Are you a fan of hip-hop? Of jungle? Breakbeat? Broken beat? Drum n’ bass, trip-hop, dubstep?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then you have definitely heard some sampled, spliced-up, sped-up, looped or otherwise manipulated variation of a six-second drum solo from the 1960’s called the “Amen Break.”
Performed by a funk and soul outfit named The Winstons, this highly-pirated version is actually a sped-up rendition of an earlier gospel classic, proving that the recycling did not start exclusively with the birth of the sampler.
However, with appearances ranging from N.W.A. to Shy-FX, the emergence of sampler-based music allowed this simple loop to pollinate and permeate the landscapes of several burgeoning music cultures simultaneously.
The below twenty-minute video does an admirable job of not only tracing the origins across genres, but also discussing the impact of lax copyright enforcement on overall creativity and musical evolution.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out.
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April 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
This is a great video, but what is truly ironic is that a few phrases from this video (or record that is used for the video) was sampled by a French Producer named Wax Tailor on a song called “Once Upon a Past”.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
pardon my sub-par english grammar, a few phrases WERE sampled…