I can live with sampling when it's used as an instrumental substitution,
no different really than someone using a 303 instead of a trombone. I
just can't stand it when it's used as a crutch by people with no musical
interest or knowledge outside of the fact that changes usually occur in
patterns of four (CHEMICAL BROTHERS). In this way I find sampling to be
an evil demon sent by the devil to corrupt the musical art form, making
talent or imagination obsolete. Thank goodness the fuckers who do this
are easy to spot and ignore or I'd be completely disillusioned.
A thought: If you gave one hundred monkeys MPC-3000s and let them loose
for an infinite amount of time, they would eventually come up with
nothing whatsoever at all, whereas you could give them Oberheim
Matrix-12s and they would come up with all sorts of great shit.
Tom