All this talk that music must be complicated to have some artistic merit
smacks of intellectual snobbery. It isn't the complicated programming <or
playing for that matter> which makes a song good. It is the artistic
vision and the imagination. There are many people who can play an
instrument flawlessly but cannot write a song to save their life. They
lack the vision; their hands can do the work but it does not matter. Then
there are composers who visualize great works and use orchestras <or even
samplers!> to make the sound reality. Does that make them any less an
artist? Is there work now worthless? Is someone who can play an instrument
<but not compose> better than this artist? If your in awe of programming
ability instead of listening to the music then you should trainspot
software instead.
FYI: want to see the amen break twisted and distorted into something new?
check out lesser: welcome to the american experience.
-daniel