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.
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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.
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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
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The sounds of a city can say a lot. From clattering Busy markets, to silent sleepy villages, bells of a Catholic church, calls to prayer from a mosque, birds or no birds, cars or no cars, public transport or bikes; all provide a sonic landscape that an image could never convey. And while capable of
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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
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Let’s take a step back to your friend’s parents’ basement to a day when your Commodore 64 was the life blood flowing through your adolescent veins. Those 8 and 16 bit sounds pushing the speakers to their limit while the blue-green hue of the screen illuminated a darkened room. Remember those days? Well then come
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In this edition of “There’s more to the story” we dig into the historical context behind Know V.A.’s Damrak contribution, “Nieuwmarkt” a 20 minute sprawling journey that documents and is inspired by the Nieuwmarkt Metro Riots of 1975. You can read the whole feature here. Damrak and the photographic companion are available now for free
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Getting inspired by Damrak and Struggle & Emerge? Want to push your production skills and broaden your horizons are a producers? As part of Amsterdam Dance Event 2016, we’ll be teaming up with SAE Amsterdam once again for a “Conceptual Sampling Workshop”. The workshop is based on the theme ‘around the house’ and the idea
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RE:VIVE had the privileged opportunity of showcasing our first project, Lakker’s Struggle & Emerge with the world at The Hague’s Rewire Festival last April. For us, it was humbling and inspiring to be able to bring cultural heritage and archival material from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to life alongside some of the
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One of the best things about working with archival material is the stories that exist around certain sounds, images or videos. Content maybe be king in today’s age but context is the crown. We want to polish that crown. The video for Swarm Intelligence’s “NDSM Werf” showed scenes of ships being launched at the old
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