Quote Originally Posted by clubsynthetic View Post

Where do you draw the line on copying other people's work? Same samples; same basslines or rhythm patterns? Its a very personal question as everyone has their standards are vastly different.
without pointing out the obvious mate, that's what my thread is asking in the first place essentially, but im not talking about actively copying someones work, far from it. Im talking about what happens when a passion for something clouds rational judgement, thinking and a persons output. In this case the passion is for music, and a persons particular favourite artist, style, sound etc etc.

i should sincerely hope that no one conciously makes an effort to copy anyone, regardless of their standards. Copying is copying is copying, regardless of the the degree to which the copying runs into.

and its got nothing to do with drugs at all to be fair, i dont see a role that drugs can play in production on any level. Even something like getting stoned in the studio can impede progress and rational thinking, and 4 hours later your still sitting there stoned with the same loop playing. That's not innovation to me