Quote Originally Posted by Sunil
If it's disguised well and no-one notices, is it alright?
IMO that's pretty much it right there. I don't see any problems with sampling, obviously seeing how this is techno and all, that's what techno music is. Just do something interesting with the sample. Run it through effects, re-pitch it, re-eq, whatever. Or even sampling a small loop, sure go ahead, but at least do something, use effects on it, chop it up and make a new loop out of it, re-eq, or at the very least use it underneath everything in the track so it's just kind of filling things in a bit, rather than basically doing all the work for the track. But like I said that's just my own personal opinion.

I'm glad that this thread has moved to something a little more constructive. ;)