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 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 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 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 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 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 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 »
Rubicon Imaginary Landscapes Vol. 1 WAV Conjuring imagined spaces through improvised atmospheres, composer and sound designer Eliot Krimsky offers us Imaginary Landscapes Vol. 1, the latest ambient collection on Rubicon. With a focus on exploring otherworldly textures, Krimsky embraced a workflow that welcomed chance and unexpected results. Chaining a Prophet 6 and OP-1 together with a Strymon Timeline… Read More »