Cool to see another digger that skates, or skater that digs.
you left out the obligatory comparison to e diggers reflippin used samples and gettin mad that SOME people don't respect them cause they don't go to the record stores and work to find their own sounds instead of downloadin all the dope groove albums that they find on those funk/groove blogs
devils advocate argument: how do you know they didn't find the spots/records themselves and work for it?? can you always tell the difference from just experiencing the finished product?? if you can't tell the difference, does it matter??
personally i'll use the internet to find out about dope records and spots (and especially dope record spots!! hahaha), its an awesome resource, but the real fun comes from puttin in the work and doing it yourself, new sounds/spots i find without meaning to find them is the tops, for me at least, if somebody wants to circumvent that, sweet, more for me out in the field, but this verges on over the top in my eyes, similar to sites like whosampled, cause you get that user input, and so what could be a fresh new spot could be blown up quick cause some local kid who lives close enough to the spot to recognize it posts it up
its not that i don't think this information should be shared, but when its on the web its like its etched in stone for eternity, anybody can now search and find that information easily, i don't mind sharing spots and sounds with somebody who expresses genuine interest in it to me in person, but its just different on the internet
Totally, I agree with the majority of what you're saying. I think, with e digging and going to spots that are widely known, it depends on how creative you chop it/skate it. If you do a basic loop with a well known break, or do an easy trick on a known spot, there is going to be disrespect. Personally I don't care if you found the sample in a fucking bin in a dusty basement, I'll still roll my eyes if I hear something I've heard over and over rehashed. Same with vids where everyone's going to the basic LA spots (or east coast spots, bcn spots, etc). BUT if you take what everyone's already seen and attack it in a completely unique way, that is something else and I will respect that for sure (example - Jaws ollieing over the rail at that one spot - not a trick I saw coming).
As far as me, I'm more of a bargain bin diver and I tend to buy records I specifically haven't heard of for the majority of my samples - it might not show in the finished product, but I'm stoked on the process, on driving to some weird flea market and finding something that I can rock that no one I know has bought and that I haven't heard. I do think, though, that it's obvious in skating and digging when you use the same kind of shit everyone's using - oh wow, a perfect handrail, a perfect funk break.
I use the shit out of the net finding record spots, so I'm with you there. Like you said, putting in work can be better. I got a tip for a flea market deal the other day and felt like I'd just got some Russian missile plans haha. And finding a crazy thrift store when you get off the highway to piss is a feeling that's hard to describe to someone that doesn't 'hunt.'
Just like skating, everything has been used by someone else at some point though. And in my opinion that's cool, but it depends on the extent you're rehashing old stuff, like I said above blah blah blah. I do use the internet for drums if I'm lazy tho, so, guilty.
And what you put in bold is the truth! I'm out there too. Fools can do what fools do, I'll still be playing the game, skating and digging, as long as I can.
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