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.
Sounds of the Seaside and Wild Places – British Library Read More »
Serving as the basis for our V/A – 010 release with Fog Mountain Records, you can now have access to over 5GB of free archival films and sounds of Rotterdam provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. All sounds and films licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. Grab the sample pack here.
Rotterdam Sample Pack Read More »
The concept of music designed specifically as a background feature in the environment was pioneered by Muzak Inc. in the fifties, and has since come to be known generically by the term Muzak. The connotations that this term carries are those particularly associated with the kind of material that Muzak Inc. produces – familiar tunes
Sample Pack: Schiphol Airport Read More »
Starting one of these sample packs can be a bit difficult simply because there’s no easy way to explore millions of archival items. It’s not like walking into a record store or even using YouTube where you can just dive in and start randomly browsing. You have to feed the platform some data. Browse features
Sample Pack : Madagascar, Switzerland, Tahiti, China and an Accordion Read More »
You know that roommate who is really loud in the mornings and you think, “How on earth can anyone make so much noise?” Ever record it and play it back to them so that they know exactly what kind of racket that 3-egg omelet and green smoothie breakfast makes? Of course not, that’s crazy. But
Sample Pack: Around the House Read More »
It comes up every now and then; someone discovers a massive collection of recordings in a basement, attic, or storage space and it winds up being an incredibly valuable cultural discovery. It’s not surprising. Actually, it’s surprising that it doesn’t happen more often. There’s a lot of recordings in the world. If the first ever recording was
Collection Spotlight | The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991 Read More »
What does your Amsterdam look like? I mean, we all know what it looks like in photos: bikes, canals, canal houses, red lights, flowers, cute cute etc. But what does it really look like to you? Let’s say you have 1,000 photos of Amsterdam spanning centuries and you have to “mosaically” create your own picture,
Sample Pack: Amsterdam Read More »
In Jack Johnson’s (yes, that Jack Johnson) first surf film Thicker Than Water (2000) him and his film making partner Chris Malloy made use of two ethnographic recordings neither of which appear on the film’s official soundtrack. One is “Prettiest Train” a field recording made by Alan Lomax at Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)
Sample Pack: The Music of Samoa Read More »
Hey again! Here’s our second sample pack. This time we’re sticking around Europe and the 20th century with a little trip to Africa thanks to our friends at the National Library of France. We definitely recommend browsing through their Gallica portal. You can find millions of fascinating archival materials there, a lot of which are
Welcome to the first of what will be a regular column at RE:VIVE called “Sample Pack”. These sample packs will feature mixes of archival sounds that we’ve come across that we think will be interesting for you to sample. The sounds will range from digitized wax cylinder recordings, old 78s, folk songs, field recordings, ambient