About

About Samples From Mars

Samples From Mars is a sample label based in Brooklyn, NYC founded by producer / engineer Teddy Stuart in 2013. The team at SFM focuses on capturing the beauty of vintage (and often rare) machines through high end hardware, consoles, tape machines, vinyl and more, in order to create the highest quality, most useable, affordable and inspiring sample-based instruments possible.

Over the past decade SFM has grown from a single person, bedroom operation into a team of sound designers who have created a massive, industry-standard sample library of vintage electronic and vinyl instruments. In addition to reaching hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, Samples From Mars has provided sounds for iconic companies such as Teenage Engineering, Elektron, Arturia, Akai and more.

Building software instruments out of rare gear is somewhat of a self-taught, dark art, and it's no secret that it can be a quite laborious process. Each sound is hand crafted and a huge amount of thought, time, care, experimentation, and inspiration goes into every step of the process. We strive for nothing short of perfection, aiming to capture the original essence of a drum machine, but to also flip that sound on its head and create something entirely different (and sometimes contradictory) to what the original machine intended. Making it not just a sample, but a Sample *From Mars 👽

Our intention is not just to create instruments for your music, but to share the history of these iconic (and sometimes forgotten) pieces of gear, their role in music, how we go about using them, and what that might mean for your music. This is not just a place for nostalgia - we are truly focused on bringing these sounds into useable, modern contexts, and imparting our own signature sound along the way.

I'm an obsessed perfectionist and I spend every day working with this gear - I've spent tens of thousands of hours perfecting my signal chain (and spending a small fortune in the process) and Samples From Mars is my chance to share this experience with you.

Please let us know any comments you might have and any suggestions you'd like to make - you can contact us here.

Production

Teddy Stuart (formerly known as Eddie Mars) is a producer, engineer, sound designer and DJ from Brooklyn, NYC. Cutting his teeth as a top-40 engineer in the major label hip hop world (garnering credits on several grammy nominated songs), Teddy ultimately gave this up to focus on the more underground efforts of house, techno and disco.

As a solo Artist, DJ, Producer and one half of a/jus/ted, he's produced original music, written and released records on labels such as Warp Records, Domino Records, DFA Records, Southern Fried, Uno NYC and more. His music consistently receives praise from Pitchfork and support from artists such as Andrew Weatherall, Tensnake, Mark Knight, and others.

Since then, he's turned Samples From Mars into a record label, creating original projects such as Video Burnout, Salt Queen (forthcoming), Rhythm is Love (forthcoming) and producing / engineering for artists such as Jamie Principle, Overmono, the Martinez Brothers and more.