Here's three samples now go and form a band

Ok so captain dan and his dominatrix girlfriend skream queen were having a heated debate about music. Skream qween is punk through and through and much more besides but has no love for the electronic wigga beats. Captain dan, as you will remember back in the day was a proud member ofthe league against ska punk.
There's mad love between the two of them but it stretches across a musical divide !
During debate about said musical divide skream qween , partly in jest made the comment the problem with electronic music is any kid with a laptop can do it.
And indeed this much is true: back in the acid rave leading to big beat era when this stuff really started to kick out of the major studios and into the smaller outfits there was still a huge expense involved in getting the kit together. It took time, it took commitment and continualy collecting hardware . Print mags like future music and sound on sound told us our music just wouldn't be good enought if we didn't save the grand for a REAL tb 303.

Fast forward ten years and now we have far more powerful laptops that can make any sound we need. There are plenty of free soft synths and effects out there to keep us going and our virtual samplers have as much memory as we want. Rightly or wrongly thanks to software crackers like SSG and h2ozone we can even get the big name software like ableton or cubase for free. And if you are feeling particularly moral there are plenty of freeware /cheaper ware equivalents which are just as good if not better ( the captain has recently switched to reaper which cost a voluntary 40 quid). Nowadays bloggers like petermkirn, Casper electronics and Get Lofi don't teach us to fetishize that expensive kit we don't have but that it's what we do with our kit that matters , how it enables us creatively and what our relationship with it is along with it's meaning in our creative process. And if it's not right open it up and hack it or build your own!
Now people will still argue that hardware us better than software or analogue sounds better than digital but the point is that software is good enoug

Good enough for any kid with a laptop to make music. And we can slate the pretty who stands there with a MacBook pro and a few ableton presets who has never even heard of granular sampling but that just makes us twats. Big prog rock twats . It's the equivalent of the way Emerson lake and palmer or phil Collins looked down on sid viscious cos he couldn't even hold his bass the right way up.

Way back before the captain was alive punk zine sniffing glue published a now famous article which had just guitar tab for three chords and the statement "here's three chords now go and form a band"

The captain says:
Here's three samples - now go and form a band
http://www.topsamplesites.com/