Phat to Phreaky Packs 800 Hip-Hop Grooves

Smart Loops has released Phat to Phreaky, a collection of urban beats, breakdowns and fills. Unlike other Smart Loops titles, which are performed on acoustic instruments, the grooves in Phat to Phreaky come straight from the beatboxes that you hear on today's hottest songs. The CD contains over 800 grooves in a wide array of styles ranging from Hip-Hop beats to old school grooves and even slow jams.

The company enlisted some of Hip-Hop's beatmakers to produce the grooves in Phat to Phreaky. This CD includes beats from Joey P. (TLC, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Fabolous, Jagged Edge), James "DJ Melo" Davies of Underground Productions (Queen Latifah, Marky Mark, LFO, Popstars Eden's Crush), Dale "Rambro" Ramsey (Jay-Z, U.G.K., Ludacris, Justin Timberlake), Michael Nickolas (music for ABC, NBC, CBS and Showtime), Frank Basile (world-class drummer and Pearl Drums Endorsee), Tracey Clarke (Producer with RJAM/Island Records) and Corey Presley (Jagged Edge, Oprah Winfrey).

Smart Loops offers this set of Hip-Hop loops for producers, rappers, remixers, and musicians of all types. While Phat to Phreaky was primarily designed for use in urban music, the loops also work in Rock and Pop songs, layered right in with live drums. Most of the loops are offered in dry, unprocessed form, so users can add plug-ins and customize the grooves to their individual sound.

As a free bonus to registered users of Phat to Phreaky, Smart Loops is providing additional loop variations online. After registering your their of Phat to Phreaky, customers will receive access to even more loops, breakdowns, fills, drops, & variations, as well as other bonuses.

Phat to Phreaky contains ACID-compatible loops, ready for use with Cakewalk's SONAR, Home Studio 2002, Project5, Plasma, Music Creator, and Guitar Tracks Pro products, as well as all Sonic Foundry ACID Programs. Since the files are provided in WAV format, virtually any PC or Macintosh music recording or playback software, such as Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic Audio, Phrazer, Unity, Live, Digital Performer can also use the loops.

Phat to Phreaky has a suggested retail price of $69.