KSHMR and Excite Audio Bring Indian Soul to Modern Beats with Bloom KSHMR
Excite Audio teams up with KSHMR to launch Bloom KSHMR, a powerful new instrument that blends authentic Indian and South Asian recordings with a flexible sequencing engine and modern effects.
The Bloom line has quietly become a Swiss-army instrument for producers. Its latest chapter, Bloom KSHMR, drops today and folds Indian and South-Asian timbres into a sequencing engine that already powers the series’ percussion and vocal offerings. If you have ever tried to sneak a dusty tabla loop into a techno session without killing the groove, this one’s for you.
KSHMR’s fingerprints are everywhere. After sharpening workflows with KSHMR Chain in 2023, the California-born producer has traded utility for inspiration, curating every hit, strum and chant in the new library.
"Bloom KSHMR has Indian sounds and Indian culture to offer you. But as you play with the Bloom interface, the effects that are there, the sequencer that is there, you'll realise that it can create almost anything.” - KSHMR
Fire up the Main page and you get fourteen colour-coded pads that trigger one-shots and loops locked to your project tempo. Above them sits Bloom’s familiar sequencer, a phrase-builder that lets you change playback direction, rate and pitch without touching a piano-roll. Four macro knobs - Lo-Fi, Tube, Width and Space - ride on top of an FX chain tuned by KSHMR himself.
Dig deeper and the Edit page turns the instrument into a de facto sampler. Start and end points, choke groups, formants and envelope curves are all a click away, so those raw khanjira slaps can morph into a polyrhythmic synth stab before you hit export.
Drag-and-drop sample import means you can replace KSHMR’s source audio with your own field recordings yet keep his sequencing razzle in place. It feels a bit like ghost-writing with a Grammy winner on Zoom.
Of course the headline is the preset count: 250 patches arranged by mood rather than strict instrumentation. There are Bollywood-scale string runs that would sit under a pop chorus, whispered vocal phrases begging for halftime DnB, and several drone banks that conjure sunrise on a Goa beach without lapsing into cliché.
A quick scroll through the browser reveals tempo-synced patterns for four-four, dembow and odd-meter folk rhythms, making the plug-in surprisingly genre-fluid.
“One of the things that I'm most proud of with Bloom KSHMR is the process and the people involved in making the sounds for it” - KSHMR
