The story behind the vinyl in this picture is kind of cool (at least to me). So my father-in-law gave me all of his records a few years back since he was losing his hearing. He is now in the hospital after having a stroke so, he’s definitely on my mind, which made me pull these records back out to start sampling them again. A lot of the 45’s were bought when he still lived in Pakistan (he came over here to go to med school in the 60’s and ended up staying) so, they’re old but have some really cool stuff on them. He has an interesting story: was born in India before Pakistan even existed and made the harrowing crossing of the new border when India was split up between the Hindus (India) and the Muslims (Pakistan). He was 16 and saw all sorts of atrocities (and lots of dead people all along the way). He came over here, became a doctor, met his wife, had 4 daughters and eventually welcomed me into his family. Anyway, these records are providing hours of sampler material to feed into the OT, DT, and OP-1 and I’m inspired to create something he would enjoy if he could still listen to music for pleasure. He used to record Pakistani or Indian musicians with his reel to reel and two Sony F87 microphones (one of which still works which he gave to me, I wish he still had that reel to reel). Anyway, does anyone else have records or other sources of samples that are particularly inspiring? Also, I would love to share this stuff but need to know the best way to do it legally, some of these records are really old so I don’t see it being a problem to upload them as samples but some of them are questionable. Any advice on that front would be welcome. Tons of sitar stuff that you probably won’t find anywhere else (with authentic vinyl crackle on some of them!). Thanks for reading…
Hope your father in laws situation gets better. Sounds like he made a great life for himself. Look forward to hearing your results with all that material!!
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Why didn’t this thread get more traction?
@DaveMech does the laundry.
Seriously, I’m interested in seeing how rando knuckleheads have gone about producing innovative samples and documented the process.
I love the Dave Mech laundromat idea and somebody posted (in a different thread) showing a great finished youtube video of a guy using nothing but springy door stops to produce a Michael Jackson cover.
F’ing brilliant example(s).
Got a whole bunch of these on my channel ! 
Here’s the playlist. Most are quite old though. New ones coming for sure.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQHTCZnCJCgloitWOemxaOtQ1v2FrlUJ_&si=Hw1XpVCoXz6gLrdP
Nice! I missed those. There’s not enough hours in the day for what the interwebs have to offer.
