Let's say you're an electronic music artist or a hip-hop producer, and you're looking for a sample to anchor your next song. What do you pick? Average White Band? Yeah, you and everyone else. Rush? Danny Brown ruined those "Tom Sawyer" drums for everyone else.
Why not sample the sound of surgery, or your own face, or if you'd like to stick to sampling "songs," just for the challenge, why not reach for a Hawkwind deep cut, or base your slow, smoked-out hip-hop song on a Tom Waits sample.
Here are a few songs with surprising source material.