Though it has played a major role in the evolution of sampling. As a genre....far more than any. There's no doubt Gotye was influenced by hip hop. But he was also influenced by Jean-Jacques Perrey, Delia Ann Derbyshire, musique concrete, jamaican dub....all of which pre-date hip hop and were sampling, looping, recontextualizing pre-existing music.

Check out his stuff. I'm not too keen on the singing and lyrics but the music is highly impressive.