BluRay Hip Hop is a lo-fi hip-hop sample and kit expansion from Niche Audio for Native Instruments Maschine. It combines jazz-influenced melodies, vinyl-style hits, saturated drums and ambient FX, with loops and one-shots in a 358 MB pack.
BluRay Hip Hop is aimed at producers who want old-school, chilled hip-hop textures without spending hours digging through records. Niche Audio says the sounds are designed to feel like crate-digging rather than polished or sparkly. The pack covers jazz-inflected basses and guitars, key cuts, saturated drums, percussion, ambient FX and breaks, and the developer says it also suits downtempo, cinematic and ambient hybrid productions.
The pack leans into a crunchy, lo-fi, vinyl-style character. Niche Audio describes its melodies as blending jazz, hip-hop groove and funky atmospherics, with a touch of ambient grit.
The library includes soulful jazz basses and guitars, vinylistic jazz hits, saturated drums and percussion, and vibe-driven breaks. Chords and stabs make up the largest share of the one-shots, which gives the pack a strong harmonic palette for building beats around.
BluRay Hip Hop is organized into loops across bass, drums, hi-hats and tops, melodic parts, and vocal and FX material. One-shot categories cover bass, FX, hi-hat, kick, snare and clap, chords and stabs, and vocals.
The pack includes full Native Instruments Maschine kits and Ableton Live drum sessions. According to Niche Audio, the kits are mixed and mastered in a consistent structure, so you can swap kits and samples to test different sounds against a song idea. All one-shots, loops and kits are tempo and key matched.
Formats, systems and requirements as listed by Plugin Boutique. Missing details are left out, not guessed.
| Developer | Niche Audio |
|---|---|
| Type | Preset pack / expansion |
| Category | Maschine Expansions |
| Requires | Maschine |
BluRay Hip Hop requires Native Instruments Maschine. The full kits are built for Maschine.
Niche Audio says the loops and one-shots are also available in ZIP format and on Loopcloud, so you can use them in any DAW or studio setup.
The pack includes 14 bass loops, 14 drum loops, 27 hi-hat and top loops, 25 melodic loops and 13 vox and FX loops. The one-shots cover bass, FX, hi-hat, kick, snare and clap, chords and stabs, and vocals.
The sounds are built around old-school, chilled, jazzy hip-hop. Niche Audio also positions them for downtempo, cinematic, ambient and hybrid experimental production.
