i personally think that if you can be 100% original, and make music ppl love, you're an absolute genius. but technology gives you 'shortcuts' and sometimes you can use these shortcuts and still be creative. we use alot of loops. i see that as being creative cause we get them from alot of different sources and 99% of the time change them completely, but it's not the ideal senario....

i still live for the day when the kick drum we use is something we've created 100% ourselves from a sine/square wave - as is every sound in our tracks... there's no presets/909/808 etc etc :=]

it just gonna take years and years to be able to do this....

but it's something we want to do.... as do alot of ppl i reckon...