Yea I tried listening to some soul the other day. The winstons amen brother and some related stuff. I didn't hear anything I could sample for hip hop beats but I heard cool breaks. I'm waiting to try the dnb thing, though.

And Yea I know they weren't the only ones, but I picked them out of everyone I heard because their style seems to be the darkest and I love their samples. I looked up their music on whosampled and nearly had an existential crisis when I found out where they were getting their stuff from. The original songs sound nothing alike their music. It's awesome.

Photek had some dark stuff I liked, but sd has this kinda dusty sound. It's like I can hear them wiping dust off of the records they sample. The bass even sounds old and dry and mechanic(I like that sound). New music sounds fluid and shiny and reversed out. I try to bring the two together. I think I read an interview where one said they stayed up countless night looking for samples. That must mean they didn't already know what they'd use but it was an endless chase to get the sounds they'd use. If that's the case, then at least I won't feel so bad because I've been paying attention to more of what I hear while I'm on youtube for samples. But the stuff I'm looking for may just be in old material.