Get a digital recorder. If it doesn't record in 44.1k then you will need to convert using audacity. Mine is a crappy mono recorder in my mp3 player. Go to a coffee shop or a busy street and stand there and record it. Cut up your recordings to 30second loops and import the samples. You'll find that out of context, the sounds can then be cut up more in audiotool with p.eq and other fx on them. Also you can layer the sounds by putting more than one on at the same time to add to texture. Then if you want, route through a pulv or other synth and get even more out of it. You can pitch shift with machineste as usual and you've entered a realm that goes beyond anything a stand alone synth can provide.
I have to check out more of his stuff. I'm so overloaded with listening LOL. Actually yes I noticed he does that and I like that. I want there to be a big movement to add to this though. I still have hopes of doing something with feedback sounds, but I have to do that when no one is home or I'll end up divorced <_<
Something I think is missing on the site is people finding real sounds and making things from them. There's far more possibilities once you start doing that. If you play many different sounds at the same time, you can make those movie style fx (some are made up of 20+ sounds all played at the same time with different eq's). Just pick up a cheap digital recorder - that's what I'm using. Audiotool is already incredibly limitless overall in my opinion.
the bass is partly made by the sound of my train to take me to work. The other part of my bass is the nose of trucks on the street. I guess I should have recorded my subway ride and used that instead...