Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop


This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.







Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: February 21, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Author: mobius32

Length: 00:18:08
Rating: 4.78
Views: 1264954

Tags: jungle break nate Amen harrison

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RuffSoldier (November 21, 2008 at 1:27 pm)
great info.. something everybody should know who works with music, specialy with Breakbeats..

thanks for uploading this.!!
djdiscreet518 (November 21, 2008 at 12:02 pm)
Excellent analysis--educational and informative--loved it--I remember the Winstons' record when it was new--from a nice song for Father's day--flip it and it is a building block for a genre!! Great story!!
mdarcyoconnor (November 21, 2008 at 11:55 am)
Word up, free all the samples! Freakin lawyers and sh!t.
"Instruments are political prisoners trapped up in computers" Saul Williams. Don't know if this quote is appropriate for the thesis but it's funny.
millstrumentals (November 21, 2008 at 6:05 am)
Funky Drummer is hotter... Impeach the president is hotter... but this is ok for dnb i guess

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