From country western to Pop everyone using loops is part of major music production today as fact according SOS. Loops and grooves come in different parts. Drum looops, percussion instrumentals, or bass phrases from CDs, vinyl, or from Akai, Big Fish Audio. All of which were copyrighted and owned by someone else which a license is needed to use. How one uses it whole, chopped, or just notes is a matter of choice. Even if a loop is chopped you have to by law get a license or permission by law. But because you may make it unrecognizable you may get away with it. It is still biting as someone calls it.
To make this simple major useage of drum machines, samplers, sequencers and etc were started by djs using these gears to extend, recreate and remix records from 1975 til now. Most traditional musicians had no vision of their usage unless they were on some experimental msuic or they work with an unquie engineer or producer at the time. These djs were not classically trained musicians creating their own loops from scratch and making records. These djs started a new context of sound making music from records which was predicted to happen since 1948 by a forward thinking musicologist that electronic music would move this way.
Give props to Cool Herc who was a major part of this new music along with other just doing it on the turntables, the next generation Marly Marl, Flash, and others incorporating the technology to extend the boundaries of the style, and big props, to the sound providers of today to many mofos to name but more than likely their music influenced alot of people to pick up their mpcs.
The real issue is that is it important that if you use a loop you haven`t created yourself that you have to have clearance from the publishers. I don`t think in my opinion it makes you a bitier that comes from a traditional mainstream trained musician way of thinking and if so that means that you are a drummer, keyboardist, and would and can play all of your own instruments like Prince. No need for a mpc when you could just use a DAW or HDR.
On the real it all about djing and being the selector one time. Finding the right one, arranging the right way, and chopping if you want to work on it more or hide it it the job of the producer in sample based production.
The SELECTOR has the ear on what sounds good and will excited the audience from DJs point of view. That is why we dig SO much to find and select that killer groove. As far as drum loops still people extract the groove from a drum loop and just change the sound or recreate the same groove by playing on top just sampling technology makes it easier.
Keep on looping Cap, Lord and other I`m with ya. How it is used depends on clearance and to get back that soul keep on digginig. "Love or Hate it"
Shine on.
By the way I stated some facts just from my point of view and several million music consumers and the dance music industry. The more hits the better.
By the way I believe this days most people play their own drum patterns it is much more fun.
