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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: ZenAndTheArt on November 28, 2012, 10:19 pm
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CLEARNET http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
"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."
This is a fascinating video on many levels. But anyone who considers themselves a drum'n'bass head (Junglist Soldier 8)), this really is a must-see! I've watched it several times over the years and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. :)
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nice find, most people don't realize, but the amen break is still being used today. it was also heavily used by some hip hop groups, like public enemy :)
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nice find, most people don't realize, but the amen break is still being used today. it was also heavily used by some hip hop groups, like public enemy :)
Yer, it's just mind boggling how 6 seconds of a drum beat has permeated so widely into all different kinds of music over the last twenty years or so. The Amen break is part of the foundation of a whole music genre and culture (drum'n'bass). The music world would be very different without it, and like the video points out, no royalties where ever payed to the Winstons. The narrators point about how copyright laws suffocate the creative process, because it's necessary to reuse elements of previous ideas (sampling) to build upon and create new music, was really thought provoking and interesting. :)