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



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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.


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Wow..This was ... ( 5 days ago by 4Love4Music)
Wow..This was incredible, thanks for such a valuable piece of information...
always someone has ... ( 5 days ago by M1ggins)
always someone has to bring race into it. personally i see it as poor people made it and rich people stole it, same as it ever was, colour doesn't come into it. get the chip off of your shoulder
I made it before him ( 4 days ago by triggadigga)
I made it before him
thank you very ... ( 4 days ago by NOUOMO)
thank you very mutch!!
JUNGLEEE DNB !!!!! ... ( 3 days ago by spearing101)
JUNGLEEE DNB !!!!! :D
Great piece of ... ( 3 days ago by AdaptorLive)
Great piece of musical history!
simply amazing:)! ( 3 days ago by blakesan1)
simply amazing:)!
Thank u very much ... ( 3 days ago by zanoni666)
Thank u very much for this information|
I like to add that this looped=break is very danceable. That must explain a lot, anyway.
Keep up the good work, amen brother & God bless
I have hated that ... ( 3 days ago by flammaster)
I have hated that fucking beat for over 35 years! it's so insipid.
Array ( 3 days ago by DaRealRudeBoyPhil)
YES LOL!
JUNGLE IS MASSIVE!
really unique ... ( 3 days ago by VacantMinds)
really unique visual on this. very diverse. quite a lot of different shots. cinematography is great.
That's an unreal ... ( 2 days ago by Diviwack)
That's an unreal documentary! When the beat was played i almost instantly recognised it by thousands of song nowadays as the author says. Excellent 20 minutes of my morning, cheers mate! :)
wow, really good ... ( 1 day ago by golafs)
wow, really good video!
With the advent of ... ( 1 day ago by defendingthekingdom)
With the advent of personal computers we live in a "cut & paste" world. There is very little emphasis today in the music business to create original music as long as the music is sellable. To see artists making music with samples from older songs but that end-up selling millions of CDs is the cheapest form of music. No originality, purely riding on the coat-tails of REAL musicians who came before them, using their earned recognizable beats to evoke listeners to buy their own music. -DJ 18 years
this beat is so ... ( 1 day ago by n00bz4r)
this beat is so addictive, I don't understand it either, it gives me a weird good feeling, but also reminds me of dark times
I dunno I just love it
and JOJO MAYER? ( 1 day ago by davidians79)
and JOJO MAYER?
Soundwaves have a ... ( 1 day ago by macwild1234)
Soundwaves have a unique efect on the brain, hence the reason they put on certain songs while you are shopping or are put in movies to get you in a certain mood. Try watching a horror movie without the music...its almost laughable. Thats because the soundwaves put you into a certain mood.
yeah. i saw this ... ( 1 day ago by tetavo)
yeah. i saw this thing on the internet: it was midi files with a bunch of different melodies in them, downloadable for use in one's own song. what every happened to creativity?
well, i'd think ... ( 1 day ago by tetavo)
well, i'd think most of the people in the world would disagree with you, considering how many people have sampled it...
Zero G! Those ... ( 1 day ago by DLloydP)
Zero G! Those Fudruckers! Haha
Yeah, yeah, yeah! ... ( 19 hours ago by drumgurutwofour)
Yeah, yeah, yeah! But did the drummer get paid? Forget all the bull about liberalizing copyright protection and learn how to play your own instrumen t instead of stealing. You have to pay the piper.
What goes around ... ( 17 hours ago by VMcStellar)
What goes around comes around. Clyde Stubblefield, John 'Jabo' Sparks & Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie, best known as James Brown's drummers, have been trying to reclaim their own recorded grooves for years now. You can copy & paste until you're blue in the face but w/out real musicians, and recordings of these musicians, what would there be to sample? I'm a working drummer/musician and believe a resurgence of good orig. music of all styles and great live performance is on the upswing. Good vid.
In addition to my ... ( 12 hours ago by defendingthekingdom)
In addition to my earlier comment... If a musician/artist is paid "fully" for their beats/samples and is in full agreeance with the deal then that is half of the solution. However, the other half of the problem is the laziness of a lot of new artists/producers to not create their own beats and to use older (well-known) beats to further their own career and wallet. It says a lot about the lack of integrity in that new artist/producer. It's an unwritten law that artists should create original work
If you'd listen to ... ( 3 hours ago by l1xy)
If you'd listen to the video, you'd find out that they didn't pursue legal action. Pay attention so you don't sound like a fool.



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