Alright, here they are. A good deal of these links appear elsewhere in the site, but if you missed 'em the first time round...


CONTENTS

Audio samples archives
Original Drum n' Bass MOD's, Audio streams, MP3's
Free audio resources and tools
MP3 resources



SAMPLE ARCHIVES

Mean Beat ***NEW***
This sample site is devoted to drum loops and percussive samples, both analog and digital.

Audio QuEmAo ***NEW***
A small but impressive collection of breakbeat, pad, fx and percussive samples. Guaranteed to spice up your productions.

Count Rocula
Incredible collection of high quality breakbeat, string, guitar and bass samples. A lot of these I hadn't heard before.

Sample Arena
A cool resource for electronic musicians, including loads of drum, turntable, vocal, synth and sfx samples as well as links to production tools and other samples pages.

Nexus Project
A great collection of drum, breakbeat, vocal and pad samples, as well as good information on commercial soft synths and sequencing software.

Loopasonic
Probably the best collection of sampled funk and bass loops on the net. Plus drum and guitar loops too.

www.analoguesamples.com
Want vintage analogue samples? Look no further. As the site admin put it, this is "a wet dream for electronic musicians"!

Samples for trackers
Loads of professional quality samples from vintage synths, mostly in wav format.

Xi-Dimension
A lot of cool drum packs to choose from, 808, 909, 727 etc.

The Bass Emporium
If you like bass, go check these guys out! They have a whole heap of original bass samples that will keep drum and bass producers busy for quite some time. This is one of my favourite archives of all time.

Etrisene
A very impressive collection of fast n' furious breakbeats, drum hits, and original bass and bleep samples.

113 Audio Resources
Hip-hop, drum n bass, funk, anything dope that makes your head nod. Lotsa beats...

Millennium Records UK
Samples in wav format by artists on the Millennium label, like Dr Octopus, Genetix, Head Doctor. And they're free for you to use!

Phat Drum Loops
Phat Drum loops... and lots of 'em! More dope beats than you can shake a drumstick at. Lots of rare funk and hip hop loops, one of my fave archives.

Samplenet
Drums, vocals, orchestral sounds, breaks, plus lots of shareware and demo audio resources.

Weazle World
Good breaks! Good drum samples! Drum and bass vocals too. Visit this one for sure...

Soundwave
Samples from popular synths like the Juno, Waldorf, Typhoon and Roland 606. Plus lo-fi "tracker packs" for mod makers.

The Daily Wav
Look no further if movie and tv vocal samples are what you desire. As with most movie archives the sound quality is poor, but this list is quite comprehensive.

True Playaz Green Room
The nice folk at the True Playaz label (Home of Hype, Dope Skillz et al) have lent some of their artist's very cool samples for d & b makers at home to play with.

The Quadra Synth Sample Archive
Pro quality synthesizer samples: wind instruments, sfx, choir, strings, percussion, keyboards.

Wav Central
Movie, TV and sfx samples.

Soundstate
Pads, 808, 909 samples. Sound effects too. Mostly LHA format 8 bit samples, but the webmaster promises that new samples will all be PC formats and 16 bit. Samples are available in downloadable packs, not individually.

Drum and Bass Arena
Samples of varying quality taken mostly from jungle cd's.

Partners in Rhyme
Some free sound effects and music loops.



ORIGINAL D n' B MP3's, AUDIO STREAMS, MOD'S

Simon V
Simon V is ruling the scene, no doubt! His tracks on Santorin records are getting dropped by DJ's like Bailey, Storm and Peshay... need I say more?

Mobiuz
This U.S. producer is making some of the best tracks out on mp3.com, and has also remixed a number of other artist's tunes

Cycom
Well produced drum and bass out of Germany, ranging from jazzy funk to hi-tech steppers. As well as his own rollers, his remix of Mobiuz's Nexus is a real treat.

Simon Static ***NEW***
Top notch tech-steppin' and down-tempo beats straight outta Canada.

Kodeine
Kodeine is an exponent of the darker side of drum and bass, laying down tracks guaranteed to tear up the dancefloor.

Static
This guy does amazing things with Buzz Tracker. Monster tracks for those of you who love dark steppers in the Renegade Hardware vein.

Dj Daze
Great tru playaz style drum and bass out on Armageddon

300 baud
From illbient and minimal electronica to tech step, 300 baud's tracks are always dark and noisy.

