i do totally hear what you are saying tho deaf.. and i think its all fair enough.

At the end of the day, when ive been in the studio engineering a trance track or a house track for somebody using no sample cds etc i feel no more creative whatsoever than when i make techno for myself with sampled bits.. Its because i know that i have done a lot of creative work of my own to the samples and the track - and its just a different way of working alltogethor..

I know exactly how to make good music without any samples, and i often do - its just that using samples/loops is part of the creative process i use to achieve my techno sound. Besides which at least half the loops/samples i use were made by me in the first place!