Ronin wrote:Scoobylol, I have a couple reason's as to why I can not goto a vinyl shop & dig, primarily financial reasons. Maybe I worded my question wrong, or you're just having a crappy day, but again I am not asking for people to just hand me samples. I am asking for specific artist's that kats like so I could check em out and find some gem's. I am not looking for a particular sound, or genre, I am just looking for a point in the right direction so I could start diggy diggin until I am on my feet enough to do some actual diggin. again, sorry if for whatever reason I rubbed you the wrong way.
I think what he's saying is
"you gotta put your own work in". There are no shortcuts. If you need something to sample, go find something to sample. If you broke, then find out where you can download free mp3s off the internet and get your digital digg on...
Seriously, he's not being an ass, but it just gets annoying when we put years in finding samples, listening to different genres and eras of music, getting familiar with the artists, studio musicians, producers, studios and labels that produced all this music that we are sampling, and then you wanna ask people to just give that knowledge away for nothing. Hell nah...
Really, there are no shortcuts, because if you're not familiar with the history of recorded music then your samples (and your sampling skills) are always gonna be short. There's a certain bit of luck to finding a good sample, but there is some technique involved too.
Here's what you do: Figure out some old school artists or songs that you know of or like. You can use itunes music store or youtube to preview songs from millions of different artists if you really have no clue. Then, find out where to download them from for free. They're all over the place you just gotta look (use google and be patient)... Download them. Wherever you download them from will probably have similar artists or songs. Download some cats you never heard of too, while you're there. Listen to them all (not just skimming for samples, but actually listening to the music and dissecting it and understanding it). The ones you like, get on the internet and learn about the artist, the producer, the label, the studio they recorded in, the other musicians on the record, and every and anything else you can about the music. Then take that knowledge and go back and look for similar artists, look for artists from the same label or era, look for other records that the guitarist or keyboard player appeared on, or other records that the producer produced. Rinse and repeat.
In a year you'll have more samples than you can shake a stick at. But if we sit here and give you artists or songs to sample, then what you gonna do after you sample them all? Come back and ask for more? Its called "teach a man to fish". You gotta put your own work in homie.
again, maybe my wording was not precise enough. I am not looking for samples like loops and such. I was referring to instrument samples. but to kill all the negative vibes and tensions, I'll take what you all have said to heart. Preciate giving me advice.