what yall look 4 when diggin?

i look for any ish that has an old dusty, jazzy piano cos im all about them keys

drumtrack wrote:i
.. digging is 50% luck .... if not more ...

I dont't think so, if you have a possibility to listen to the records in the shop there is no luck, and if you dig long enough you just have to look at the cover or the artist or the label to know if there are "good" sounds on it...

...the only factor of luck is where you start diggin in the store, u will always oversee good records, if the store is big...

im talking about flea markets and small dusty shops. Ill never go shopping for sampling material in an specialized record shop.
if you can hear the records you will need some luck too because I dont have time to listen to the entire album all the time. I ll just needle drop and when it sounds nice ill take it and silently hope for more sounds to be discovered on the record at home.

sure, but I think if you dig a few years you can lower the "coincidence" because of your experiences of your older digging-sessions - so you know where you can find sounds/samples that you like or that you might use...even if you can't hear the records...so 50% luck or more is extrem, I think...

...it has much to do with personal music-taste, I know that an old record that I don't like do not have many samples wich I might use, and weather I like a record I see on the cover, genre etc...so you can minimise the luck, and if the music is good, I always find pieces to sample...

The 5 Lp's for a buck bins...Dig that ish up to China

If Im spending 6.00$ or more its gotta be something I know will be ill...

I find any record can be usefull in a way
Lately into Jazz-Upright stuff and Latin Breaks

I look for anything that I've never seen or heard of usually. Crazy artwork on the cover will get me everytime too. I grab all types of shit though.
25 cent bins are the shit

I like to stay in the 49 and 99 cent bins. Every now and then I will pick up something for $4 - $9 (most of the time repress) if it is rare and I can't find it I purchase from DustyGroove. I mainly go for what is on the cover and the date. A lot of the stuff from the 80s was crap and if you are selling beats you are more than likely to find a hard time clearing a sample from the 80s (Billy Joel would be a good example). I have found good samples off of old Kenny Loggins albums from the 70s the type of stuff most diggers would overlook. I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I like hot butter on my breakfast toast. . .

for the people like me who only got dollar records at goodwill/flea markets

i dont care about the price
i look for a good cover
i check the date
i check the instruments out + genre + song titles = this is a big one it shows what the person or group is about and how they express it

last but not least
check the record make sure that shit will play when u get home if somethin has one big scratch on any song i havent heard yet i leave it...could be the best shit to sample but if that shits skippin all over the place ull be **** up til u find it again

i was in a record shop and i went in looking for classical stuff, pianos, violings, opera stuff, and my brother shouted over to me and this whole wall was labeled "classical" and subdivided into violin, guitar, piano, opera, etc. So i looked at the prices and they were all 2 bucks and there were so many. So i just grabbed a bunch of random ones since i couldnt listen and anything that looked cool. some names were familiar so i grabbed those, and then at the end i had a stack of like 50 and cut it down after reading through and the back covers saying whats in emm, and i got home and some are decent, some are real good, and others are just garbage. But for 2 bucks a piece i really didn't care. So next time I'll think of a certain type of genre or sound and just go there and grab a bunch of random ish again and hope for the best...

no label diggin

i mean blue note is a given

but thier are some misses

their not all hits

i learned that diggin by label is not a good thing cause thier are always under artists that dont get more then so meny records printed


year is probably one of the best things to judge by

i love shi' from the early and mid 70's cause all that shit got the dirty jazzy soul vibes

but thats just for now