The complete sound library from the "Joachim Garraud & Friends" album: the 90s rave spirit in your DAW

Over 300 samples, over 1 GB of sounds, just €4.99. A gem for all electronic music producers — and the natural extension of an extraordinary collaborative adventure recounted in I Love My DJ Life, the book by Joachim Garraud.

👉 Download the sound bank (€4.99)

🔊 What the sound bank contains

Conceived by Joachim Garraud and the co-composers of the Joachim Garraud & Friends album (released in 2024), this collection gathers over 300 samples inspired by 90s techno sounds, for over 1 GB of original and authentic WAV files:

• Kicks, basses, and drums ready to hit (132 to 140 BPM): tonal kicks, acid bass, TB-303 one-shots, and loops

• Full rhythmic loops (RYTHM 01 to 24, 131–140 BPM) to lay down a club foundation in seconds

• Rave stabs, synth leads, pads, and French Touch-style chords

• FX and signature elements: risers, white noise builds, reverse crashes, impacts, vocal shots ("We Are Back"!), and file names that seem to be nods to the album's contributors (LUQUET LEAD, JONCOUR, ARKISKA, T99 ANASTASIA…)

Each file is named, tempo-labeled, and organized for immediate use in Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, or any other DAW. An ideal resource to enrich your productions with textures and sound elements signed by recognized artists, at a price that defies any serious competition: €4.99.

🛸 The story behind these sounds: an album made by and for the community

These samples don't come from an anonymous lab: they are extracted from a unique human adventure, told in full in I Love My DJ Life, the book by Joachim Garraud (available here).

In an unprecedented collaborative approach, Joachim and the Space Invaders community embarked on an ambitious musical project: the creation of a double vinyl album inspired by the revolutionary sounds of the years 1988 to 1994. Born from livestreams launched during the Covid crisis, the project found its stage on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Discord: with over 1,200 active members on Discord, the community became a pool where every idea found an echo and every contribution took shape. Approximately 300 producers collaborated closely, guided by Joachim during live composition sessions: everyone brought their personal touch, chose samples, and contributed to the crucial decisions for each track, while Joachim shared his knowledge via instructional videos on mixing and mastering. The community even collectively decided on the visuals, titles, and artistic directions, creating an evocative visual identity inspired by spaceships. At the end of the adventure, around 40 co-composers, the majority of whom had never gone beyond the hobby stage, were registered with SACEM and co-sign their first track alongside Joachim (Discogs).

On June 15, 2024, the album even had its own stage (the Green Stage) at the Elektric Park festival, where the co-composers took turns all day long in front of thousands of festival-goers — for many, a first of rare intensity. The collaborative album, inspired by the revolutionary sounds of 1988 to 1994, was also pressed on numbered collector's double vinyl, in a limited edition of 300 copies (Discogs) and is available to stream with its 16 tracks (Spotify).

By purchasing this sound bank, you aren't just downloading a simple pack: you are acquiring the sonic DNA of an album co-created by a community, designed by a producer who has been working with these machines for forty years.

👥 The project's collaborators

The Joachim Garraud & Friends album is the collective work of around 40 co-composers from the Space Invaders community, supervised by Joachim Garraud. According to the official credits printed on the double vinyl jacket:

The artists who collaborated on this album are:

Alex Brandi, Older Ground, Vessano, Alan. V, Onirik Dreamer, Lawbass, Arkiska, Marcovitch, Montekrysto, Luke Kay, Jean Anza, Seb Kicker, Project Manolo, Chris Nateg, Chloé Deroy, John Cost, Paul Thenail, Evan Gastel, Jo Laer, St3phy P, Emmanuel Lagarde, Gigi Romeo, Ocin J, Morris D&D, Shadow

Illustrator: Benoit Berthonnaud

Acknowledgements: Benoit Berthonnaud, Alexandre Baudin-Briand, Christophe Cousin, Arnaut Bouvry, Alan Vindevogel, Karim Ajroud, Laurent Ducrop, Pierre-Yves Frioud, Marc Lagier, Chloé Deroy, Jonathan Costanza, Paul Thenail, Éric Ternet, Stéphane Pavard, Christophe Billet, Emmanuel Lagarde, Géraldine Germani, Nicolas Joncour, Damien Duarte, Julien Machado, Julien Stackler, Sylvain Huvenoit

Composition, production, mixing and mastering: Joachim Garraud for UndGrdMusic — Publishing: Square Rivoli Publishing 2024 — Numbered pressing limited to 300 copies, May 2024

These co-composers, most of whom had never gone beyond the hobbyist stage, went from amateurs to artists featured on a commercially distributed album in a matter of weeks — a unique stepping stone towards possible careers.

And a fun touch: some names in the sound bank use those of the album's contributors — JG_FRDS_LEAD_JONCOUR (Nicolas Joncour), JG_FRDS_CHORDS_ARKISKA (Arkiska), JG_FRDS_LUQUET_LEAD… so many signatures hidden within the files.

🎹 Forty years of expertise in every sample

Joachim Garraud literally grew up with the machines that defined the 90s sound. As he recounts in I Love My DJ Life (order here), he bought his Roland TB-303, the famous box that gave birth to acid house, and spent nights on the Atari and Akai S1000 sampler crafting sound by digging through vinyl records. No sample banks back then: everything was done by ear, with a microphone, at nightfall.

This is exactly the state of mind this bank breathes: kicks that slam like at the Rex, rave stabs worthy of 1992 rave parties, acid loops that twist the spectrum — all produced with the care of a sound craftsman who has remixed and produced for David Guetta, Jean-Michel Jarre, Bob Sinclar, Kylie Minogue, Cerrone, Deep Dish, or even Moby (Wikipedia), and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006 for the remix of Deep Dish's Flashdance (Wikipedia).

📖 The next step: I Love My DJ Life, the interactive book

The sound bank puts the sound in your hands. To understand where these sounds come from, there is I Love My DJ Life, Joachim Garraud's interactive autobiography:

• 528 pages retracing 40 years of electronic music, from the early days of mobile disco in a Nantes garage to the world's biggest stages

• 590 QR codes providing access to exclusive audio and video archives, and an online Geek Zone updated monthly with partner pCloud

• More than 70 testimonials from artists: Laurent Garnier, Vitalic, Laidback Luke, Benny Benassi, Jean-Michel Jarre, David Guetta, Arno Cost, Norman Doray… (CHAOS)

• A collector's edition limited to 500 numbered copies (Just Music)

• An act of solidarity: 100% of profits are donated to the A.R.T.u.R. association, dedicated to kidney cancer research, in tribute to Fred Rister, a lifelong accomplice who passed away in 2019 (GuettaPen)

👉 Order the book I Love My DJ Life (€99.99)

It's the book you have to read once you've already hooked up the samples: the true story of the machines, pirate radios, the French Touch, and the night the Swedish Mafia (before they were the House Mafia) broke into the backstage of Radio FG.

👉 Discover the book I Love My DJ Life

✅ In summary

Start with the sound bank. Finish with the book. In either case, you are buying much more than a product: a piece of electronic music history, signed by the one who wrote it.

🛒 Sound Bank — €4.99 | 📖 I Love My DJ Life Book — €99.99 | 🎵 The album on Spotify