Some artists like Moby, a famous electronica musician, incorporate both real

instruments and computer programmed sounds to make a delicious mix of the two ingredients. Other groups like the Crystal Method from Los Angeles and Fatboy Slim from England, use only record players, Drum machines, computer beat samplers, and voice distorters. This makes for non-interesting, looped beats, over and over again, and terrible singing. I do not consider that music, but rather just noise. One of my favorite bands ever is a group that hails from Iceland called Sigur Ros. They make possibly the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Sigur Ros are trained classical musicians with a flare for rock ‘n’ roll. They use mostly real instruments, but also like to dabble with samplers and drum machines. Bands like Sigur Ros and Moby add to their skills as musicians with computer programs, unlike the Crystal Method and Fatboy Slim who are confined by those very same programs.

Just because you spin a record, or hit a beat machine, does not give you the right to call yourself a musician. I

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