Citizen DJ: Library of Congress Sample Library for Electronic Music

[Lagduf]

https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/

I'm downloading all the samples now. The full audio they come from are available in full and there is a web based sampler/sequencer that is admittedly pretty powerful for what it is. It's stupid how fun it is. Why did I spend almost a grand on a hardware sampler lol?

There is no reason for something so awesome as this to exist and the world is a better place for it.

You can even share your jams:

Example 1

Example 2

Anyway, thought some people would be interested. If not? Well fuck off.

EDIT: On Safari on iOS I don’t get any sound. Had no issue using chrome on a windows machine. YMMV.

 

[NeoEsZ]

This is incredibly cool. You weren’t lying. There is really no good reason for this to exist but I’m glad that it does.

 

[Takumaji]

Really cool, will check out what's there, thanks for sharing.

 

[Digmac]

This is seriously cool, and I would never have known if not for the share. Thanks for posting, man.

 

[Lagduf]

The sample packs themselves are a bit strange. You get the full song/interview/whatever but then then the curator has already taken the liberty of slicing the song as well and you get it chopped up. So there’s a lot of stuff to sift through. Each pack has like 4000 one shots, yikes.

I originally just dumped everything on my hardware sampler but....scrolling through all those samples was impossible lol.

The web interface is a nice way to explore the sounds and then find one you would like to use with your gear or DAW.

 

[wataru330]

Sick.

USA! USA! USA!