any way, Like string tapper was saying, with a very broad scope of input you can see soo many originators. It's hard when you study them to not make similar music to theirs and if you are studying many you can end up with tracks that sound so disparate and more like "these tracks are my X impersonation, and these tracks are my Y impersonation, etc"
My beef is in trying to render my musical voice out of all this and eventually stop thinking about the originators and become one. But you never stop learning right? I don't know, maybe just actually starting to study my own methods and preferences a little more...
This is soooooo much bigger than house, ska, swing.... I'm talking more about expressions here to be more vague.. just what we all need