July 27th, 2011 | 
Author: The digital revolution was certainly an amazing boon to electronic musicians everywhere, but seemed to doom one classic music element for a while. The vinyl recordings that had been a mainstay of the music industry for so long seemed to be going the way of the dinosaur soon enough. But hip-hop musicians found, quite rightly, that there are benefits of sampling off of vinyl.
These benefits go beyond the initial scratching techniques that were developed with long playing records, and go deep into recording techniques themselves. There are two reasons that vinyl remains a great choice for sampling. The first has to do with tonal quality. There is warmth and depth to analog recordings that digital has yet to match. For tonal substance, fresh vinyl comes through.
The second advantage of using records is that there are just so many of them. There are recordings available that go back to the dawn of recording times. The wide variety of artists and genres available on vinyl is truly mind-boggling. The digital world has not been around long enough to even come close to the analog output that has gone before it.
So if an electronic musician is looking for unique samples, that are also sonically sound, he or she will do very well by raiding an old record collection. Vinyl is plentiful, can sound incredible, and can be found inexpensively. They can be a source of an expanded musical array.
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