Here.
Edit: The Real Snare Drum is now up.
Here:
http://sordidbusiness.com/wp/sample-this-2/
Edit: Endangered Rhythms is now up.
Here:
http://sordidbusiness.com/wp/sample-this-part-3/
For those who are curious who 'we' are, I am referring to myself, John Gump, and my long time friend and co-worker Charles Schlee. We owned a small sample company called Real Music Media. We made loops that sold pretty well, a couple of multisampled instruments in the sfz format that were often praised but rarely purchased, and we made a whole bunch of samples for Music Tech magazine.
Eventually we decided that it was eating up more of our time and trouble than it was worth. It just became another source of stress. So we stopped production, and made our catalog available for free in a downsampled and limited format. We also provided the samples and hosting for the Open Source Drum Kit and its forum.
Of course no good deed goes unpunished. Our website's domains were seized in a trademark dispute. Apparently some company owns the rights to the words 'real music'. This company concluded that their crappy search engine rankings were due to others (i.e. us) ripping them off through nefarious techniques like offering free content that people actually want.
It made little sense for us to fight a company with a legal staff on retainer, especially for a site that was already losing money, so Real Music Media went away for good.
But neither I nor Charles wanted to take our samples offline. And to make up for lost time, the samples being offered now are not the downsampled versions that were first offered for free back in 2009, but the full quality 24 bit wav and rex files that were originally offered for sale. Most of these have never before been released for free. To make things even more interesting, they are all being released into the public domain.
It is but a poor sacrifice that we offer to the Gods of Freeware. Here at KVR, their Olympus.