Rebound
As well as kick butt page design, this tracker release group features a whole heap of no-nonsense drum and bass tracks, with artists like Krii, Phonex and Wrongborn exploring the outer limits of the breakbeat music. Files can be downloaded in IT and XM format.

Tokyo Dawn
This tracker release group runs the gamut from trip hop to drum and bass. Files can be downloaded in IT, XM, and mp3 format.

Coldboot
Drum and bass sounds from Japan.

Venality
Melodic breakbeat with some deeeep bass, fresh out of Sweden. Downloadable as MP3 or as Real Audio stream.

Mudfoot
Finding this site has made my afternoon worthwhile. This NY dj and producer has the dopest jumpup tracks and mp3's, rad web design, and mix tapes and streams too. Don't miss this one...

Critical Adjustment/Keltech
dark & dangerous drum&bass productions + resources

Breakbeat Era
The unofficial home of the artists Roni Size/Reprazent, DJ Krust, DJ Die, DJ Suv, and the labels Full Cycle, Dope Dragon, V Recordings, Philly Blunt, Chronic and Protocol plus many other aspects of the drum and bass scene. Original tracks are available as RA steams... very cool stuff.

Thrax
Thrax have links to free audio software, samples archives, and a massive archive of mods. If you're into tracking then this place is one of the best ways to keep up with the scene.


FREE AUDIO RESOURCES

Maz's soft synth page
This page rocks! Maz and Braini have collected here a wealth of info about soft synths, editors, mp3 rippers and converters, trackers, soundcards, as well as Fasttracker instruments and original music for download. Bookmark this one!

Synth Zone Software Synthesis Page
Great list of links to shareware and freeware soft synths for windows and mac. This page is updated regularly, and also features links to other good pages on software synthesis resources.

Software Music Resource
Links to Soft synths, audio editors, cd players etc. Includes pricing and info on each product (many are free and shareware).

Cooledit audio editor homepage
One of the most popular shareware synths around.

Goldwave audio editor homepage

Multiquence audio editor homepage
Functional and free, so they tell me.

Orangator homepage soft synth homepage
My favourite synth at the moment. Ten seperate oscillators, plus you can load 2 wav samples into memory.

VAZ homepage
Vaz is a great soft synth with two oscillators and a built in sequencer. Save your output in realtime too!

FM Dreams

FM synthesizer homepage.

Subastard

Subastard is a cool little program that allows to generate the hard to reach deeeep bass sounds that we all crave.

Analog x Scratch

Got a case of DJ envy? Don't worry with this cool little program from Analog X you'll soon be scratching like a pro, no turntable required.

Synchomatic

A single oscillator synth with attack/decay, overdrive, and a nice filter sweep function.

Drum Synth

A kick ass drum synthesizer that builds sounds out of swept-frequency sine waves, noise bands, pink and white noise and complex waveforms.

Beat Creator

A very simple bass drum and snare drum sample generator.

SimSynth
Simsynth is now freeware! 3 oscillators, several post production effects, stereo sample generation.

Coagula synth homegpage
An image synth: draw your sounds, or convert bitmap images to "music."

Defractor ftp search
A twin oscillator synth with not many effects, but easy to use.

Subsynth
Subsynth is a freeware synth that uses subtractive synthesis - the method used by analogue synthesisers like Moogs and Roland TB303s. Only 74kb to download.

Synthia
Don't know much about this synth, but I think it's freeware.

Rubberduck soft synth homepage
The slogan is "acid for the masses" which about sums up this TR303 emulator.

Zerius vocoder homepage
Really cool vocoder, easy to use.

Zerius graphical front end
Makes zerius a hell of a lot easier to use.

Little Drummer Boy drum machine

Zap's Stomper homepage
Everybody's favourite drum emulator.

Buzz
This plugin based sequencer is set to revolutionise the tracking scene.

Fast Tracker ftp search
Still my tracker of choice. What can I say, I fear change.


MP3 Resources

The Third Layer
This site has everything you need to know about the mp3 audio compression format, including links to all the most popular mp3 players, encoders and decoders.

Winamp
My pick of the mp3 players. Versions 1.92 and higher are capable of decoding mp3 files to wav, so that you can burn tracks to audio cd (under the options/preferences menu select 'Nullsoft Disk Writer Plugin' as your output device)