Quote Originally Posted by qUE View Post
Okay, so it's probably quite a good cop out to say humans were beating things since when they existed. But they certainly wern't banging it out on electrical gadgets :)
Is the sound source that important though?

I mean, in the latter half of the last century I think it was. Electronic music and recording technology was developing at astonishing rates and the sounds were very new. The characteristic noise of an electric guitar, a drum machine or an analogue synth was such a breath of fresh air that whole subcultures built around them.

Then sampling came along and pushed us back towards exploiting old sounds and that became the fresh sound.

These days I think the playing field is much more level. Who cares where the sounds come from so long as they're inventive, different and (most importantly) sound good.

If someone can throw together a fierce tune using sticks, tin cans and something to record it on then kudos to them.