Loopmasters are proud to present Conscious Hip Hop by DJ Trax! This collection merges golden era vibes with deep, textural production to bring one of the finest royalty free care packages of instantly inspirational hip-hop samples.

DJ Trax started Drumming at 7, DJing at 12 and at 15 he formed the hip hop group Mixrace with two MC`s (Dev Paradox + Leke Aerosoul). Trax released his first track a year later (1991) on Brain Records alongside DJ Raw. In the same year Trax and Dev signed to Moving shadow. Over the next 3 years he released Solo 12"s on Shadow under DJ Trax and Joint releases under Mixrace.

Trax has since released on Outsider Music, Ocyris, Paradox Music, AKO Beatz, Omni Music, Skeleton, Transmute, Mole, Tempo, Next Phase, Repertoire, OSR, Subvert Central, Subtle Audio, Crisis, Misspent Music, Scientific, Syncopathic Recordings and his own label Audio Buffet. Over the years as well as Paradox, Trax has collaborated with Naibu, Ricky Force, Nucleus, DSP, Macc, Infest,Cryogenics, KJ Sawka, Becki Biggins + Enjoy.

Alongside these releases he has also written music for many TV/Multimedia projects and scored for the feature film Shifty. He also has a bi-weekly radio show with Nucleus called 'Catch a Groove' He has DJ`d in many cities across Europe and run nights throughout this time.

Conscious Hip Hop contains over 650MB of content that reflects Trax’s deep interest in this style of hip-hop. With warm keys and sax, bass, guitar and trumpet parts that sound authentic, as if you were digging, deep in the crates. Naturally the drums + Percussion are on point and hugely foundational, with a selection of straighter breaks and some with that classic head nodding swing.

About the pack, DJ Trax has said:

Hip Hop has always been my first love. Back in 84, I was part of a BBoy called The Electro Breakers. As well as breaking, I was also influenced by Scratch DJ`s like Cash Money, Jazzy Jeff + DJ Cheese. I wanted to learn every scratch they could do and practiced for hours.

I have been collecting records since I was 11 and have large Hip Hop and Funk collection. I originally started out as a drummer and so learning about where the breaks came from always interested me. Although I love lots of different styles of Hip Hop, I have always been drawn to the deeper side with conscious lyrics.

Loops included play at tempos between 88-106bpm, you can expect this collection to work well in all your hip hop creations!

In detail, expect to find 667 MB of content, with all audio recorded at 24Bit 44.1KHZ. There are 6 Drum Loops, 45 Keys Loops, 27 Top Drum Loops, 24 Guitar Loops, 22 Scratch Loops, 21 Acoustic Bass Loops, 15 Electric Bass Loops, 15 Synth Bass Loops, 14 Horn Loops, 10 Percussion Loops, 10 Synth Loops, 4 Flute Loops, 2 Hat Loops, 2 Kalimba Loops and 1 Vocal Loop. One-shots included are 114 Drum Hits, 32 Inst Hits, 5 Bass Hits, 5 Percs, 1 Fx and 24 Instrument Phrases. Also included are 30 Soft Sampler Patches for Kontakt, EXS24/Sampler, NNXT and SFZ.

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