From BigKumquat Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 00:17
<< 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 xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx np: air conditioner, chain reaction CD (mildly cracked), fire trucks