Sia, Take a Daytrip, Just Blaze lead Native Instruments’ COMMUNITY DRIVE charity sound pack to raise money for COVID-19 relief
Native Instruments commits €100,000 to seven charity partners benefitting musicians worldwide
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All funds raised will be divided among the following organizations that are helping our community during the current situation: Grammy MusiCares Fund, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, Musicians Without Borders , Keychange, Kuumba in Motion Expressing Transformation, In Place Of War, Heart N Soul.
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Nine-time Grammy nominee Sia, hitmaking production duo Take A Daytrip (Lil Nas X, Travis Scott & Kid Cudi) and hip-hop legend Just Blaze ( Jay-Z, Eminem ) are three of the 14 genre-defining artists across the musical spectrum who’ve contributed exclusive audio stems, samples and production kits to the music community via COMMUNITY DRIVE. The free charity sound pack is available today via Native Instruments.
Community Drive was created as a collaboration with the artist community both as a way to raise funds for the thousands of musicians still in urgent economic need from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and as a free resource for musicians to stay creative during quarantine. As part of the campaign, Native Instruments today announces a €100,000 donation distributed evenly across seven global charities.
The organizations were chosen in collaboration with many of Community Drive’s artist partners, and are closely aligned with the company’s core values of supporting musicians from all backgrounds: The MusiCares Covid-19 Relief Fund (USA), Musicians Without Borders (NL), Keychange (EU), Black Trans Femmes in the Arts (USA), KUUMBA In Motion (USA), In Place Of War (UK) and Heart N Soul (UK.) Though the sounds on the Community Drive sound pack are free, Native Instruments users are also encouraged to make additional donations to the participating organizations via GoFundMe.
Community Drive’s exclusive content features over 200 samples, 67 loops, 35 kits and 58 presets. Participating musicians and exclusive sounds include: Sia, Take A Daytrip’s No Idle Crew, Just Blaze, Richard Devine, Miquela, DJ Dahi, BT, Philomene Tsongui, Junkie XL, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Peaches, Laurel Halo and Kimbra.
“We’re beyond excited to present this incredible collection of sounds, created by a talented and generous group of artists from across the musical spectrum,” says Constantin Koehncke, Global Marketing Director at Native Instruments. “We hope that music makers everywhere will enjoy creating with fresh sounds from Grammy-winning stars and hip hop legends, to Hollywood composers and electronic innovators – and we can’t wait to hear the results. Most importantly, we hope that it will inspire some to donate, so that together we can make an impact in supporting musicians everywhere.
We’ve all seen how hard the music community has been hit by COVID-19. But we’ve also seen how the community can come together to support each other when it’s most needed.”
“We‘ve always aimed to make the word feel smaller through music—to connect people in unexp