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Glitch is a genre of electronic music derived from a fascination with the sound of technology failing in interesting ways. While the music originated with musicians exploring things like CDs skipping, the sound of glitch has been absorbed into all types of electronic music, with musicians using glitch noises and effects within a rhythmic framework.
Here [...]

MPC2000xl has released a free sample library based on the Casio Rapman Rap-1.
The Casio Rapman is probably the most bizarre of all Casio toy keyboards from the 80s and 90s. The RAP-1 is the first of the two Rap-themed keyboards from the big ‘C’ and was released in 1991.
The samples were taken directly from the [...]

Real Music Media has released a collection of free Mellotron samples.
These samples were taken from a 30 year old Mellotron M400S, serial #500 a few years ago.
The Tron’s condition was decent. The heads were cleaned and the azimuth was aligned by Streetly Electronics in England (the original maker of this Tron) just prior to sampling. [...]

Sonic Cinema has three free sample packs for download.

Foley Series Vol. 1 - Gloves and brushes (WAV and Soundforge files), a ACIDized sample pack and the first edition of Sonic Cinema’s Foley Series. Containing foley sounds for that extra touch in your production. Be it a score for film or a cinematic music piece.
Foley Series [...]

Ronny Pries has released a free sample pack:
The pack contains 60 chords/stabs and loops between ~110 and ~130 bpm. Most can roughly be classified as minimal, detroit, dubtechno orientated material. You’re invited to cut/slice/mash/torture/mix/whatever and use them for your own tracks.
Details and download here.

Beatmatch is offering five collections of high quality loops for free download for non-commercial use:
Beatmatch.info is a new project aiming to provide fresh and original electro loops and dj tools for producers looking for fresh and cool sounds. Beatmatch.info soundlibraries and loop packs are great tools for modern music producers who want to explore new [...]

 

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There’s a been a lot of interesting synth and electronic music news this week, but it’s always hard to predict what people are going to find interesting.
Here are the stories that got people talking this week, along with some of the most interesting comments:

What do you think of Holy Fuck? - a lot of discussion [...]

The One Laptop Per Child project has made a collection of free audio samples available for download:
This huge and continuously expanding collection of new and original samples have been donated to Dr. Richard Boulanger @ cSounds.com specifically to support the OLPC developers, students and XO users. They are free and will be available under a [...]