[coldtea]

>I've produced/recorded music for over 20 years and loops from other people are not only cheating, they are not your damned recordings and you sound like every other loop-arranger out there...

Actually there are songs using samples that are 10 times more original and unique than songs other people have totally recorded and played themselves.

You can be inventive and original using samples and you can be a copy-cat bore writing your own stuff.

For example, let's compare a cheesy, but still huge classic and immediately recognizable "U can't touch this" with tons of stupid-ass Michael Bolton cliched ballads or MOR rock.