Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters

Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs.
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Xelon Digital Blocks 002 Halfbeat

WE Music Unlimited (WEMU) proudly releases Ambientronic's BLOCKS series, a range of highly focused, genre based, high quality professional production packs featuring all the SFX, Samples and Loops you need to create your very own electronic music. Ambientronic does the reverse engineering, picking the best from their own work across a range of genres, and packaging them up for you to use in your own productions. Blocks 002 - Halfbeat contains 33 HD WAV audio files of drum samples, musical loops and effects with a slower 112 BPM. Inspired by artists like Flume, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins and ODESZA, Blocks 002 - Halfbeat contains the sounds created with different techniques, mixed well together.
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Polyverse Music Comet

Comet is designed to create beautiful trails of sound. It does not aspire to model the physics of a room. Instead, it captures the essence of a beautiful reverb. Once you hear it, you’ll fall in love.
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Kryptic Samples Vaportrap Vol.1

'Vaportrap' by Kryptic Samples is a moony and spruce Vaporwave X Trap sample collection. This pack is inspired by pioneer producers such as Daniel Lopatin, Ramona Xavier and James Ferraro. Processed with the utmost care to deliver heavenly authentic 80s- & 90s-VHS nostalgic effects but with entwined with modern Trap elements.
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Toontrack Action! EZX

The Action EZX presents a fusion of orchestral percussion, sound effects, custom foley and classic drum machine sounds, designed for use in any creative context where beat, groove and tone are allowed to transcend the traditional confines. In addition to classic orchestral instruments like timpani, tamtam and timbale, it also captures one-of-a-kind foley, risers, claps, snaps, drops and layered textures of sound never before heard – all intuitively blended, mixed, matched and saturated with various effects in creative hybrid kits. All in all, in excess of 450 individual percussive sounds are presented and used in the more than 21 mix-ready kit configurations included.
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