I must be one of the few who's never made a d&b track on my samplers, though I do have quite a bit of mr squarepusher's output.... my own band is most often compared with tangerine dream
we do long-form electronica, almost completely improvised, & with no computers. the sequencers are hardware devices- doepfer maqs, a schaltwerk, a mobius, an mmt8. other instruments in our rig are old analogue synths (moogs, sci, yamaha, old rolands) while the samplers hold faithful representations of things that are too big to carry around- pianos, the mellotron (we have a 400 & 9 tapeframes), organs, church organs- or things we don't or can't play ourselves- woodwind, strings, & of course a huge selection of daft noises, bangs, crashes, speech samples & so forth.
but this is all being burned onto flash rom for the proteus boxes tonight, so the samplers can stay safely at home & not get trashed on the road.
duncan.