* SPECIALS * | The Amen Break, within electronic music's boundairies
23 videos • 2,963 views • by Synthaestetic PLAYLIST: THE AMEN BREAK, within electronic music's boundairies Artists: The Winstons, Mantronix, Orbital, Danny Breaks, Back 2 Basics, Shy FX, Dillinja, Aphrodite, Andy C, The Chrystal Method, Goldie, Roni Size, 4Hero, Amon Tobin, µ-Ziq, Hrvatski, Squarepusher, Venetian Snare, Remarc, Noisia, Special Request From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break The Amen break is a 1969 remake of James Brown's famous 1967 beat in "Cold Sweat". It is a 6 to 7 second (4 bar) drum solo performed by Gregory Cylvester "G. C." Coleman in the song "Amen, Brother" performed by the 1960s funk and soul outfit The Winstons. The full song is an up-tempo instrumental rendition of Jester Hairston's "Amen," which he wrote for the Sidney Poitier film Lilies of the Field (1963) and which was subsequently popularized by The Impressions in 1964. The Winstons' version was released as a B-side of the 45 RPM 7-inch vinyl single "Color Him Father" in 1969 on Metromedia (MMS-117), and is currently available on several compilations and on a 12-inch vinyl re-release together with other songs by The Winstons. It gained fame from the 1980s onwards when four bars (6 seconds) sampled from the drum-solo (or imitations thereof) became very widely used as sampled drum loops in breakbeat, hip hop, breakbeat hardcore, hardcore techno and breakcore, drum and bass (including oldschool jungle and ragga jungle), and digital hardcore music. The Amen Break 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." It is one of the most sampled loops in contemporary electronic music and arguably the most sampled drum beat of all time. From BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-3208... Amen, Brother was a little-known B-side released in 1969. Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs - but the band behind it never made any money from it. "It felt like plagiarism and I felt ripped off and raped," says Richard L Spencer, lead singer of The Winstons - the band that recorded the original track. "I come from an era where you didn't steal people's ideas." Over the past three decades bands on both sides of the Atlantic have used the drum solo from Amen, Brother for inspiration. FOLLOW THIS LINK - HISTORICAL ITINERARY: THE ORIGINS OF DUB MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... THE RISE OF DUB MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... OLDSCHOOL JUNGLE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... INSIGHTS: THE WINSTONS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Win... BREAKBEAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbeat BREAKBEAT HARDCORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbe... BREAKCORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakcore RAGGA JUNGLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragga_j... FOLLOW US - Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Synthaesteti... -- Please, support the underground music. Buy music! --