It’s no shocker that RE:VIVE is very envious of the British Library Sound Archive. With over 3.5 million hours of recorded wildlife field recordings, spoken word and music from every corner of the globe, the wealth of treasures held in those depots is beyond fathomable. This Sample Pack is just a fraction of what the …
The British Library is renowned for their extensive collection of field recordings. We’re happy to share with you 3GB of archival feild recordings from the UK and around the world freely provided by the British Library and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Grab these incredible sounds here.
Do you even archive? is a regular column where we’ll talk to labels and artists about their archiving, cataloguing and preservation practices. We all know the images of someone’s Brooklyn loft stacked floor to ceiling with records in Ikea shelves. Multiply that by a couple thousand and you’ll end up with something like the British …