Since @evilchili brought up the birthday of this album, here's a nice breakdown of some of the recording techniques and equipment behind Portishead's "Dummy"
Warning: contains lots of ads
https://reverb.com/news/making-portishead-dummy-production-experiments-trip-hop-classic
@djsundog @evilchili best story I heard from recording of 2nd album was:
After criticism for using so many borrowed samples on Dummy they recorded their own vinyl and used it for sampling and scratching