your talking about forward thinking music then telling us to look back to how the northern soul era used to lift stuff.

To me looking back at how people did things a few decades ago is not the way to create foward thinking music.
Also as you piont out they did not have our tecnology then so why look to how they did it without what we have?

The beats internatinal track dub be good to me may have been written by Norman Cook but hes not exactly somone we shold be looking up to for where we wish to take our music.
Or rather not for me personaly.

One more thing its not exactly unbelivable that sombody can make music without sampling is it?