Rubicon Ambient Drones & Atmospheres WAV Collaborating virtually throughout quarantine across Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles, sound designers Nika Milano, Landon Speers and Julio Cann created a library of environments to be used as backdrops or foregrounds in productions of all genres. Minimal drones and lush, cascading fields of sound comprise the sound palette of Ambient… Read More »
Rubicon Mineral Shimmer WAV Iridescent melodies and drones contrast hard, angular sound design textures and percussion on experimental producer Minor Science’s first collection of samples for Rubicon. Mineral Shimmer is an extension of the sound-world heard on his Absent Friends Vol. 3 album for Balmat in 2023. Like the record, the pack places luminous ambient material alongside sharper… Read More »
Rubicon Leftfield Percussion WAV 92elm and; ZONE Drums return to Rubicon with Leftfield Percussion, an explosive and; dynamic exploration of percussion textures. Taking inspiration from Artifact Percussion, Leftfield Percussion leans into the uptempo energy of leftfield bass music. Fast, driving rhythms and; uniquely pitched timbres are paired with tape delays, spring reverbs, and tasteful saturation processing to create… Read More »
Rubicon Japan Editions Nagoya & Osaka Ambient WAV In the Fall of 2023, Rubicon travelled to Nagoya, Japan to produce two packs highlighting the organic sounds of the region’s contemporary electronic music scene. The second release in the Japan Editions series, Nagoya & Osaka Ambient compiles the modular, granular and unconventional sound design practices of Am Shhara and… Read More »
Rubicon Pressure Density WAV Inspired by hydraulic pressure, steam room reverbs and synthesis that buckles and twists, Manchester soundbender Henzo carves up a collection of leftfield tones for Rubicon. While the most obvious applications of these percs, basslines and atmospheres would be bass music, dubstep and half step dnb, wobbly fx and one shot motifs call to mind… Read More »
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 »