EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

A thankyou to Eric Persing for the fabulous and well worth waiting for
Backbeats.
Incredible stuff. It's not often that I can sit back and listen to a
glorious drum kit being wonderfully played just for the sheer listening
pleasure.  The fact that I can then use this talent in my own productions is
a remarkable opportunity and well worth the pittance that is charged.
Please then entertain an observation of mine.
There now exists a vast array of drum sample/loop libraries......most of
which I own.
There is still an area that is badly lacking.
Contemporary  grooves played by a real person on a real drum kit.
I wish someone would listen to the radio and construct a CD of contemporary
rock/pop/funk/R+B grooves played with feel on a kit recorded, preferably, by
Eric Persing.
You're probably thinking that there's a heap of that stuff around. Well
there isn't. There's a ton of dance oriented stuff..........the new batch
like Abstract Hip Hop, Total Funk, Nu Groove and all the old Vinylistics
stuff but a lot of that stuff is made by producers who have there own
particular style and they all lean toward the dance genre.
I don't hear that stuff on the radio ( mainstream radio here in Australia
anyway ) It's "cool and groovy" but I don't hear it on the radio.
Let me be more specific. I'm not black and I work mainly with non black
artists. Their record companies don't want black R+B production because that
is  already well catered for by all the wonderful black R+B artists and
producers out there.
Please give us some contemporary grooves played with feel on a well recorded
kit that can be used with white male and female artists playing radio
oriented material. Then we can go ahead and put some sub loops underneath
with the plethora of existing libraries.
Take a listen to Dido, Bjerk , Fiona Apple, Nelly Furtado, Natalie Imbruglia
to name a few. Yes I know that these records are full of programmed samples
but what I'm suggesting is a CD of these types of grooves played by a real
drummer and recorded with the same sonic sensibilities as "Backbeats".
It's a selfish request but it would be so cool.......and it would save me a
lot of money spent recording drums in other peoples studios.
Phil Buckle.