Balkan Lines

Balkan Lines
Wild, Festive, Pounding, Hypnotic Balkan Intensity!!!
 

Background
Balkan Lines combines a touch of pure Balkan traditions (Gypsy, Turkish, Serbian, Greek, Romanian, Slavic and other Southeastern European influence) with contemporary and progressive rhythms from Dance, Club, RnB and Marching Band.
 

Balkan grooves are in High-Demand across the pro audio terrain and can be heard in countless blockbuster scores. Now getting easy access to these styles for blending in a comprehensive hi-fi solution is no problem for all. No additional passport needed! A ton of variation for the authentic Balkan experience or even just a shade is available to your productions.

Featuring
Balkan Lines is specialized production made in close cooperation with:
• Süperstar Orkestar - celebrated Balkan brass band
• Aref Shakouri - Violinist extraordinaire

Tonal Atlas
Thousands of grooves and phrases are included with some of the most complex acoustic / synthetic rhythmic blending to date. The stylings include a diverse assortment from Reggaeton to House / RnB Hip Hop as well as traditional Pop influence.

The mix-lines deliver an inspiring overview and supply an immersive brainwave of the beats inner drive. The drum parts without the back-lines are punchy and groovy enough to get any listener to bounce in their seats. And the high quality acoustic instrumentals and synthetic samples can be applied and used in endless project formats.

Balkan Lines also features high quality samples and phrases of:
• Accordion
• Acoustic and Electric Guitar
• Bouzouki
• Oud
• Kanun
• Darbucka
• Organs
• Gypsy style Vocals and Claps
• Traditional Keyboard solo Licks
• Synth Leads and FX
• Power Bass lines
• Scratch Noises
• Rap and Spoken words

Ready 2 Fuse
Balkan lines is powered by the ultimate and easy going Elastik engine which contributes all the flexibilities for usage within professional DAW environment and also works on it´s own. All sounds are ready to use and browse from the start.

Produced by: A-tee (Oriental RnB)

Ali Tatar (A-tee) is also the man behind Ueberschalls stunning Oriental RnB. He has been producing music for companies such as Sony music and Virgin records. With years of experience in the business as a successful producer and with his unique multi-cultural taste of modern music, he has featured various artists of various styles since the late 80’s. A-tee started off his carrier in San Jose California and is now based in Sweden as the directory manager and main producer for “Sound Factory productions Sweden” in the city of Vasteras.

3.6 GB Balkan Lines, 1070 Loops and Samples
Elastik Soundbank for Mac/PC/AU/VST/RTAS
Elastik Player included - no sampler required!

Balkan Lines
1,070 loops and the ever-present Elastik Loop player ensure that this sample DVD can add the little something that your tune has been lacking

Balkan Lines

Future Musicmagazine, 10/2008
www.futuremusic.co.uk

Once again Ueberschall let you go wild, this time in the Balkans. Compiled in co-operation with one of the great Balkan Brass bands – Superstar Orkestar – this 3.6GB collection includes various brass and woodwinds lines along with Bouzouki, Oud, Darbucka, acoustic and electric guitars with some Gypsy style vocals/clapping. These can easily be slipped into House, RnB or indeed Hip Hop tracks with no fuss at all.

1,070 loops and the ever-present Elastik Loop player ensure that this sample DVD can add the little something that your tune has been lacking, or send you off into uncharted areas!

Rating: 8/10

Balkan Lines
1.070 Loops und der omnipräsente Elastik Loop Player garantieren dafür, dass diese Sample DVD das gewisse etwas zu jeder Produktion beisteuert

Balkan Lines

Future Musicmagazine, 10/2008
www.futuremusic.co.uk

Einmal mehr bringt Ueberschall den Wild-Style auf DVD, diesmal aus dem Balkan. In Zusammenarbeit mit einer der größten Balkan Brass Bands - Superstar Orkestar - kommt diese 3.6 GB große Library mit verschiedenen Instrumente wie div. Brasses und Holzbläser Loops, mit Bouzouki, Oud, Darbucka, akustik und elektrischen Gitarren und mit Gypsy Style vocals/clapping. Perfekt und einfach einsetzbar in jeder House, RnB oder sogar Hip Hop Produktion.

1.070 Loops und der omnipräsente Elastik Loop Player garantieren dafür, dass diese Sample DVD das gewisse etwas zu jeder Produktion beisteuert - oder in uncharted Areas schickt.

Rating: 8/10

Übersetzet von Wenzel Mehnert / Ueberschall

Balkan Lines
While we admit that we’d never heard of the Superstar Orkestar or Aref Shakouri, their brass and violin playing is spot on, and the production on the disc is top-notch throughout.

Until we tried Ueberschall’s latest, the closest the Computer Music staff had come to experiencing Eastern European culture was an all-night session on GTA IV. Balkan Lines takes traditional Eastern European influences, and mixes them with contemporary dance sounds to create interesting musical fusions. While we admit that we’d never heard of the Superstar Orkestar or Aref Shakouri, their brass and violin playing is spot on, and the production on the disc is top-notch throughout.

Even if you’re not particularly fond of raved-up European folk music, there are some great sounds in this library that would work in a variety of contexts. As always with these Ueberschall libraries, we think it’s a bit of a missed opportunity that you can’t extract all the content to WAV in one go (you’ve got to audition and sequence them using the included Elastik Player), but if that doesn’t bother you, then Balkan Lines makes for an unusual and interesting diversion.

Rating: 9/10

Balkan Lines
Obwohl wir zugeben müssen noch nie von dem „Superstar Orkestar“ oder „Aref Shakouri“ gehört zu haben, die Spielweise der beiden ist Superb und die Qualität der gesamten Library durch und durch Top-Of-The-Notch.

Balkan Lines

Computer Music, 25-07-08
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/

Bisher war der einzige Kontakt den die Computer Music Redaktion zu ost-europäischer Musik hatte eine all-night Session mit GTA IV. Balkan Lines verbindet traditionelle ost-europäische Musik mit moderner Tanzmusik und erzeugt somit eine interessante und neue Mischung. Obwohl wir zugeben müssen noch nie von dem „Superstar Orkestar“ oder „Aref Shakouri“ gehört zu haben, die Spielweise der beiden ist Superb und die Qualität der gesamten Library durch und durch Top-Of-The-Notch.

Selbst wenn sie nicht umbedingt auf aufgeraveten European-Folk stehen, hier ist einiges and gutem Material zu finden das in einem weiten Context einsetzbar ist. Wie immer kommt diese Library mit dem Elastik Player mit dem man den Content benutzen muss. Aber wenn einen das nicht stört kann man mit Balkan Lines eine interessante und unorthodoxe Library sein eigen nennen.

Rating: 9/10

Übersetzt von Wenzel Mehnert / Ueberschall