Personally, I've never sampled more than a single tone/note from anybody else's production.
For me, its a learning thing . . . too many producers will just sample something complicated instead of learning how to make it themselves. I don't know that those musicians are cheating their audience necessarily, but I do think that they can inadvertently cheat themselves. I'm a visual artist too (well, primarily), and even though tracing is often an ethical way to start a piece, its something I've never, ever done. I don't want to just copy a subject, or use its essence, I want to /understand/ it and make it my own . . . to me, that's what progress is. Both on a personal level, and a cultural one. ------------- Brian "balistic" Prince http://www.bprince.com - art and techno Strokes of Defiance EP . . . soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]