Since I've accused Kevin Saunderson of playing bad Big Room Techno recently, I was amused to see a notice of this product:
http://www.soundstosample.com/info/Hy2rogen/Big_Room_Elements/576# Listening to the demo for this sample set is interesting in a couple of ways: First, it does exhibit some of the crapulence I associate with this sort of track. Second, it's really awful -- probably more awful than any cheesy pandering Big Room track that actually becomes popular. I'm always interested when these sample kits come out, because they usually come out after the artists they're meant to imitate have moved on or fizzled out. In fact I'd go so far as to say that unless you really disguised what you'd done, if you used any of these product you'd be laughed out of town. The entire market for this BS is wannabes. Of course you can make an entire career out of sampling Motown or Rare Groove records, and there's a phenomenon of producers selling a lot of copies of tracks they made with straight-up jacks from older House records. I'm all for sampling as a component of creative music making but if all you're going to do is jack the main loop from Steve Hurley, and add modern ticky-tacky minimal percussion over it, I don't want to hear it.
