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Black Friday Sale Now On!

Black Friday sale now on!! Get 50% off absolutely everything on our online store at www.drum-drops.com. Just use the code HALFOFF at checkout.

Offer ends midnight GMT on 30th November

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Out Now: 70s Session Superstar Kit

The 70s Session Superstar Kit is a beautiful Ludwig Classic, with 10, 12, 13 and 16 inch toms, a 22 inch kick and tightly tuned Maple Birch and Yamaha Custom snares. The skins are all Remo pinstripes on the tops and emperor clears on the bottoms, for that classic Steve Gadd 70s sound. All tuned to perfection and mic'ed up at Livingston Studios using their incredible gear list, including a pair of valve Neumann U67s, plus U87s, D19s, 421s and everything you'd ever expect around a kit designed to deliver that super-smooth, clean and meticulous sound that we all know and love from the likes of Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie, Jim Keltner, Jeff Porcaro, Andy Newmark and other such 70s greats. Tight drums, plenty of reverb and perfectly balanced levels deliver a drum sound worthy of any 70s Session Superstar.

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Neo Soul - Out Now

We’re really proud to announce the release of our brand new loops pack - Neo Soul.

Neo Soul is a collection of 42 loops across 22 tempos of super-contemporary drum grooves taking influence from the founders of Neo Soul, such as Dangelo,  Questlove and Maxwell right up to Chris Dave,  Anderson Paak, Nate Smith and Tom Misch.

We enlisted the incredibly talented drummer George Cook for this pack, he's played for, amongst many others, The Japanese House, Collard and Calum Scott. He has recorded on albums for Eminem, Birdy, Marika Hackman, Jamie N Commons, X Ambassadors, Bruno Major and Rag N Bone Man.

Neo Soul was recorded by Billy Halliday (Frank Ocean, James Blake, Sampha, Duke Dumont)at Miloco's Livingston Studio 2 through their Custom Series 75 by Neve desk using only the finest mics from Neumann, Coles, AKG and AEA. Livingston Studio 2 is the perfect space for this kind of drum sound, with its snappy and tight sounding live spaces and massive array of high-end analogue gear.

The kit, owned by George, is a hybrid comprising Ludwig Vistalite toms and snare with a Yamaha Club Custom 20″ kick, and Zildjian and Paiste hardware (full setup on the product page).

As ever this pack is all fully live and organic, with strictly zero quantising to ensure the feel and groove is fully retained to give your tracks that extra special feel.

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30% Off Store-wide for June

This month we’re offering a massive 30% off absolutely everything across the online store! All you need to do is put the code JUNE30 at checkout. The offer will end at midnight BST on the last day of June. Happy Drumdropping!

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The Northern Soul Kit - Out Now

Keep the faith brothers and sisters, its time for us to present our Northern Soul kit.

Built around a Ludwig Super Classic kit (22in kick, 12x8 and 16x16 toms), featuring multiple snares from Yamaha, Mapex, Gretch and custom shop Meinl cymbals, we recorded this sample pack at London's legendary Livingston Studio 1 with session superstar Steve Taylor.

Utilising Livingston's stellar collection of vintage mics from Neumann, AKG, Coles and AEA into pre-amps from API, Telefunken, GML and Neve this kit will give you the authentic sound to create those signature Northern Soul insistent backbeats and much more.

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New Release: Funky Conga Drops

Funky Conga Drops is a collection of over 50 loops pristinely recorded by some of the finest conga players in the world, produced by the legendary Mike Pelanconi (aka Prince Fatty).

Recorded on location during Mike's road trip from LA to Sao Paulo stopping off in Havana on the way, this pack features some of the finest percussionists the America's have to offer.

With tempos ranging from 75BPM to a conga-melting 169BPM, there are loops for every genre from disco to soul to old school funk to Latin.

We all know the Prince Fatty sound by now. His futuristic take on old school reggae, soul and hip hop versions – served up in a contemporary style that’s uniquely his and full of character – is already well known on the international club and festival circuit. It's music for our times and popular with a wide demographic thanks to a discography drawn from several continents, and that includes diverse talents such as Lily Allen, Hollie Cook, Jovi Rockwell, Fatlip from the Pharcyde, Jamaican stars Big Youth, Gregory Isaacs and Marcia Griffiths, Manu Chao and the hip-hop Godfathers The Last Poets.

A lover of analog techniques and recording live Mike Pelanconi learnt his craft the traditional tape op way as a teenager, this was not to last too long and was soon working with the likes of Rebel MC and the early jungle scene alongside the groovers at Acid Jazz before leaving for Los Angeles and hip-hop label Delicious Vinyl thanks to the Brand New Heavies. In LA the experience of working with the likes of hip hop producer JDilla, singers like Saidah Garret (Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones) and sharing a studio with Rick Rubin proved invaluable experience and learning. “The one thing in common they all had was the love of a good drum sound and a passion for drum breaks, but you had to be fast” On returning to the UK it was Mike's fat drum sound and analog style that got him working with Blur's Graham Coxon for two albums until assuming the mantle of Prince Fatty in 2007, after creating the name for a Stussy project. There would be a run of albums after signing with Mr. Bongo, featuring himself and other artists such as Mungos HiFi, The Skints, Mad Professor, Manu Chao, Mungo's Hi-Fi, classic reggae singer Little Roy, who had a surprise hit with an album of Nirvana covers and international break thru thanks to Breaking Bad using Horseman’s Shimmy Shimmy Ya. Fatty's fond of saying that music has no borders but he has an adventurous spirit himself. Since leaving Brighton he's spent lengthy periods in Los Angeles writing, building a new mix studio in Thailand and recording in Brazil all at the same time. Recent collaborations include mixing the latest Skints album and producing The Role Of Monkey Man album for Delicious Vinyl featuring his latest discovery Brazil’s premier MC Monkey Jhayam.

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All Samples Packs added!

We’ve just added All Samples Packs to 14 of our drum kits!

The All Samples Pack contains the Multi-velocity pack, Single Hits Pack, Drum Replacement pack and as a bonus we also include over a thousand separate mic samples taken from our no longer available Kontakt 5 Pack (Please note we do not include the Drumdrops Kontakt Instrument in this pack). You basically get all three packs for the price of two and some bonus samples. Customers can also make their own patches from the two packs of samples included. Included in this pack are the samples from the old Kontakt 5 pack (separate close, overhead and room mic samples) and the stereo mixed samples found in the Multiple Velocity pack and Single Hits Packs. The 400-odd stereo samples are mixed from the close, overhead and room mics. We have include over 2000 samples from the old Kontakt 5 pack providing up to 24 velocities of each articulation and 3 round robins. These packs are perfect for those who want to purchase all three packs in one hit or those who like to build their own patches from the samples.

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Ludwig Sparkle Indie Kit Out Now!

Here we present Paul Stone's legendary Ludwig Sparkle kit, recorded to the absolute highest standards in one of London's fines drum rooms, The Pool, using the very same collection of vintage mics, and original Neve and Api preamps, Urei compressors and Pultec EQs that Noel Gallagher, Placebo, The Maccabees, Nadine Shah, The Horrors, Bloc Party and loads more!

The samples were taken during the session for the Paul Stone: Indie N Rock album. The kit is a beautiful Ludwig Sparkle, with Supraphonic, Acrolite, Black Beauty and Craviotto Maple snares.