"We picked twelve cities because thirteen would have been a flex and ten would have been a lie." — Aviv Mor, founder
One hundred 3D boxes across twelve worldwide themes. The list was not
drawn from a chart. It was drawn from a spreadsheet of the genres our
broadcasters and game studios actually license, ranked by request
volume over the last eighteen months, then filtered by which cities
have a working producer scene we could record in person.
We started with a list of twenty-three candidate themes. Drum-and-bass
Bristol, Detroit techno, Atlanta trap, Nashville americana, Cape Town
gqom, Seoul k-pop, Tokyo city pop, Lagos afrobeats. The shortlist had
to do three jobs at once: cover the formats licensees ask for, ship
without overlap, and survive a year of rotation without going stale.
Twelve survived because twelve mapped cleanly to the calendar. One
box drop per month per theme, two themes refreshed per fortnight, the
catalog cycles through itself once a year. Ten left two months
uncovered. Fourteen forced two themes into the same drop week.
The producer credit on each World Kit page is the working pro who
tracked the loops, not a marketing name. Each list below is the
single named producer who owns that theme plus one concrete
technique they ship in every box.
- Neo-Tokyo Night, Ren Hayashi (Shibuya, 2024). Roland Juno-106
through a Strymon BigSky on Ribbon, printed to a Tascam 414 in two
passes. Rain noise comes from a binaural Sennheiser MKE 2 walk near
Yoyogi station, never from a library.
- Berlin Substation, Lukas Vogel (Kreuzberg, 2024). 132 BPM kicks
tracked through an SSL G-comp at 4:1, side-chain from a TR-909 hat.
No reverb on the kick — the room is 3.6 m by 4.4 m and the room
itself is the tail.
- Lagos Future, Tunde Adeyemi (Yaba, 2025). Live talking drum and
shekere, then a layer of Output Substance for the sub. Mastered to
a -12 LUFS ceiling for FM-radio crossover, not -14.
- Rio Baile Funk, Bea Souza (Madureira, 2025). The signature
tamborzão pattern is sampled from a 1998 vinyl rip, then replaced
one-to-one with a fresh Roland SPD-SX print at the same tempo —
the rip is the reference, not the source.
- Mumbai Hybrid, Aanya Khanna (Bandra, 2024). Spitfire BBC SO
layered with a live tabla through a Neumann KM-184. The orchestral
bow stroke is always 30 ms behind the tabla hit; the lag is
intentional and printed.
- Seoul Prism, Hana Park (Hongdae, 2025). The k-pop vocal chops
are sung live by a session vocalist into a Sony C-100, never pitched
up from a male take. Top-line range is C5 to E5.
- Dubai Hyperpop, Layla Mansour (Karama, 2025). Serum FM bell
stacks side-chained to a 165 BPM kick, then sliced to 32nds in
Ableton's slice-to-MIDI. The slicing is what makes the patches feel
modern instead of trance-revival.
- Mexico Corrido Tumbado, Mateo Reyes (Guadalajara, 2024). Live
requinto and tuba, tracked together in one room with a single
Shure SM57 on each so the bleed glues the parts. Tempo locked to
Peso Pluma's working range, 110 to 125 BPM.
- Nordic Aurora, Sigrid Holm (Reykjavik, 2024). Score-grade
strings tracked at the Harpa with Royer R-121 ribbons, then
Valhalla Shimmer at 60% wet on a stereo bus. Targets the trailer
market, not the album market.
- Ibiza Sunset, Carlos Vega (San Antonio, 2024). 122 BPM house
with a piano stack through a Yamaha C7 into a UA Apollo x8p,
bus-compressed by the Manley Vari-Mu at 2 dB GR. The sunset is in
the EQ, not in the pads.
- AI Cyberspace, Eitan Bar (Tel Aviv, 2025). The only box where AI
is on the box itself. DDSP perturbation runs on the lead synth
print so every loop is a single deterministic variation of the
source patch. The license still says royalty-free perpetual.
- Outer Trance, Jonas Berg (Gothenburg, 2025). 138 BPM trance
with a Roland JP-8000 supersaw, no preset. The supersaw is
rebuilt from scratch for each box so the chord voicings sit
differently in the stereo field across the line.
Every World Kit page carries the producer name in the same place: above
the BPM range, below the city tag. The credit links to the producer's
artist page. The artist page links to every other kit they have shipped.
A licensee who finds a sound they like in Shibuya 3AM can click
through to every other Ren Hayashi kit in two clicks.
Every kit prints at -14 LUFS integrated, -1.0 dBTP, with a -16 LUFS
short-term ceiling that protects the loudest hit from collapsing
when it lands in a louder mix. The only exception is Lagos Future,
which prints at -12 LUFS for FM-radio crossover. The exception is
noted on the kit page.
Browse the line at /world-kits.