Degenerator is a collection of chaotic, contorted loops fashioned from battered rhythm boxes and quirky contraptions by Scot Solida.

Long a fan of unusual rhythms, Scott has called on his considerable collection of high and low tech devices into duty to provide a selection of loops that sit well outside the commonplace.

You won't find any four-to-the-floor trance beats here. Instead, you'll find palpitating percussion and bizarre beats specially designed for the adventurous experimenter.

The emphasis here is on unusual rhythms, though there are a few PPG and Q-960-driven analog sequences that verge on the accessible as well.

Degenerator contains over 200 loops in .aif format, ranging from 100 BPM to 130 BPM. There's a total of around 150 MB of stuff, all royalty-free to use in your music.

Instruments used in the creation of Degenerator include:

• Roland's classic CR-78,
• Korg Minipops,
• Wersimatic WM-1,
• TEG's massive modular synthesizer from Synthesizers.com,
• Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma,
• Moog Minimoog,
• EMS VCS3,
• PPG Wave 2.2,
• Digidesign's Turbosynth,
• U&I's Metasynth