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as of 04/27/2024 (Details)
In collaboration with Michael Blair and Sontronics Microphones, Toontrack Music announces the "Twisted Kit EZX by Michael Blair". In October of 1985 Tom Waits released the album Rain Dogs. The album was an instant classic and marked a new sound for him. A rough, dirty neo-blues style with awkward rhythms and hard edges. Part of the band that contributed to that sound was drummer and percussionist Michael Blair. His highly personal instrument set-up which included a mix of regular drums and odd bits and pieces like trashcans, bedroom furniture and rusty bicycle frames fit perfectly with the sound that Waits was looking for. The combination of Michael's timing, expression, and junkyard sounds created a rich and useful range of musical textures to accent Waits' intricate storytelling.Michael Blair also played and toured with Waits on Franks Wild Years, the follow up to Rain Dogs, and later became an integral part of the recordings for Elvis Costello s Spike (1989) and Lou Reed's Magic and Loss (1992). Spike became Costello s most commercially successful and sonically adventurous album to date. Michael also has added his trash-can consciousness to records by the respected producer Hal Willner, in "tribute" albums celebrating the work of composer Kurt Weill, poet Allen Ginsberg, Walt Disney, Charles Mingus and in collaboration with avant-theatre director Robert Wilson.So, two rototom frames form a tonal hi-hat, a duck call suggests an alternative cowbell, tack drums from China become rack toms and putting the hubcap of your very first car on top of your snare seems like the right thing to do. Michael Blair crosses over boundaries of industrial, blues, ethnic, orchestral, and replacement percussion to form a unique sound. The Twisted Kit EZX brings you that sound both in the recordings and the MIDI recorded by Michael.The Twisted Kit EZX by Michael Blair was sampled through the very best of outboard with distortion, reverb, compression and attac
Technical Details
- Requires a working EZdrummer or Superior Drummer 2.0 installation
- 1.2GB of non-traditional and traditional drum samples created by Michael Blair (Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello)Instruments used:Kick:Gretsch 1987 Maple DryGretsch 1987 Maple Hard MalletGretsch 1987 Maple Soft MalletGretsch 1987 Maple with GongGretsch 1987 Maple with CrasherGretsch 1987 Maple Dry with SplashLudwig 1965 Super ClassicLudwig 1965 Super Classic with metal potChinese DrumTaos DrumSnare:Pearl with Small RotoPearl with Small Roto2Pearl AmbientButcher Block DeepButcher Block HubcapB