didn't you also post something with manitoba/caribou recently? i'm at work and going by memory; why don't you say who you sampled? either way, you know. that may be accepted here, on a hip-hop board, but if you were to present your music with looped samples of contemporary artists in electronic music or even the other contemporary stuff you've been sampling, others would probably laugh at you for doing it because it's just not accepted. ultimately it's really not expressing yourself and your own creative spirit, at least not much.