To be fair, the term "Orient" did originally mean the geographical region that was (more or less) controlled at one time by the Ottoman Empire. The term itself means "east" and started to encapsulate more and more countries in Aisa, more of less as they were discovered by Europeans. Best Service Diamonds Of Orient pretends like that expansion never happened, thank you very much.

In this case, the "Orient" from which Diamonds were hewn (compressed?) includes "the Caucasus to Balkan, with sonic stopovers in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Persia, Chechenia, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq and Macedonia!" You may remember some of these countries from the controversial Burger King "Whopper Virgins" commercials from a few months ago.

The collection is comprised of Construction Kits and Sample Loops of "native" (sigh) musicians playing percussive instruments like Nagara and Gosha-Nagara, Natik, Xeyam, Darbuka, Davul, Zil, Tumba, Durmaz and something called "spoons." Loops are in culturalley appropriate time signatures like 3/4, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 10/8 and 12/8 (55 Bpm - 260 Bpm), though also easy to cut and superimpose over 4/4 projects.

Collection producer Efkan Durmaz used Neumann U87s to capture all the samples on this recording. 113 Construction Kits and 846 Single Instrument Loops (6.35 GB) in WAV, AIFF, REX2, SAGE (Stylus RMX) formats.