Hi!

I need help identifying some samples I've had for a long time, as I don't remember which sample libraries they came from and I'd like to get them back. Since I changed the file names and they don't have metadata (like the label or specific year), I don't have any concrete information to determine their origin.

Even so, I can offer some clues to help narrow down the search.

1) I'm sure that at least samples 01, 02, and 03 are from 1998 or earlier, as they appear in two tracks released in 1998.

2) I'm not 100% sure about this, but I'd say that samples 01, 02, and 03 are snippets from longer files, as was common in early sample libraries from the 90s where a single file contained several different samples separated by silences. I think I remember cutting them myself from files of that type. It's possible they came from a Future Music-type sample CD, but I'm not sure (I've listened to some CDs from that magazine, but without success).

3) I know for sure that sample 04 is from before 2001, since it appears in a track released that year. It's possible it came from a Masterbits library, but I'm not certain. This sample is definitely a single file, unlike samples 01, 02, and 03.

4) I have no clues about sample 05—no year, no label, nothing.

You can listen to the samples in this folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pYTNT4vKtmw0vnPJchxGVhMEa0X2g5Bf?usp=drive_link

The tracks containing the samples are:

Samples 1 and 2 (0:00 and 0:50):

Sample 3 (2:19):

Sample 4 (0:18):

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

 

You probably never had names on the samples, because they probably came from samples sold on actual CDs. The first one could be any source really, it has no genre specific aspects that could help you ID it. The second sample in your Gdrive sounds like one of thousands of chopped breakbeats that got released back then, but some easy guesses would be Zero-G Datafile, Jungle Warfare series, or Jungle Frenzy/Jungle Mania. Best Service Dance Mega Jungle, and AMG 160+DB. You could make that break easily if you had some of the original breaks that got chopped up. Or Google Comfybox and there is a big collection of those old sample cds on there.

The last one is chopped from the theme song of The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, pitched down a few semitones. A track that used it is on this mix cd from 94, at 48 minutes and change:

 

The fx's could be anything and looking for them could be as hard as trying to find a needle in a haystack. But to tell you the truth, that sample 4 has to be in any hardcore/jungle sample pack because I've heard it before a lot of times when I listened to those genres everyday (they used a lot of ragga samples). The break loop as well could be in any of those AMG / Best Service / Zero-G that @clone has suggested to you already.
To be honest, in an attempt to try to help you I've spent an hour going through these sample packs I thought they could show up but I had no luck... I'm sorry.