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Soundtracks - 810 (5.14%)
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Pop, R&B, Funk - 1388 (8.8%)
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Rock, Metal - 2332 (14.79%)
14.79%
Rap, Hip Hop - 3192 (20.24%)
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Jazz, Classical - 568 (3.6%)
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World, New Age - 150 (0.95%)
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Avant-Garde - 166 (1.05%)
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Folk, Country - 131 (0.83%)
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Ska - 36 (0.23%)
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Electronic (general) - 3342 (21.19%)
21.19%
- Ambient, Lounge - 315 (2%)
2%
- Club, Dance - 471 (2.99%)
2.99%
- D&B - 556 (3.53%)
3.53%
- House - 1332 (8.45%)
8.45%
- Trance - 698 (4.43%)
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- Industrial - 283 (1.79%)
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Software » Windows
IK Multimedia Pianoverse Liberty Upright Fine Tuned-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 22 Oct 2024 | 17.39GB
The Liberty Upright piano is not just a virtual instrument; it's a unique piece of history based on a robot-assisted deep multisampling of a 1915 Koch & Korselt upright grand piano from Bohemia in today’s Czech Republic. Renowned for its rich, resonant sound, this upright piano was captured twice — first in its original relic condition and then after being fine-tuned to the highest standard. The results double the unique new colors added to Pianoverse, expanding your creative palette in ways you've never imagined.
Software » Windows
IK Multimedia Pianoverse Hamburg Grand S274-R2R screenshot
Team R2R | 22 Oct 2024 | 8.33GB
Hamburg Grand S274 is based on a robot-assisted deep multisampling of a 9’ Hamburg D-274 from 1958, a concert grand piano manufactured by Steinway & Sons of Germany. Each Hamburg D-274 is handcrafted and the entire process, from selecting the wood to voicing the strings, takes over a year. This dedication to quality has attracted the world’s greatest players throughout the years including Lang Lang, Emanuel Ax, Hélène Grimaud, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, the legendary Russian composer and pianist.
Software, Windows
Native Instruments Kontakt 8 v8.1.0 WiN-bobdule TCD screenshot
AudioZ | 22 October 2024 | 1.6 GB
With KONTAKT, you can sound like a snare drum, a symphony orchestra, or anything in between, from a universe of sampled instruments. It’s a simple sampler when you want it to be, and a deep sonic scripting laboratory when you need something more. The next generation of the world’s favorite sampling platform gives you new instruments and new features under the hood – so you can layer, link, stretch, and shape your sounds any way you can imagine.
Samples, Kontakt
Sonora Cinematic Porphyra Hybrid KONTAKT READ NFO-ohsie screenshot
ohsie | 22 October 2024 | 690 MB
HYBRID SYNTHESIZER FOR LUSH PADS, VIBRANT LEADS & INTRICATE ATMOSPHERES
Sonora Cinematic is excited to present Porphyra Hybrid, an innovative Kontakt Player synthesizer created in collaboration with Ocean Swift Synthesis which combines a powerful wavetable engine with sampling capabilities, bringing precision control and rich sonic textures far beyond typical sample-wavetable hybrids.
Samples, sound effects, loops
Zenhiser Mist - Techno WAV-FANTASTiC screenshot
FANTASTiC | 21 October 2024 | 332.04 MB
Immerse yourself in the devastatingly good soundscapes of Mist, a Zenhiser pack meticulously crafted for the lover of Techno. Designed to infuse organic, progressive, melodic and eclecticism, Mist defies the laws of musical gravity, elevating its potential to uncharted heights. 
Software, Mac OSX
Native Instruments Kontakt 8 v8.1.0 U2B Mac [MORiA] screenshot
MORiA | STANDALONE | AUi | VST3i | 1.4 GB
KONTAKT 8 The virtual instrument platform reinvented.

Imagine any sound – Kontakt lets you find it, create it, and transform it. The latest edition of our revolutionary sampling platform combines a brand-new set of intelligent tools with countless sound design options, redefining how you generate ideas and make music. A huge choice of sound. Kontakt hosts the world’s largest range of virtual instruments. With thousands of libraries, it's the gateway to quality sound from Native Instruments, our official partners, and scores of indie developers. Plus, everything is completely tweakable, so you can make any sound your own.
Software, Mac OSX
Wavesfactory Equalizer v1.0.2 U2B Mac [MORiA] screenshot
MORiA | AU | VST | VST3 | AAX* | 24.5 MB
EQUALIZER Equalizer intelligently and dynamically balances your tracks.

It shapes the tone of your signal to make it sound more natural. It enhances deficiencies and attenuates excesses. Zero latency. Dynamic tone shaper. Equalizer analyzes your tracks and intelligently decides where to apply corrections (boosts or cuts) to make them sound more natural and pleasing to the ear. It refines your tracks by performing constant EQ changes based on the input signal, giving results previously impossible to get. Equalizer significantly streamlines the mixing process. Use it as a starting point in a mix to even out the balance of the tracks, thereby reducing the amount of processing required in later stages. It can also be used on the master bus to make final adjustments to the entire mix or master.
Samples » loops
Empire Soundkits Checkmate WAV-FANTASTiC screenshot
FANTASTiC | 21 October 2024 | 313.18 MB
'Checkmate - Loop Kit' by Empire Sound Kits presents 15 carefully crafted and industry mixed ready to go loops made by producer Hostile Beatz who is signed to Grammy Winning Duo Cool n Dre, Epidemic Music. Loops inside this pack come in genres such as Hip-Hop, Trap, Drill, Westcoast, RnB and more, Hostile made sure to give a wide range of versatile loops.
Software, Windows
Solemn Tones The Loki Bass 2 WiN screenshot
AudioZ Exclusive | 22 October 2024 | 2 GB
Whether you're replacing recorded bass or programming your bass tracks from scratch, Loki 2 will be the ultimate bass sampler to create the foundation of your mix.

