well Mark, maybe I'm overestimating people then. You mean people spend ages and ages on processing loops, but still manage to make tracks that sound like thousands of others? Now that is really lame!! I thought it was knocked up in no time, you're telling me people actually have to work at sounding unoriginal??? That it requires effort to put together the nth track of percussive sound + kick + hi-hat ==> filter up ==> ride in ==> ride out ==> breakdown, bla bla bla. Those clips that deafmosaic linked to were, to put it nicely, not worth making any fuss about, let alone threats of violence, boycotts or that sort of thing. It's just formulaic fodder.

I've already said I've nothing against sampling. Also I've not heard your stuff, or this Sven fella in any fullness, but from what I've heard of the processes involved it's no wonder people are sounding the same. It's dance music by numbers (I won't say techno as it isn't techno as far as I'm concerned - see my post on the old primate thread for clarification), however long you spend altering a sample. Samples can be used without any processing and editing and still be made to sound original and interesting.

This may seem a militant stance, but take it as an indication of my dislike for lazy sounding music. It's like a disease, and the more people that do it, the harder it will be to find the good flesh in amongst the tumours.