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SampleRadar: 330 free retro house samples
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House music has certainly evolved over the years, but many of us still have a fondness for the deep bass, tight beats and simple instrumentation that typified its early sound
SampleRadar: 546 free retro and degraded samples
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Stock up on 8-bit and messed-with sounds
SampleRadar: 495 free retimed and repitched samples
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If you like your samples short and sweet, look away now, because we're focusing here on sounds that have been stretched and shifted out of their original sonic form.
SampleRadar: 227 free remix samples
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Reworking a track? Inspiration starts here
SampleRadar: 286 free real-world FX samples
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Field recordings, body sounds and Foley FX
SampleRadar: 285 free real-world drum samples
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Hits and loops with a difference
SampleRadar: 496 free random sequence samples
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You never know what you're going to get…
SampleRadar: 254 free Radiosonics samples
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Experimental audio for your DAW
SampleRadar: 225 free pure evil samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Every once in a while, we have darker thoughts, and these are reflected in this week's collection of deliciously dark sounds.
SampleRadar: 347 free prog rock samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Give your music some hirsute bombast
SampleRadar: 357 free Prodigy-style samples
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Start a fire with these punked-up sounds
SampleRadar: 462 free pop samples
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Radio-friendly, hit-making sounds
SampleRadar: 204 free percussion samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Cajon, Conga and Djembe sounds
SampleRadar: 316 free Parisian-style samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
The sound of the French capital in your DAW
SampleRadar: 464 free out there FX samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Not quite normal noises for your tunes
SampleRadar: 318 free old-school rave samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
White gloves, glowsticks and dummies at the ready
SampleRadar: 306 free off the grid samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
We all know how useful the 'snap to grid' function can be, but we're also acutely aware that "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"
SampleRadar: 426 free nu-disco samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Slip on your boogie shoes and hit the floor
SampleRadar: 253 free nu Balearic samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Give your music an Ibizan influence
SampleRadar: 502 free noise, hiss and crackle samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Nasty noise by the lorry-load.
SampleRadar: 250 free modular synth samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
The sound of an analogue monster, tamed
204 free modular madness samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
A truckload of these old-school sonic samples.
SampleRadar: 350 free minimal house samples
By The MusicRadar team last updated
Beats, basslines, synths and percussion
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