Check out our top packs for creating your best hip-hop, drum & bass tunes, or any other genre as we take in the premier breakbeats, drum recordings and lo-fi crate-dug entries in the Loopmasters catalogue. Most of these sample packs are also available to download, audition as entire packs or just single samples using our Loopcloud software.
Strictly Breaks
Bass Boutique // 409 Samples // £34.95
From the soiled minds of Bass Boutique and the stinking petri dish that is us at Loopmasters, we present Strictly Breaks, a collection of hundreds of dirty drum loops from a huge variety of sources. 808 Loops, full drum kits, individual snares and hats, and then there's basslines, FX, vocal loops and loads more. The total weight of 2.24GB might show you how versatile production can be with this collection.
Sure, this pack is stuffed with great samples, but when you check out how they work together, it gets even clearer why producers swear by this pack. As well as the full drum loops and individual drums, you get sub-less drum loop variations, 6 full song stem files (with 36 stems going into them)m sampler patches and loads more. OK, it's not "Strictly Breaks", but it's a whole musical toolkit for crafting them in your chosen style.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
ISR Live Breaks Bundle
Industrial Stength // 1000+ Samples // £30.45
This collection from Industrial Strength might be on the expensive side, but considering what you get, the price of this megapack is great value for money. You get a whole 12 of IS's vintage drum packs, almost all of which have been rated on average five stars by Loopmasters users, for a fraction of the individual prices – 80% off, actually.
Taking in the talents of Vintage Breaks 1, Swiss Chris Breakbeats, Dub Hop (see Below), Modern Funk, Brooklyn Breaks and loads more, this one will give you those classic, dusty-sounding drums, ready to twist into something that's uniquely yours.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Twisted Breaks
LP24 Audio // 902 Samples // £24.95
You don’t just get 277 looped drum performances in LP24’s pack, Twisted Breaks also gives you 625 one-shots to resequence and create your own – from old-school and new-school drum sound sources alike.
The vein of modern and vintage runs through the whole pack, in fact. At tempos between 64 and 89 (yes, you’ll have to crank them up for that excellent flavour), this pack is replete with both dusty, cracky vibes to give your tracks some heart, and the necessary new-school production polish to bring the power and the weight. With Twisted Breaks, the choice is yours.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Boom Bap Breaks
Sonic Mechanics // 145 Samples // £14.95
At a cool £14.95, this pack gives you instant gratification for your old-school vibey needs, with 145 drum loops split into WAV, Apple Loops and RX2 formats. There are also some single hits available in this one, but that’s not what this pack does best…
The real talent of Boom Bap Breaks is its simplicity, giving you exactly what you need to drop a quick, retro vibe into any track to give it the feeling of hearty, warm, analogue-sampled beats. All 145 loops are eminently tunable, and will feel at home in both LoFi, hip-hop and processed drum & bass.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Deekline And Ed Solo Booty Breaks
Loopmasters // 622 Samples // £24.95
Ed Solo and Deekline are together again in this show-stopping combination of phat breaks and other musical elements meant to drive your listeners home – hard. Throughout this collection of more than 600 samples, the two skilled producers take you on a tour de force of everything that’s powerful about modern processed breaks, and a whole lot more.
Alongside those 90 breaks and 246 individual one-shot drum samples, you’ll find basslines, music loops, 808 bass tones, subs, FX, synths and plenty more. The pack’s available in standard WAV format, plus EXS-24, SFZ, Kontakt, HALion and NN-XT, so you have very few excuses not to use it!
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Balkan Brass & Breakbeats
Push Button Bang // 650 Samples // £ 14.95
The folks at Push Button Bang mix breaks with – of all things – brass, making a characterful combination that’ll make you stand out from the crowd. The meat of the pack is the 60 breaks, played from 90 to 160 BPM, a perfect for as many genres as you care to try them out in. If you’re looking for a great pack of humanity-filled performances, this is a no-brainer.
There’s plenty of analogue-style retro circuit warmth demonstrated throughout, with the 650 samples played live, including loads of attention-seeking alto sax loops, and some interesting mixed instrument setups too.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Big Beat Drums
Delectable Records // 353 Samples // £19.95
It’s a mix-and-match deal with Big Beat Drums. Delectable Records have strung together 29 sets of drums and divvied them up into full recordings, just hats, snare, tops and kicks, so you can reinforce, run samples in parallel, or add just a certain part to other breaks to beef your existing loops up a touch.
Delectable say that this is one for the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and Apollo 440 fans out there, with the humanity you’ll need to keep your listeners interested all through the long, sweaty night. With all the analogue gear involved in the production of this pack, the DJ should appreciate this pack as much as the dancefloor does.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Atmospheric Vinyl Breaks
Loopmasters // 315 Samples // £17.95
From breaks producer Chemo comes this pack of 30 old-school breaks from synthesized and live-played sources, with both the full mixes and the individual tracks to piece them all together or layer with other samples. Variety is the spice of this pack, which takes in shuffling grooves, mood beats and all sorts else.
