Fucking hell, bro, let me put it another way. Imagine we give a brand new 404 to two homies, neither of which have ever used a 404 before. We give them a different set of rules to develop some 404 skills, and a whole month in which to do it.
- Homie-1 is permitted use of the sequencer and resampling.
- Homie-2 is permitted use of resampling only.
So the end of the month arrives and it's time to launch a battle between them in order to assess the overall skill developed by each of them. There's a twist though, because it would be unfair to allow Homie-1 the use of the sequencer when Homie-2 was never allowed to do that.
In order to make it fair, we remove Homie-1's permission to make use of the sequencer, and throw them both into a live-performance shoot-out. But hey, hang-on a minute, what's that you say? Did you say
"Ah, but Homie-1 spent his time honing his skills with a sequencer so it's unfair to remove his dependence on it at the last minute!"?
Exactly, and you would be right, it would be more like a slaughter-match than a shoot-out because Homie-2 was developing hardcore beat-making skills from the very start, he was only ever allowed to use resampling!
Homie-1 would be in the same position Zindan was in when LoopmantrA quite rightly called him out for his nonsense. I am fully behind LoopmantrA on this, do not regret a word of what I said and I will stand by it religiously. There is nothing anyone will ever say to convince me that beat-makers making the use of a sequencer have any place whatsoever referring to geurrilla-tactic beat-making such as live-performance resampling as "a hack for amateurs".
The polar opposite is true, so for Zindan to use that line against me in order to make himself look correct when he isn't, was bad enough. But to use it on LoopmantrA who actually does this stuff for real, is pretty fucking stupid and I wasn't surprised in the least when Zindan turned chicken after LoopmantrA called him to battle over it.
Even more embarrassing (for those doing the insults), is that even when LoopmantA pointed out he was a live musician to get this point over, the statement was twisted in order to make it look as if it has anything to do with resampling. I think what he's trying to get accross to you numb-nuts is that using a sequencer is cheating in much the same way that programming a fucking concerto into a sequencer and then claiming you're better skilled than one who can actaully pick-up a real violin and play one live, is anywhere near fair.
LMFAO
On a more amusing note, it's a shame the battle never went ahead. For me it would have been worth it just to get a look at Zindan. I've always pictured him as some twenty-something with a tuft of hair growing from the middle of his head, wearing square, black-framed glasses and a T-shirt with his avatar printed on it!
But anyway, like I said, I don't have anything against sequencers at all, I use and will continue to use sequencers whenever I need to. What I won't do, though, is kid my-fucking-self that doing so gives me the props to call-out beat-makers who practice the more guerrilla-tactic method that is the purely resampling, live performance workflow.
Peace!
each to their own