Lookin' for some royalty-free, hard-break loops to energize your mix? You could certainly do worse than Peace Love Productions Tough Breaks ($24.95 download from plploops.com), the newest loop collection from our friend DJ Puzzle and Metachemical.

Tough Breaks is full of slamming synth lines, hard-hitting snares, seriously kickin' kicks, badass bass, and all other manner of no-nonsense break loops. The loops in this collection are all broken up into stems -- no premixed beats. Tough Breaks lets you exercise your creativity by letting you mix and match elements together and create smooth, liquid, ever-evolving beatscapes that don't even stop at the break of dawn. Adding to the flexibility of this collection, choice patterns come with accompanying MIDI files for you to layer your own sounds over.

All in all PLP Tough Breaks includes 163 loops, 33 Drum One Shots, and 65 midi files. All audio is 24-bit/44.1kHz and avaialble in ACID-ized WAV, Apple Loop, and Recycle RX2 formats for use with all popular platforms.