‘Minimal Drum + Bass 2′ weighs in at 800MB and includes 1000 24 bit samples, including 240 loops at 170Bpm, and 760 One Shot Samples. Also included are 24 ready to play patches for Halion, Kontakt, EXS, SFZ and Reason NNXT compatible Soft samplers. Apple Loops, Reason Refill and Ableton Live versions are also available to purchase separately.

Producers should expect to find 100 Drum Loops, 20 Hat Loops, 20 Percussion Loops, 50 Music Construction Kit Loops, 50 Variation Themed Loops, 40 Fx Loops, plus 720 One Shot Drum Hits which are excellent for programming your own beats and glitch sequences.

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Bop interview with London Elektricity on Hospital Podcast 145 by Med School Music

Bop did a 30 minute mix for the last half hour of Hospital’s monthly Ministry Of Sound radio show on Tuesday. The show showcases material from “The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel” alongside the mix and fresh new cuts from other artists.

You can listen again for a whole month over on the HOSPITAL BROADCAST page.

YouTube.com/MedSchoolMusic

We caught up with Zach Ellams and Timothy O’Leary, the brains behind the operation, for a quick chat about how the video was made (click the images for bigger versions)…

How did you come up with the idea?
Our concept was to create an abstract video of a mouse called Pixel who found himself on a curious adventure. Influenced by Bop’s album and the particular track we were working with, we experimented with a variety of themes and techniques, allowing them to develop into a story of mice versus rats and brain versus brawn.

What materials did you use?
Preferring to experiment with techniques, we made allowance for our combination of media to generate ideas and ‘happy accidents’. After testing to see which of our techniques were most effective, we settled on a combination of stop motion paper puppetry, abstract shape and live action. We felt this unusual combination of mixed media would appear curious to the eye, further linking to Bop’s album title. Our hope was that our video would illustrate the playful way in which we animate.

How did you execute the whole concept?
The video is a combination of live action, stop motion and hand drawn animation. We drew out a basic narrative through a series of storyboards and animatics. Because of our fast paced and energetic style, our narrative continued to evolve throughout the process.

Sum up the video in 5 words?
Paper versus our animated imagination.

If you were a pixel, what amazing adventure would you go on?
We’d be blown up, photocopied, inverted, cut out and animated.

Storyboards:

THE TEST PRESSES HAVE SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN STILL PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW!

The single-disc vinyl long player features 7 tracks from the album:

A1. The Amazing Adventures Of One Curious Pixel
A2. 8-Bit Cosmos
A3. Sunrain
A4. The End Is The Beginning (with Jalex)
B1. Extraterrestrial Creatures Are Stealing You From Me From The Bedroom (feat. Bev Lee Harling)
B2. Intercontinental Meltdown
B3. Subwave – I Need You (Bop Remix)

Strictly limited to one copy per person on a first come first served basis.

“Having showcased regional and international scenes from Cambridge to Tokyo via Budapest, Hospital’s “Future Sound Of” series takes on a whole new dimension; for the first time we take on the giant superpower that is Russia.”

You can grab this awesome compilation everywhere on CD, 2×12″ Vinyl and Digital Download.