do any of you do this 2??

I bought myself a wifi radio (iblick) with over 11000 stations on it, I bought it with the intention of sampling some crazy music from random countries, only thing is, I've had it 2 days now and not managed to find anything that is making me wanna press record on my mpc. Does anyone know any good stations that play good music to sample??? I had this dream that I was gonna find a station playing non stop library records and old french breaks..then I jizzed in my pants, then I woke up and my radio was next to me still playing non sampleable music.

any suggestions would be cool but please don't start telling me to go out and buy records cos it's obvious I dont have the money right now if i'm going to these lengths.

cheers

my suggestion, is for you to open your mind.


with 11,000 stations. and you cannot find anything to sample.

something is wrong

Lord Toranaga wrote:with 11,000 stations. and you cannot find anything to sample. something is wrong

Basically,

I'll try doing that. Thank you for your reply.

a little advice...

what sounds like a wack sample today might be the dopest sh*t you ever hear later on. Sometimes if your not in the right mindset everything sounds unusable. This is why I keep track of records I play and sample. It almost never fails that I find something sick the next time i revisit.

You might want to at least get the whole song and save it for a later date. After a while youll have a huge folder with some potential gems in there.

yeah I get ya, same thing happens for me. it's usually when I'm no where near my mpc that I hear something and wanna sample it. I wasn't saying that I haven't found anything to sample or anything interesting but I haven't really found something that I would go crazy over. I will usually try and make a beat from absolutely ANYTHING but the last few days I've wanted to find what one would prob call a typical track to sample from.

anyway...

Actually Exile made a whole record this way - it's called "Radio" and it's incredibly D O P E.

I would stay glued to the radio all week 24/7. Most dope instrumentals are played during the late night. Find out the timeframes of those countries, and their customs for playing music, some countries might prohibit music at night.

cool idea though hope it starts working out for ya.

totally agree with pounda, sometimes shit you would never sample sounds like gold upon second listen.

jsills wrote:cool idea though hope it starts working out for ya.

totally agree with pounda, sometimes **** you would never sample sounds like gold upon second listen.

That's why I love sampling, its always a new experience..I sometimes go through my old beats and use the same samples and create somethin totally different with the same shit

I dont have a wifi...but I do have an old vintage transistor radio thats hand held that I record things like Talk radio, and news commentary from.

Finding good radio is a little more complicated than just tuning in. All radio stations have schedules, you need to do a little homework to find DJs that spin the types of music you are looking for.

Two of my favorite stations:

http://www.wnur.org/
http://www.wfmu.org/

Also try: http://www.radio-locator.com/

Return your iblick back to the store, and log onto:
http://www.live365.com/index.live

U tryin to hard, leave that radio alone for a while do something else come back to it later.

itunes has stations that play anything you want to hear ,at any time.
and it's free,

get a field recorder and sample outside stuff and tweak it in ur mpc!


man with 11,000 stations u can't get any insparation really? that sux.

i've been wanting one of those radios ,just to listen to somethign other then american radio american radio sux ass

No joke, I really like the whole idea. Can anyone recommend a good radio hardware piece that would be able to do something like that well?