From cinematic and blown-out to airy and aqueous, this percussion collection combines the western drum set augmented by Brazilian and Middle Eastern instruments like tamborins and darbukas. Traditional drums from both hemispheres and found objects are layered for creative polyrhythms and textures, close-mic’d and room-mic’d for intimacy and space. Percussive by nature but ambient by design, these sounds evoke lush earthly environments to bring warmth to electronic productions or sit alongside any acoustic arrangement.

Patchbanks Rubicon Drums Vol.2

Patchbanks Riff Mode VS-01

Patchbanks Rubicon Drums Vol.1

Patchbanks Space Disco Bass

Patchbanks Philly Breaks DK03

Patchbanks Philly Breaks DK02

Patchbanks Philly Breaks DK01

Patchbanks Illmatic Samples

Fulu Miziki is a collective from the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating instruments from found objects and recycled materials. Crafting sonic gems from everyday detritus, they are sound designers in the truest sense, guided by resourcefulness and ingenuity. Their custom instrumentation brings a distinct voice to their dense polyrhythmic improvisations and embodies the virtue of doing more with less.

Re-synthesizing the rhythmic DNA of Mexican, Cuban, South American, and Prehispanic music into myriad new club forms, Mexicali producer Siete Catorce has been a prolific voice in experimental music for the past decade. Mimicking the timbres of acoustic instruments and stretching them to the limits of the digital domain, Siete Catorce’s sound design is steeped in an alien futurism with uncanny reference to mechanical and earthly roots. His first offering in sample pack form is a generous collection brimming with potential for further mutation.