I have over 10000 tracks of electronic music, I'm a DJ, a sound engineer, and I have read several books by highly recognized music critics on the history of EDM and hip-hop, and I follow the history of contemporary Latin American electronic music and UK bass as a hobby. Seriously, if you want to poke holes in my arguments you better start providing proof from people who actually compose and write music, tour around, and involved in their artistic communities, otherwise it's just spouting bullshit which a few dozen mixtapes of '90s ragga jungle, dubstep, digital cumbia and Andean music would like to disprove.
And yet you think that original tracks are crap and boring, as if the artists sampling them didn't find them fascinating, or weren't obsessed with them in their youth. This reminds me of a would-be film critic I knew who saw no point in watching old balck-and-white films, which he also derided as 'boring'. You think instrument makers might assert copyright over their sounds, and equate using the sounds from an electronic instrument to sampling records, despite the obvious legal and creative differences.
I do compose music and am actively involved in several musical communities. While I publish very little of it I've had plenty of time to think about the process differences. The weakness in your argument is that you claim sampling generally results in a completely different song, as if a remix was equivalent to a completely fresh work. If this were the case, you could pull the primary samples out and just replace them with something else, and it would have no impact. Since this would be so much easier than dealing with all the headaches of sample clearance or possible lawsuits, you have to ask yourself why people don't do it if the original sample is as unimportant as you claim.
So you have over 10,000 tracks of electronic music. Big deal, I accumulated thousands of tracks on CD, vinyl and DAT when I was spinning goa trance back in the 90s. If you think the beginning and end of creativity is in the selection and mixing, then I invite you to try doing it with individual notes or drum hits for a while and learn the difference between sampling riffs, breaks and so forth and building them yourself.
