<< 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.>>
And I suspect that most people on this list listen to more 303 than trombone.
So the replacement has surpassed the original...in some quarters.
<< 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.>>
Are you familiar with collage as a visual art form? It was practiced by
Picasso and other well-known artists.
<< 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. >>
While I love the sound of a good Oberheim, I'd take the MPC-3000 material
over the Oberheim material in a second. Without question. But are they
"mad" monkeys? Or, is Peter Naismith among them?
- Fred Church
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