u/Bowlfood

Here's a thread for sharing some of your hidden gem websites for sampling & beat culture stuff.

Feel free to add to this thread with your favourite spots. I'm always keen to find new/old/hidden bits of wisdom & collections of niche resources.

Here's my 2 main ones:

• Rhythm Lab breakbeat collection - Hundreds, possibly thousands of breaks in 16bit, 44.1khz wavs and rex formats for the old junglist heads.
• Deepsound sample calculators - A series of calculators that are a great support for gear like the Digitakt or old Electribes. This place makes the fussy sample tweaking process quick & painless. Wanna know how how much pitch tuning's needed to hit the right tempo? It's here. Wanna know a sample's tempo based on its sample rate & duration? It's here.

Hey there creators,

If you need something to nod along to then we're going deep into the archives here with a couple of cassettes I recorded as a radio obsessed teenager.

DJ Shadow - Live @ Benicàssim Festival 2002

Resin Dogs - Live At The Wireless 9th December 2000

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A little background...

Shadow's set is from the same tour that lead to the In Tune & On Time Live album, check the link for the tracklist, there's a couple of special bits in it.

Stupid bit of nostalgia associated with that set - a mate & I were going to travel from where we lived in northern NSW to Sydney for the show instead of going to schoolies (the Aus version of the high school completion party). But in December of 2002 Sydney was cut off from the world due to massive bushfires. So we'd each blown like $150 on tickets, trains & accommodation, serious cash in those days. So we got stupidly drunk with some random fellow schoolies who'd escaped Sydney just before the fires & were stuck in our home town.

The Resin Dogs were a hip hop production group from Brisbane that overlapped with funk & trip hop. I swear they're better than that reads. They started in the mid 90s as a duo that quickly turned into a proper band and found some pretty serious backing with Virgin Records, who even helped them set up an imprint label. Despite all that, Virgin didn't believe the Resin Dogs knew how to run a studio & insisted that they use an outside producer. So the dogs picked Robert Reed from Trouble Funk. Their first album (Grand Theft Audio, released in 2000) turned out great, but left them with a lot of debt and almost no support from the Virgin. The band pushed on for another decade or so, never hitting the same levels of hype before fizzling out. Some of the members went on to play in & with notable Australian bands like Wolfmother, Regurgitator, Butterfingers & Pangaea.

To the side of the Resin Dogs, the 2 main members of the group (DJ Katch & Dave Atkins) kept their original vision going as the 2 Dogs. This set is by them. There was a 2nd hour of this mix broadcast I recorded, but stupidly dubbed the same hour twice when attempting to back up the cassette a year or so after recording the set. Don't know what happened to the original cassette. Pity.

While most of you will be more interested in Shadow's mix, I reckon the best stuff's in the Resin Dog's set.