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Education
Reflections on the Musical Mind An Evolutionary Perspective by Jay Schulkin EPUB screenshot
2013 | Princeton University Press | ISBN: 0691157448 | 2.75 MB | 272 Pages | EPUB
What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential.
Education
The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres by Steve Madison EPUB screenshot
2020 | Steve Madison| ISBN: 9781716513619 | 1.34 MB | 246 Pages | EPUB
Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple – to arrive not at any old music, but the finest music that can possibly be played. The ideal music is reached when every player is in perfect harmony with every other player, and not a single discordant note is played. The orchestra is as one, and there are no disruptive soloists trying to play their own song. It takes the lifetime of the universe to arrive at this perfect music. Every disruptive soloist has to be brought into the collective orchestra. Who is the Devil? He’s the final hold-out, the last player to be integrated into the orchestra. Who is the conductor of the orchestra? It’s Abraxas, the first God, the first to play a tuneful song and recruit others to his song. Whose side are you on?
Education
Inner Sound Altered States of Consciousness in Electronic Music and Audio-Visual Media by Jonathan Weinel EPUB screenshot
2018 | Oxford University Press | ISBN: 978-0190671198 | 2.01 MB | 224 Pages | EPUB
Inner Sound explores how altered states of consciousness have shaped the design of electronic music and audio-visual media. The book begins by discussing consciousness, and how this may change during states such as dreaming, psychedelic experience, meditation, and trance. Next, a variety of shamanic traditions are reviewed, in order to explore how indigenous societies have reflected visionary experiences through visual art and music.
Education
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain by Michael H. Thaut and Donald A. Hodges EPUB screenshot
2019 | Oxford University Press| ISBN: 9780198804123 | 7.54 MB | 848 Pages | EPUB
The study of music and the brain can be traced back to the work of Gall in the 18th century, continuing with John Hughlings Jackson, August Knoblauch, Richard Wallaschek, and others. These early researchers were interested in localizing musicality in the brain and learning more about how music is processed in both healthy individuals and those with dysfunctions of various kinds. Since then, the research literature has mushroomed, especially in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Education
DIY Musical Instruments (coll.) EPUB screenshot
2011 | Instructable|13 MB | 271 Pages | EPUB
Get crafty and make your own musical instruments at home! Each instructable below will walk you through the process of making an instrument using common materials. We've got pipes, kazoos, guitars, drums, shakers and more! There are even a couple tutorials that use 3D printing and Tinkercad to make an instrument. Be sure to browse the tutorials below and let us know what you make!
Education
Metaphor and Musical Thought by Michael Spitzer EPUB screenshot
2015 | University of Chicago Press| ISBN: 022627313X | 25.4 MB | 392 Pages | EPUB
“The scholarship of Michael Spitzer’s new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner.”-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
Education » Literary
The Bouzouki Book: A Workshop Guide to Building Irish Bouzoukis and Citterns screenshot
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9780980476224 | 357 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB
A workshop guide to building Irish bouzoukis and citterns. In the past forty years bouzoukis, citterns and octave mandolins have become an essential part of acoustic music. The Bouzouki Book is the first, and only, book to guides the reader through the steps to build one of these fascinating stringed musical instruments. The book includes nearly 200 colour and B&W illustrations as well as plans for all major components.
Education » Literary
Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel screenshot
English | ISBN: 0813596602 | 2019 | 236 pages | PDF | 950 KB
Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel’s soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities. These “musical fictions” depict Caribbean people turning to calypso, bolero, reggae, gwoka, and dub to record, retrieve, and replay personal and cultural memories. Offering a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization, Phonographic Memories affirms the continued importance of Caribbean music in providing contemporary novelists ethical narrative models for sounding marginalized memories and voices.
Samples, loops
Slate Digital SATIN SamplePack WAV [FREE for Limited Time] screenshot
FREE | 12 November 2021 | 2 GB
SATIN R&B SAMPLE PACK
The sultry sounds of modern R&B as you've never heard them. With guitar riffs dripping with personality to the famous Rhodes keyboard used by Columbia Records' Hollywood Studio, SATIN is one of our favorite packs of all time. Whether you're invoking modern R&B or reaching back in time for some 90's nostalgia, SATIN is our sexiest sample pack yet.
Education » Literary
Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading screenshot
English | ISBN: 1478000112 | 2019 | 416 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.
Education
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro EPUB screenshot
2020 | Faber| ISBN: 9780571359820 | 527 KB | 368 Pages | EPUB
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.
Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign at the end of the decade.

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