(idm) monkeys with samplers

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
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