Quote Originally Posted by Analog.1
Ive been listening to some oldish minimal techno and i just cant figure out how they make that special underground percussion sound, Ive got a feeling some of those tracks use bongos / congos that are filtered in a very special way so you only hear certain frequencies of the harmonics... and it makes the percussion sound like human voices..... Does anybody know what im talking about or have i just lost the plot?
There could b 1000's of factors that make up THAT sound. I'm guessin a lot of analogue is part of it. Also a lot of downgraded samples were more commonly used. For example early akai and Emu samplers would only sample at 12bit. This grunged up the sound.

Try downgrading your sounds with a bit crusher, then filter out any unwanted noise. Not sure if that's exactly what your after though. Clever use of distortion will also help :)