There's a trick to getting proper 8-bit crunch out of samples, but that's a secret I'm not giving up just yet ;-)
I had an Emax II that I swapped for an Ensoniq EPS...
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We use the Akai S-1000 for making crunchy drum kits, the S-3000 for sharp vocals and have a Sequential Prophet 2000 that has some excellent analogue filters and is very good at crunching samples when you use the bit rate converter. We have also just bought an Emu unit but not had a chance to try it out yet. If you want lo-fi with body then go for the Prophet-2000, you could pick one up for around £100-£150 and the unit is built like a tank with a very good and responsive keyboard.
I'd love to see where you're picking up P2000s for £150. Last one I saw went on eBay for about £400 (overpriced, I thought). You can pick up a Mirage for about that though, or the considerably rarer Ensoniq SDP which is a Mirage with the samples in ROM as far as I can tell.
Has any one got any words that they sample andreverse to get different words? I have a few strange ones in my machines and will try to dig them out and post them up, there are some strange things that happen when you reverse words.
Ever heard "Don't Stop" by The Stone Roses? If you reverse it, it sounds like "Waterfall". That's because if you reverse "Waterfall" and write down what the words sound like, then sing it and play the chords backwards you get "Don't Stop" ;-)
Of course "Full Fathom Five" was actually just "Elephant Stone" played backwards...