Gone are the days of crate digging – all the requisite parts of this pack have been beefed up with retro-style analogue treatment to give you that sought-after vibe with no muss, no fuss. Throw in the added Atmos, bass hits and FX samples, plus 35 drum kits for the major sample formats, and you’ve got some gravy in here too.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Off The Grid - Hip Hop & Trap
Sonic Mechanics // 460 Samples // £29.95
You want reality? This pack has it in spades, taking pride in its abstenance from hitting that Quantize button. Not only is Off The Grid a great source of beats and breaks to begin with – it’s also a pack to plunder for Groove Templates in your DAW, capturing the feeling of these experly-timed beats for use with other instrument parts.
Across 1.4GB, you’ll find 155 loops including music stems, full drums and construction kits. There’s also unquantized synth and bass material here, with the composite hits being available to mess with and recombine into any new pattern you like. As well as the main pack of WAVs, you also get sampler patches for NN-XT, HALion, Kontakt, EXS-24 and SFZ formats, plus a cool ten Serum presets. Nice.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Reel People Broken Beat, Nu Jazz And Soul Vol5
Loopmasters // 620 Samples // £24.95
You don’t just get funky breaks here – you get hooks to help inspire your tunes with more original momentum. With this pack’s funk and soul tinge, it’s not just drums that are in the bargain, it’s also bass loops, synth loops, acoustic guitar loops, electric guitar loops, keys one-shots and much, much more. Those all-important drums, though, do number 97, with percussion taking up 45 files.
If you’re looking for some classic vibe and soul, and the flavour of some other instruments to layer into your tunes, this is one worth deeply considering… or at least feeling out.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Baker Brothers Funk Session Vol. 1
Monster Sounds // 620 Samples // £39.95
After your successful live career’s been going for a while, what do you add to the mix next? If you’re the Baker Brothers, it’s sample packery! In Funk Sessions Vol 1, we get an intimate look into the recorded chops of the Baker Brothers ensemble, which you can scrutinise to the sample level, should you see fit. Otherwise, you can just cram these funky, groove-infested samples straight into tracks in a variety of genres.
You get 579 loops between 96 and 130bpm, consisting of beats, basslines, electric piano loops, percussion, guitar licks, sax loops and plenty more. You also get to mess with single-hit drum samples to craft something to your own specifications, if that’s your bag.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Dub Hop
Industrial Strength // 439 Samples // £17.95
Also available in the ISR Live Breaks Bundle alongside plenty other Industrial Strength titles, this pack is worth highlighting for its style. The sub, urban, broken beats and hip-hop tinged collection wings through Basslines and FX hits (horns, strings, vocal duts, dubs and more) before coming around the the spotlit drums collection.
Said collection is a finely honed group of vintage, crusty, vibe-infused breaks that would feel at home in a variety of genres thanks to the crate-dug feel and the skillful playing, curation and editing.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Dirty Breaks
Frontline Producer // 479 Samples // £17.95
This filthy pack of drum loops was crafted using pristine analogue equipment, although it the mics and preamps were probably a little shellshocked after being subjected to the smutty 765MB of content you’ll find here: Roughly 300 drum grooves at various tempos, plus one-shot hats, claps, cymbals, kick, snare and all the rest to get you going.
This is one for fans of just drums – forget the music loops and bassline, and get straight to the groove. Dirty Breaks also contains sampler patches for NN-XT, HALion, SFZ, Kontakt and EXS-24.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Deekline & Ed Solo Presents the Sound of Hotcakes
Bass Boutique // 263 Samples // £34.95
No, not a sample library from a well-patronised patisserie, but a taste of what Ed Solo’s record label has to offer in terms of sonic quality. This one’s got 133 drum beats, sure, but it’s also injected with a creamy centre of percussive grooves, 52 basslines, 18 vocals, plus 37 synth hits to put the icing on your track wherever you see fit.
This little sampler comes in a bunch of formats and breakdowns, including just drums, with WAV, Apple Loops, Ableton Live Pack, Sampler Patches and Reason Refill formats available. Pay for what you need, or get everything for one price.
You can find these breaks to audition with your tracks and buy individually on Loopcloud as well as here on Loopmasters.
Undercover - Found Percussion Samples
Mode Audio // 263 Samples // £14.95
Put a little pause into your break expectations with this sample library full of DIY sampled percussion sounds – 230 of them to be precise. Inside you’ll find snaps, hats, thuds, cracks, taps, scrapes and more that can be used as percussive sounds for some experimental kit-building experiences.
How to play them? If you’re not into using WAV samples on their own, this pack also gives you Ableton, Logic and Reason versions, pre-packaged and ready to play from those DAWs’ in-built samplers.
This one’s not available on Loopcloud, but you can grab the entire pack from us here.
