Splice Explores

Field recorders in hand, musicians, producers, and sound artists Krishna Jhaveri and Sanaya Ardeshir (aka Sandunes) spent 30 days traveling through South India to capture the land’s sounds. From South Goa through Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, they drove through farms, plantations, and forests in search of sonic signatures of the remaining wild spaces they could access.

Through this expedition, they stumbled upon a collection of soundscapes bursting with life—mating rituals, alarm calls, and circadian rhythms of a plethora of Indian species in their natural habitats. The result was this inspiring set of audible rhythms, melodies, and textures—all markers of the thriving biodiversity of the region.

Jhaveri and Ardeshir also teamed up with music producer, Parimal Shais who documents and samples traditional South Indian instruments. Shais recorded a variety of traditional horns, drums, percussion, strings, and voice to capture and represent the human element amidst the naturally occurring sounds in this pack. This collection is intended to serve as a way to connect with the nature that is thriving and start a conversation about the environment and hopefully inspire climate action.

Picture the scene, you’re a producer sitting down to your DAW thinking, “Well why I don't I just end this beautiful sonic palette I've delicately crafted right here”. Yes, we agree that’s a perfectly fine and truthfully boring way to end your masterpiece. While some producers choose polish and beauty, Brighton UK based producer Samuel Organ chooses real, edgy, and deeply distorted. Along with his co-producer Slugabed, the two take a hard left turn away from the safe journey through the village of Little Familiarity, and veer wildly off-course towards utter chaos with an unhinged sample pack containing but not limited to scrape, fwanggggg, skrit and pip-pip-pip WHACK!

Splice Explores: Guitar SFX is a deep and twisted exploration into the furthest distorted realms of the electric guitar. Prepare yourself to greedily rip through edgy drums, gargling bass, and warped drones all made entirely from the electric guitar run through a variety of effects. It’s loud, gritty, dirty, and tons of fun. How far can one instrument go? Crack open this deadly sample pack and find out…

Splice Explores: Natural Reverbs is based on the idea of music responding to nature. Producer Charles Van Kirk collaborating with musician Julia Easterlin visited three distinct outdoor environments in Midcoast Maine - granite quarries, forests and a sea cave, and wrote short pieces of music inspired by the natural acoustic properties of each space. The duo used their voices, percussion, melodica, and a baritone ukulele to explore their acoustic surroundings and create a beautifully spacious yet intimate collection of music.