This is an interesting topic.....I'd be interested to see how peolple on the forum (bearing in mind the recent heated debates on stolen loops) view the use of sampled breaks in hip hop, I mean that is a genre that developed wholly from using other people's musc, literally by looping drum breaks from someone elses track and adding yer own elements. Don't get me wrong, i am not advocating totally ripping other people off, but i suppose there is a fine line between using or abusing another person's work and using it in another context. Just interested to hear what poeple think of this and it's relevance to techno music. I am not a producer and apart form djing I have only dabbled a bit with siftware etc so maybe other producers are in a better position to judge.