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

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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• break
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• jungle

[111RichardC111]

'You're listening to K Billy's super sound of the seventies...'

[pixelkatten]

If you need 18 minutes to explain a six second drum loop. it must be very important indeed.

[xakchan]

@pixelkatten Amen, brother.

[spinstar56]

amen

[sylkates]

Fascinating. Thanks for tracking this down. People need to do this more to other parts and other genres of electronic music, I'd love to hear more...

[md7306]

you can't copyright a rhythm or a chord progression;only lyrics and melody can be copyrighted.

[Spotie]

@somercet1 Dude, shut up. This has nothing to do with any sort of political bent. You're just entirely too eager to see what you want in everything. Either appreciate that you just learned something new, or keep your mouth shut and move on.

[somercet1]

"... sell things like Jeeps and blue jeans to suburban America" More coding. "Suburban America" is coded explicitly as WHITE in flashing neon. This guy can't wait for the re-education post-consumer camps to open.

Useless punk.

[somercet1]

"Corporate recycling of hip-hop to sell things like Jeeps and blue jeans to suburban America"

What a Marxist tool. Note the careful coding of the speaker's bigotry. Recycling is associated with garbage, so he links it to corporations buying music from hip-hip artists to imply that the corporations think it is garbage. So subtle. Never mind the design majors who staff independent shops that craft these commercials, who often love this music. Or the money this generates for artists.

[yourprovider1]

Is it just me or does the way he talk remind any one of dirty handz?

[CalyptratusTZM]

Fuck, I'm so tired of this bullshit focus on intellectual property rights crap. Watch "The system of ownership of ideas" speach by Eben Moglen, I't so empowering =) (Larry Lessings pal)