I've been doing the whole sampling thing for about 6-7 years now and one thing that I've noticed is that when I find a style of music I tend to stick to it for a while often sampling the same artist or the genre for long periods of time. Over about the past 2 years I've been going into record shops on the distinct mission of finding new and fresh artists and music types/genres to sample from while continuously trying to reinvent myself until I hit more major label opportunities. This usually just leaves me literally iny miny myny moeing my records for hours until I come across something different which can get expensive to say the least...

So my question to you all is how you particularily keep finding new and interesting samples outside of your comfort zone if you ever leave it? Because I've got a list of 100's of soul and jazz artists to sample (growing up in Detroit you hear it all the time) but what particular methods do you use to pick out new records?