fliptones”. This awesome pack contains five hot Urban jams and a wide range of contemporary influences. This versatile loop set also includes MIDI and one-shot samples and comes in a variety of formats.

This pack brings together elements of Urban/Hip Hop music with the cutting-edge sounds of Dubstep, Dance and Minimal electronic styles to create a unique stripped-back vibe perfect for adding vocals and additional layering.

Sparse synths, reese basslines and powerful drum loops give ‘Urban Minimal Vol 1′ great cross genre appeal and will make this a versatile addition to your library of Producer Loops products.

Urban Minimal Vol 1 is available to purchase for £19.95 GPB.

More information: Producer Loops / Urban Minimal Vol 1

Arturia has announced the availability of Hip Hop Essentials, the latest Expansion Pack for its highly-creative SPARK Creative Drum Machine hybrid hardware/software beat production centre.

Hip Hop Essentials adds 30 hip hop kits to Arturia’s acclaimed SPARK Creative Drum Machine. Carefully crafted by LA- based producer and hip hop whizz Rick Stone, these deliver everything urban artists and producers need to take their tracks to the next level of genre-defining creativity — from classic rap anthems through to the most recent dance styles and beyond into rough and edgy alternative hip hop territory. Having produced, remixed, or designed sounds for artists as diverse as Ice Cube, Snoop, Dr Dre, Lil Wayne, Whitney Houston, and Lil Kim, as well as working with Deathrow Records and Motown, Stone should know a thing or two about creative stylistic shifts — and creating hits with the finest urban beats.

Hip Hop Essentials sees Stone cooking up an astonishing array of ear-watering musical flavours with raw and effected kicks, snares, claps, hats, FX, percussion, and chords — all served up on a sizzling sequenced platter of 960 construction patterns. Here Stone laces up sequences like no other, building on contemporary trends to allow users to quickly create music, yet bring their own ideas to the mix.

Of course every beat and sound can be twisted and tweaked, thanks to the intuitive and creative workflow that is at the very heart of SPARK Creative Drum Machine. Reignite rhythmic creativity with Hip Hop Essentials… and get your groove on!

The Hip Hop Essentials library for SPARK (version 1.5 or higher) is available to purchase for 29 EUR/$29 USD.

More information: Arturia / Hip Hop Essentials

Time+Space has announced the release of Urban Definition, a deluxe collection of the hottest R&B and Hip Hop sounds by Zero-G.

From the makers of the best-selling Urban Ammunition, Urban Definition is packed with live instruments, synths and FX for Hip Hop, R&B, Gangsta Rap, Modern Pop, Urban Dance and more.

Think Kanye West, Timbaland, Dr Dre and Will.i.am and you’ll get a feel for the types of sounds to expect in this massive multiformat collection. Featuring 48 construction kits, Urban Definition is crammed with over 1,050 bass, piano, string, flute, guitar and drum loops, 1,550 single hits and over 50 multi-sampled synth instruments – everything you need to produce your next hit track!

All the samples are recorded in pristine 24bit and mastered to perfection using state of the art production techniques.

Urban Definition features

• 3.1Gb of sounds in each format.
• 3100 Acidized WAV files.
• 3100 AIFF files.
• 700 Stylus Compatible Rex2 files.
• 150 EXS24 Instruments.
• 150 Kontakt Instruments.
• 150 NN-XT Instruments.

Urban Definition is available to purchase on a DVD or download exclusively from Time+Space, priced RRP £69.95 GBP/89.95 EUR/$115.95 USD.

More information: Time+Space

P5Audio has announced Flow’s Urban House, a sample pack featuring a collection of song sets.

Inspired by the hit tracks of Flo Rida, T Pain, Dr. Luke, DJ Frank, David Guetta and others, these loop sets have been released for one reason: to inspire chart topping hits!

These 11 construction loop sets are organized into 5 complete song sets featuring multi-tracked intro, hook, verse and bridge ideas. Three of these song sets even provide a live vocal hook!

Whether you are a producer looking for loops to inspire your custom hit production, or an artist / writer looking for platinum sounding tracks to write and arrange to, these loop sets are guaranteed to inspire endless song ideas!

Flow’s Urban House features

• 11 construction loop sets organized into 5 song sets including hook, verse, intro, bridge and breakdown ideas.
• Over 300 individual loops total.
• Inspired by Flo Rida, T Pain, David Guetta, Dr. Luke, DJ Frank and other mega hit makers.
• Individual loops include multi-track drums, guitars, keyboards, riser / glitch / downshifters / sweep FX, vocals, synths, arps and more.
• All tempos and key signatures are provided.
• Royalty free for all commercial projects.
• Formatted for REX2, Acid Loop WAV 24bit and Apple Loops.
• Over 1.4 GB of content total.

The sample pack is available to purchase for $29.99 USD.

More information: P5Audio / Flow’s Urban House