E-MU Classic Series Vol. 6
World Percussion/Ensembles

E-MU - Classic Series Vol. 06 - World Percussion-Ensembles

If Volume 5 was your passport to global plucked strings and wind instruments, Volume 6 is your formal invitation to a deeply eclectic, geographically confused drum circle. This sample CD takes all the rhythmic elements you’d normally hear in a heavily incense-scented crystal shop and packages them perfectly for 90s electronic music production.

The Global Drum Circle: Latin percussion and African drums. Whether you’re trying to build a dense, cinematic polyrhythm or just need a solitary conga slap to finish your 1997 trip-hop masterpiece, the foundation is here.

Maximum Zen: Tibetan bowls and the mighty kalimba. Essential tools for aggressively realigning your listeners’ chakras or scoring a very dramatic massage therapy session.

The 90s Pop Secret Weapon: Indian ensembles. Because for a solid decade, throwing a tabla loop under a pop vocal was the industry’s favorite way to make a track sound “deep” and “mysterious.”

Paranormal Activity: The “Spirit Catcher.” We are entirely unsure of what this actually sounds like, but triggering it via MIDI feels like a massive metaphysical liability. Proceed with caution.

Ready to be digested by the grinding, loud SCSI drives of your E4 Ultras, EOS, and ESI samplers. There is something profoundly ironic about loading the sacred, ancient resonance of a Tibetan singing bowl into a beige box of archaic 90s circuitry, but we aren’t here to judge.

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01. Bronze Gamelan
02. Tibetan Bowls
03. Japanese Bowls
04. Kye Waing/Djembe
05. Asian Cymbals
06. Crotales
07. Latin Shakers
08. Latin Drums&Rain
09. Conga Battery
10. Timbale Battery
11. African Perc
12. African Drums
13. Killer Kalimba
14. World O’ Kalimba
15. Deff Bendir &Req
16. Spirit Catcher
17. Jews Harp&Spoons
18. World Percussion
19. Indian Ensemble
20. The Andes
21. American Natives
22. World Assortment