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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.

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

Length: 18:08
Rating: 4.77
Views: 1156771

Tags: Amen  break  harrison  jungle  nate  

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DLloydP (September 6, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
Zero G! Those Fudruckers! Haha
tetavo (September 6, 2008 at 11:11 pm)
well, i'd think most of the people in the world would disagree with you, considering how many people have sampled it...
tetavo (September 6, 2008 at 11:09 pm)
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?
macwild1234 (September 6, 2008 at 8:12 pm)
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.
davidians79 (September 6, 2008 at 7:58 pm)
and JOJO MAYER?
n00bz4r (September 6, 2008 at 1:03 pm)
this beat is so addictive, I don't understand it either, it gives me a weird good feeling, but also reminds me of dark timesI dunno I just love it
defendingthekingdom (September 6, 2008 at 6:24 am)
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
golafs (September 6, 2008 at 6:23 am)
wow, really good video!
Diviwack (September 5, 2008 at 12:58 pm)
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! :)
VacantMinds (September 5, 2008 at 12:27 am)
really unique visual on this. very diverse. quite a lot of different shots. cinematography is great.

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