7 -wav-: Boom Bap Labs X Amen Abandoned Vault Vol

If you’re after pristine, 4k-resolution beats, look elsewhere. But if you want your MPC to smell like basement dust and forgotten reel-to-reel magic, Abandoned Vault Vol 7 is essential. Just be ready to spend an hour just listening to the loops before you even chop—because every sound tells a story.

Highlights include “Cracked Marble” (a soul sample that sounds like it’s dissolving in real time) and “Drain Pipe Sermon” (a bass-and-vinyl-rust loop that demands a ghostface verse). The drum one-shots are predictably solid—punchy kicks, slappy snares with actual character—but the real gold is in the texture layers: radio interference, footstep foley, reversed piano tails. Boom Bap Labs x Amen Abandoned Vault Vol 7 -WAV-

★★★★½ (4.5/5)