we do, we all have zoom recorders, me and ali have the z2 i guess, the smaller, handier one, but tom (phuture-t) has one that looks like a fucking piece of fighter jet console, you know like from top gun, just rip one of those modules out of the panel and you have tommys fucking monster of a recorder. its about the size of a vhs video cassette with a big fuck off orange black GUI. its brilliant.
but we also sample from vinyl and tape, get breaks from vinyl, like i moved into my current place and for some reason found a 7" with think on it?? haha so we have that recorded, straight to revox tape, through hanses soundcraft desk, on a few different speeds, pitch, and gain levels.
we had a compo a few years ago on here with only sounds you recorded yourself allowed. like found sounds, not smaples of other songs, it was pretty good! was amazing acutally.
anyway we really value the craft of making a tune with completely original sounds that we recorded ourselves, thats why we all are starting to amass quite a bit of weird percussion, shakers, cymbals, and more, i got guitars and an harmonica and and a flute and i think hans got temple blocks haha (temple blocks is like a xylophone but with bricks made of wood instead, and they differ in pitch depending on how hollowed out they been, it sounds good, but really hasnt been very great to use in songs, the funniest thing is hans (grits) had to study playing them on a univeristy level haha and its shit difficult to play, thats what the funniest bit is) but yeah recording your own sounds is brilliant, and if you want to develop your sound, you should just go ahead and do it, then spice it up with processing as much as you need, but its really a thing, doing songs with only sounds you recorded yourself.
its also fun to source your own samples, but at the same time i feel you shouldnt have to go to far with it, i remember klute saying him and his crew would only use breaks from the first edition vinyl 7"s, otherwise they simply wouldnt do it, and its easy to get that way once you start, but its silly. ill sample from an 128 kbps mp3 if it does what i want it do, i dont care, im really over that purist phase. ill never stop striving for originality and detailed craftmanship in my work, both of which take up like 120% of my capacity and both of which the listener couldnt give a fuck less about, but its not about that, its about making art the way you feel your art, as in how you want to express yourself artistically, has to be made. you feel it inside, and its impossible to get away from or probably even explain, but i think you know what i mean
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