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Rubicon Japan Editions: Melodic Leftfield Bass WAV

By | April 1, 2024

Rubicon Japan Editions: Melodic Leftfield Bass WAV Rubicon is excited to present the first collection of sounds in its new series, Japan Editions. Traveling to Nagoya to produce two packs uniting members of the city’s underground music community, Rubicon aimed to shine a light on a tight-knit scene with a refreshing take on experimental electronic music. Melodic Leftfield… Read More »

Rubicon Uptempo Oddities WAV

By | February 7, 2024

Rubicon Uptempo Oddities WAV Following Liquid Metals & Polyrhythms, Uptempo Oddities explores the upper limits of tempos for the dancefloor. From 140-170bpm, rave rhythms and kinetic sound design comprise the unpredictable collection. As hypnotic as it is hyperactive, Uptempo Oddities contains loops to transfix and energize producers and their work for the club and beyond. 151 loops 111… Read More »

Rubicon Textural Modulations WAV

By | January 23, 2024

Rubicon Textural Modulations WAV Abstracting acoustic instruments, found sounds and field recordings in a modular playground, sound designer Jürgen Branz offers a collection of elastic tones and zones, equal parts organic and synthetic. The soft metallic tones of the sansula and gubal are smeared into granular atmospheres while birdsongs and virtual tape reels are re-harmonised to otherworldly effect.… Read More »

Rubicon Textural Forms WAV

By | January 8, 2024

Rubicon Textural Forms WAV Synthesizing the likeness of real-world textures, UK producer and sound designer Kincaid weaves an uncanny web of scintillating rhythms and atmospheres. His sound design collection for Rubicon blurs the boundaries we use to identify instruments and sounds, and renders a landscape of otherworldly forms, brimming with detail and potential. Designed to inspire future sound… Read More »

Rubicon Cycle of Drone WAV

By | December 18, 2023

Rubicon Cycle of Drone WAV Composed by Mexican producer Nico, Cycle of Drone steps away from more conventional sample fare and into the abstract. Exploring various approaches to drone, it eschews tempo altogether, distributing sounds according to mood instead. Folders are named Morning, Afternoon and Night, signifying three separate dispositions or colors: Morning contains sounds sedate and soothing,… Read More »

Rubicon Glitch Tapestries WAV

By | December 5, 2023

Rubicon Glitch Tapestries WAV Rubicon label manager Tristan Arp returns to sound design duties for the first time since last year’s Polymorphic Perc, diving deep into glitched tones and mangled audio. Glitch music has its origins in the 90s, with producers like Oval who experimented with skipping CDs, but its roots can be traced to musique concrète’s mid-century… Read More »

Rubicon Tea Memory WAV

By | October 5, 2023

Rubicon Tea Memory WAV Japanese architect and ambient composer Hiroki Takahashi drew from fragments of memories in the creation of this sample collection for Rubicon, crafting a pool of sounds that invoke past sensations, smells and environments that come to mind for brief moments in our daily lives. “The impression I got after repeatedly listening to these memory… Read More »

Rubicon Interdimensional Club Stylings WAV

By | September 27, 2023

Rubicon Interdimensional Club Stylings WAV For Interdimensional Club Stylings, the production duo INVT known for their genre-bending club music presents a series of sounds sourced from various studios they’ve worked in. This pack has the ideal textures to make sound systems rattle, move the dance floor, and throw your mind into an introspective trip. The analog drum samples… Read More »

Rubicon Forest Percussion WAV

By | July 25, 2023

Rubicon Forest Percussion WAV Starting from a foundation of field recordings and struck materials from various woods in and around Bristol, Ben Tregaskes (aka Lurka) exaggerated these natural timbres, processing them into hyperreal forms. Dry, close mic’d elements are layered with ambiences which are then sequenced in a music concrete style. Gated ambiences are layered to provide rhythm… Read More »

Rubicon Dream Realities WAV

By | March 16, 2023

Rubicon Dream Realities WAV South Korean duo Salamanda have a penchant for blurring the boundaries between waking life and dream states. “We love making music that stimulate’s one’s imagination and takes them into another world.” Building on the sound palette heard across their recent releases, Salamanda offer us a collection of analog synthesizer, FM grooves and lucid, lively… Read More »

Rubicon Polymorphic Perc WAV

By | March 13, 2023

Rubicon Polymorphic Perc WAV Rubicon label manager Tristan Arp offers up a serving of fractal percussion and swerving textures, created with modular synthesis. Feeding euclidean rhythms and generative patterns into the physical modelling module Plonk, Arp shifts voices mid-phrase for a polymorphic effect. Real-time dub echo throws and spring reverb splashes add dimension to the slippery assortment, pitched… Read More »

Rubicon A Street At Night Blurred WAV

By | March 9, 2023

Rubicon A Street At Night Blurred WAV A Street at Night, Blurred is a collection of acoustically-sourced sounds that have been heavily processed, manipulated, and re-synthesized to feel like they were unearthed from another time and place. Atmospheric and dense, the pack prizes character over clarity and mystery over immediacy. The rhythms often nest other rhythms and ambiguous… Read More »

Rubicon Hybrid Drums & Atmospheric Percussion WAV

By | January 21, 2023

Rubicon Hybrid Drums & Atmospheric Percussion WAV From cinematic and blown-out to airy and aqueous, this percussion collection combines the western drum set augmented by Brazilian and Middle Eastern instruments like tamborins and darbukas. Traditional drums from both hemispheres and found objects are layered for creative polyrhythms and textures, close-mic’d and room-mic’d for intimacy and space. Percussive by… Read More »

Rubicon Dengue Dengue Dengue WAV

By | February 21, 2022

Rubicon Dengue Dengue Dengue WAV Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue explore their hybrid language of Afro-Peruvian rhythms and synthesized sound design in this offering for Rubicon. For their first sample collection, the duo recorded percussionists in Lima in juxtaposition with their analog gear. The resulting pack highlights the triplet cadences and poly-metric DNA of the region while re-contextualizing… Read More »

Modular Inventions with Meng Q & Vavabond WAV

By | December 2, 2021

Modular Inventions with Meng Q & Vavabond WAV For this sample collection, Found Sound Nation and Sonic Collective teamed up with two extraordinary artists from China—pioneering synthesizer maker Meng Qi and leading experimental noise artist Wei Wei (aka VAVABOND). This pack includes a host of highly original synth sounds featuring Meng Qi’s custom-designed Wing Pinger, an analog, modular… Read More »