Rabid Gravy

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Last summer's Summer EP

Last summer I gathered together a few of my recent tracks and uploaded them to Last FM as Summer EP. I didn't really push it much and it was only really an EP because Last FM prefers it if you create an "album" rather than uploading individual tracks :)

Anyway yesterday someone asked me on twitter if I could send them some of my tracks for a radio show. And at that point I discovered that I still had the original ZIP file of the 320K mp3s that I had uploaded (that's a nice feature, thanks Last FM!) So rather than mail the file (google mail was struggling with the size of the message,) I uploaded it to rabidgravy.com so I could share it more widely.

Download the whole EP as single ZIP file here.

So here you have it, last summer's Summer EP. Download it, play it, blog about it, share it with your friends and enjoy it. Let me know what you think either with a comment here or on the Soundcloud tracks below.

I'm always interested in doing live performances, suggestions for remixes and ideas for other collaborative projects, e-mail me or contact me via twitter.

Test Tube by Rabid Gravy Accidental Ambience by Rabid Gravy Tunnel by Rabid Gravy Terminal Building (Harder Wider mix) by Rabid Gravy Revolution by Rabid Gravy Lifetime Of Dither by Rabid Gravy

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Posted June 10, 2011
 

Philharmonia Orchestra: The Sound Exchange: Make Music: Samples: Sample Library

Sample Library

Thousands of free, downloadable sound samples specially recorded by Philharmonia Orchestra players.

These samples are suitable for creating any kind of music, no matter what you're into. From piccolo to double bass there are single notes, phrases and whole orchestra samples to choose from.

via philharmonia.co.uk

This morning I asked on Twitter: "Anyone got a chromatic set of Tuba or Souzaphone samples ?" after hearing the excellent bass lines on the souzaphone played by Kirk Joseph in the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. I'd really like to get some of that sound in my tracks, okay probably messed up and filtered a bit but hey!

Anyway a quick web search and this site came up as the top hit :)

This is an absolutely awesome collection of well made and really useful samples and I don't know how I can praise the Philharmonia and the supporters of this project ("The David and Elaine Potter Charitable Foundation") enough for making it available.

Posted March 4, 2011