Electro Magnetic Pulse | Remix Magazine

At a glance: Insanely creative, original sounding breakbeat and percussion build elements. Three-CD audio, WAV, REX set.

Having to pry myself away from my DAW and this collection to write this review, I can attest that Big Fish Audio has one severely devastating-sounding library on its hands with Electro Magnetic Pusle. With top-notch sound design and wide, punchy production by Perry Geyer and Pirahna, EMP packs some of the freshest, hardest, most menacing-sounding beats and effects that I've heard onto a three-disc audio, WAV and REX set. Geared toward hard electro, big beat, nu-skool and mad house, the material is almost uniformly four-on-the-floor, rarely with any heavy swings or funk patterns to take away from your flow. The breaks are arranged into 79 thematic families of four-bar loops that evolve into three or four complementing four-bar variations, often with break-downs and builds. Loops are skippy, glitchy, stuttery, flanged, phased, distorted, vocoded, swirled, erratically auto-panned, tweazy, nasal, mechanical, sci-fi, industrial, tiny, enormous - you get the picture. Tempos range from 68 to 146 bpm, with the vast majority sitting around the 110 to 130 bpm comfort zone. I could so many familiar, tasty elements of acts that I love, it made me feel like I was raiding the sound lockers of Beastie Boys, Meat Beat Manifesto, Leftfield, Groove Armada, the Crystal Method, Nine Inch Nails and the like.