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Your music's loud and proud, but your bandmates are off getting their eyebrows pierced every time you want to jam. This 4 GB DVD caters to all that's raucous an often heard emanaating from trashed pool parties across middle-class Southern Cali. Presented in WAV/REX/Apple Loop format, the 42 key-referenced construction kits serve up 1056 unique loops and hits from 81 to 254 bpm, mostly falling around 140 to 170 ticks. You get a full mix, plus all of th elements broken out by verse, chorus, bridge, breakdown and endings. Each kit also contains a Drum Tracks folder with individual elements of the drum loop.

Leaning much more toward the commercial punk and signed-indie-rock scenes than the noisy underground, these raw and hard-hitting tracks lead the charge with truly awesome playing (drummer Jon Mattox is destructibe), experienced arrangement and an ear for catchy hooks from guitarist/bassist/producer Dan Diaz. This high-energy drum grooves and bass lines are superbly tight. Though rhythm and lead guitar set a solid foundation for each kit, plenty of melodic space is left for building around the general theme. Everything's left nice and dry. The guitar tones are pretty much the same from beginning to end, but some creative EQ and processing fixes that. In fact, well-recorded material like this is great for brushing up your mixing skills if you aspire to be (or produce) the next Green Day, Blink-182 or sum 41.

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