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The Soul Surplus team traveled back to the legendary “Sound Factory Studios” in Hollywood to craft Hollywood Soul Vol 2, featuring soul and rand;b artists “Million Miles” and Aaron Camper. Legendary soul acts like the Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye have graced this studio and they also inspired the creation and sound of this pack!

The Soul Surplus team had the opportunity to craft this special release at the legendary “Sound Factory Studios” in Hollywood. Everyone from the Jackson 5 to Marvin Gaye, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dolly Parton are just among a few of the iconic artists that have recorded at this studio. It was only right to channel the success from this space with the team and call this release “Hollywood Soul.”

Dive into Heartfelt, 15 melodic soul loops crafted once again by artist, singer-songwriter, and producer Dave James. Full of essential instrument loops like keys, bass, and guitar, this pack also features synth sounds, vocal riffs, and songstarters that can serve as centerpieces to your production. 

Guitarchitecture is a soul-themed sample pack centered around guitar-focused writing and composition. This pack contains 15 original melodic loops full of individual instrument loops, along with bass, FX, keys, and guitar one-shots. From sweeping acoustic movements to punchy electric loops, the textures in this pack are endless and fit for all of your production needs.

Chopped and Screwed is a sample pack installment paying homage to the Hip-Hop sub-genre originating in Houston Texas in the early 90’s, with DJ Screw being a prominent figure in pioneering the sound and spurring the subculture that went with the music. This style of Hip-Hop became known for the way it remixed songs with deejaying and slowed down song tempos. 

Soul Surplus presents Bait and; Switch, a special collection of custom made psychedelic samples. This pack is all about extreme usability with obvious trap and hip hop melodies in easy BPM formats allowing you to cut to the chase and get to work! This pack contains everything from warped tape saturated dancing chimes to screaming synth strings that are asking to be chopped up or dragged into a session.

14 Karat once again brings the soulfulness and quality Soul Surplus has become known in the industry for. With warm guitars and blaring horns, this pack shines as the perfect way to inject analog soul into your productions. This pack features 15 melodic loops, with one-shots and stems. For the solid gold oldies, 14 Karat brings the vibe.  

A multi-genre collection of warbling, lo-fi atmospheres and stacked arrangements, Wavy Guitar embraces a warm nostalgia with references as wide-reaching as shoegaze, surf, ambient, jazz and blues. Chime-like, shimmering single-coil tones comprise the majority of the pack’s palette while ranging from clean to light tube saturation. Performed and produced by Marcel Camargo, this guitar collection serves to take productions into cozier or hazier territory, depending on your persuasion.  

Lush, wordless harmonies comprise this collection by Leza Mi, a duo comprised of singer Jessica Vautor from Martinique and producer Marcel Camargo from Brazil. Drawing from the duo’s Caribbean and Brazilian roots while exploring classical and jazz traditions, a range of minimal and complex vocal stacks weave a tapestry of wordless gems across genres. Leaving plenty of space for creative re-interpretation, Vocal Harmonies w/ Lena Mi is a malleable presentation of the human voice, captured in high fidelity with an AKG414.

Bringing together an eclectic collection of altered and invented string instruments, cellist and bassist Gabe Noel presents us with Uncommon Strings. “During the 2020 lockdown I began experimenting on all my goodwill instruments lying about, tweaking and putting cello/viola strings on everything.” A nylon baritone “chellar,” fretless nylon Mandola, and fretted cello are just a few of the instruments that comprise the pack. Every loops includes a companion bass part, spanning folk, funk and everywhere in between.

Found Sound Nation presents this sample pack of desert blues inspired electric and acoustic guitar performed by Malian virtuoso Garba Touré. Recorded at his studio in Bamako, this pack features Garba’s signature riffs and chord voicings, inspired by traditional West African music and American rock. Garba’s electric trills and jagged melodies on Fender stratocaster and jazzmaster are complemented by gentle acoustic strums and hypnotic grooving.

Exploring the hazy sound palettes of psychedelia and neo soul, BLK DECO’s first sound design collection is steeped equal parts in nostalgia and lo-fi futurism. Designing and layering new patches from scratch and running keys through guitar pedals and amps, BLK DECO weaves a lush tapestry of kaleidoscopic tones for use across genres.

As melodic as it is rhythmic, and as hypnotic as it is spiritual, the nyatiti, a 5000-year old eight-stringed lyre is understood by many as the musical lifeline of the Lüo community, and as one of the most recognizable and influential traditional instruments native to East Africa. For this sample collection Found Sound Nation worked with Rapasa Otieno, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, to capture a wide breadth of intricate sounds from his hometown, including sounds of the nyangile (percussion), gara (bells), obokano (lyre), and ong'eng'o (percussion). 

Movements of the Sea takes us on a sonic adventure in aquatic mysteries. Joyful, sunlit melodies and lush seascapes comprise the collection, featuring nylon string guitar, analog synthesizer, pianet, glockenspiel and shakers. The sample collection was produced and performed by Isik Kural. Born in Istanbul and based in Glasgow, Kural’s songwriting and sound design bring radiance to environmental productions.

Live Hip Hop Drums is a collection of down-tempo grooves between 80 and 100 BPM performed live on drum set and percussion by Charles Van Kirk. The grooves are inspired by Motown’s influence on hip hop and were recorded with a combination of Coles ribbon microphones, Telefunken tube microphones and class A preamps. Each sound is presented with two different versions of processing: one clean and one "crunchy" to mimic a vintage lo-fi sound. Notably, each loop has a corresponding layer of auxiliary percussion composed of shakers, tambourines and drum rims that can be mixed in separately to add texture and motion.