Rwanda is a beautiful East African country with rich cultural and musical histories, which Splice was lucky enough to briefly experience. We visited the Land of a Thousand Hills with a field recorder, capturing a wide variety of unique sounds intended to provide a small taste of the Rwandan cultural landscape through audio. This pack includes samples like environmental ambiences from Musanze [...]

For this installment of Sessions recorded at Laboutique Studio in Dakar, Malick Diouf laid down guitar tracks in the styles of Afrobeat, mbalax, Afropop, dancehall, folk, and rock. He was joined by a kora player and ngoni player to round out the pack, while a keyboardist added layers to his compositions. We recorded directly in rather than using an amp, as the result is more true to the African [...]

Culture Alchemy is the fusion of instruments, techniques, styles, and vibes of music and countries spanning the globe. Not only does this pack have traditional instruments and techniques used on them but it also spans into realm of possibility and experimentation. Where most new music and art comes from. The realm of possibility. Like taking a metal scraping instrument called Guira played in [...]

Cosmic flutes is a unique pack exclusively with flute samples created by producer Chef Seth. In this pack you will find both loops and one shots that can take your production to a cosmic level. From years of playing and producing flute the chef has learned how to make the flute sound outer worldly and has now put together a highly curated library to help take your production to another galaxy. [...]

The Middle East Essentials series by Gio Israel set the goal of capturing the most diverse, high-quality, and unique musical material. Making ancient music, sounds and instruments accessible through state of the art sound sampling. [...]

'Deep Ethnic Flutes by Neki' brought to you by IQ Samples presents long and short flute phrases by experimental musician Neki. As founder of Serbian music project ShazaLaKazoo, he shares this collection of deep Ethnic flutes aimed at Deep Electronic music. [...]

Caleb Spaulding (percussionist) and Levina Li (filmmaker and producer) travel together to Marrakech, Morocco to record the sonic landscape of the robust city. Caleb and Levina meet and record local musicians performing traditional Berber instrumentation, and also travel around the city recording environmental ambiences + found sounds. [...]

The Middle East Essentials series by Gio Israel set the goal of capturing the most diverse, high-quality, and unique musical material. Making ancient music, sounds and instruments accessible through state of the art sound sampling. [...]

Middle East Essentials by Gio Israel is the culmination of a series of studio recordings of Middle Eastern masters and prodigies with the goal of capturing the most diverse, high-quality, and unique musical material. The pack series will represent the whole region, featuring performers from various cultures, religions, and backgrounds. Rare instruments will be recorded, alongside vocalists and [...]

This second instrumental pack in Splice Sessions: Senegal features the kora, a strikingly beautiful lute-bridge harp instrument synonymous with the culture of West Africa. The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp. Though when played in the traditional style, its sounds bear a closer resemblance to flamenco and Delta blues guitar techniques. [...]

This edition of Splice Sessions was recorded at Laboutique Studios Dakar with Sidy Koita, a world-renown balafonist who plays with the Orchestre National du Sénégal and many other acts. A member of the griot family in the Mandinka community of Senegal, Koita celebrates the marriage of traditional Senegalese instruments with modern music techniques. It brings him great joy to see the beloved [...]

Congolese Drums with Andre Toungamani is the third installment of Senegal Sessions and the first instrumental pack in the series. This groovy pack focuses on creating sounds to dance to in the style of Mbalax, Afrobeat, hip hop, and dancehall. [...]