Hey yeah I have used vocals, either my own or a sample, but only ever twice. 99.99% of all my tunes were built bit by bit by me, so I don't use whole drum beats/samples/loops .. I build each drum loop or beat pattern out of individual component noises like lego, same with any baseline or melody or any layer at all, i make them all myself, i dont just copy some baseline from an old dub reggae tune or sample some hip-hop tunes phatty beat. i make them all from scratch.
1st time, these are my vocals and my whistling, and a layer that sounds like a very long deepish ''ooooooooooooohhhhoooooooooo'' sorta noise, is me also.. (1st time i ever got a mic, took me ages to figure out why there was a 0.5sec approx delay between my input and output from speakers, reason was simple in the end) .. so my words on this tune are the 1st things that came to mind when i finally got it working. The whistling was also done in just a few takes. smooth, deep, baseline chill sorta stuff - https://www.mixcloud.com/nosleep/let-the-snap-do-the-talking/
2nd time, I used the vocal sample from a film called 'Network' and i built the intro around the vocals, (1 of my very fav intro's ever!) .. mostly because of the last few lines he says right before it drops! it drops into a kinda funky breaks tune - https://www.mixcloud.com/nosleep/dont-take-it/
I do beatbox and my whistling has improved a lot since i made that 1st track, but I havnt used either in a tune yet... some of the beats or baselines i compose are originally done by me beatboxing but just as the idea, I then build it with real instrument noises.
Both these tunes are on the roughly blended album i linked, https://www.mixcloud.com/nosleep/chillin-off-my-face/ - track 6: Let the snap do the talking, and track 7: Don't take it! ... but track 5: New - Phat beat version 1 - 2006/7 is 1 of my fav's! although nothing beats the opening tune : Document 2 .. i write them for me, to dance to!! So they don't always perfectly fit a specific genre...but they arnt ment to
hope u enjoy