What do you guys do with...

What do you guys do with the records that have absolutely nothing on them. Do you throw them away or keep and let them grow dust? I'm just curious because I have a lot.

Well if they absolutely have nothing you can use on them. You can try to sell them to a record store that buys used records. They might even accept trades.

Send them to me.

I can't believe you have lots of records with absolutely no sounds you can use on them!!! Seriously, they really don't have one little snare roll at the start of a track or a few nice chords????.... or a fade out at the end where instruments blur together??? Are they just speech then? Is there not a few words you can extract. Maybe chop out individual words from different tracks & create a your own vocal track ..... hell, why not chop out individual syllables & create your own language!!!!

I'm thinking.......
A:- Make sure your turntable is plugged in properly if you are not hearing anything.
B:- Open your ears & your mind while you listen. Don't think that because a record doesn't have black guys with big afros & mutton-chop sideburns wearing velvet suits with big tulip collars & platform spoon shoes on the cover that it won't have sounds you can sample.

Unless what you are saying is that they are too badly scratched to play without ruining your stylus ..... in which case throw them out.

I hate when I gotta throw away a good record cause its so badly scratched!

featherboy wrote: Don't think that because a record doesn't have black guys with big afros & mutton-chop sideburns wearing velvet suits with big tulip collars & platform spoon shoes on the cover that it won't have sounds you can sample.

WTF?That's an ignorant comment bro.

i think you just need to study more your art of sampling and there are things you can use like featherboy , theres no record out there you cant use a peice of. study your records just throw it on and listen to it listen in your sleep ,when your phucken, showering ,shting and eating.

Stryke ....... I find a lot of guys just getting into digging for samples seem to think you have to use funk, soul & jazz records recorded between 1969 & 1977. I'd already said I didn't believe he had loads of records with absolutely no sound he could use & maybe his turntable wasn't working if he couldn't hear their potential.

I didn't think that comment was controversial.

I was just messin' with you.I saw it and thought i would start a little trouble.

....... A bit of Trans-Atlantic e-arm wrestling ?!?!

1........2........3............Go!

Maybe Beat Conductor just can't find any sounds that HE personally wants to use, or that fit his style.

I always come up with records that I wouldn't want to use in my stuff.

That doesn't mean that someone else wouldn't wanna use it in their tracks.

That's why I either give those records away to an individual, or donate em back to the thrift store. (unless it's something "sellable" on eBay)

Please, don't throw them in the garbage.

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Scratch magazine : A lot of times people will be digging, pick up a record and immediately say, "Ah, there's nothing on that!"


Madlib : I bet I'll find something on it! That happens all the time. I was digging with Cut Chemist and all them in Brazil. I was pulling out whatever, crazy-ass records, and ****** was like, "There ain't gonna be nothing on that record." I made a whole beat tape, they was tripping. That's the most records I ever bought in my life, right there. I spent like five Gs on shit you ain't never gonna see, and most of them didn't even get here. I had two boxes that got lost. Nobody knows where they are.

itchyvinyl is on the same track as me...