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
• nate
• harrison
• 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.

[ArmorKingEmir]

@MicrosoftsourceCode man can u please tell me the name of the documentary or where can i find it, i love that kind of stuff, thanx :)

[MicrosoftsourceCode]

@nkhstudio is they another version. cause everybody seems to be using the name the ragga-jungle name.

[MicrosoftsourceCode]

@nkhstudio On conspiracy I remember watching a documentary on the effect drum beat speed had on people in a dance club. At 179 beats per minute and low frequency bass it was impossible to keep still. But the most profound effect I found was guys stopped asking girls to dance and groups of guys would dance like crazy old folks for hours. A shame I found to got to gigs and find 99% guys

[nkhstudio]

@somercet1 dude...seriously, stop reading conspiracy books...

[nkhstudio]

@MicrosoftsourceCode it was ragga-jungle dotcom, though it no longer exists in the version I described in 2004, unfortunately...

[nkhstudio]

@somercet1 Huh? I am the author of the video. You're making a bit of a leap. It's you who's making the stretch between corporations and garbage, not me. I used to work as an assistant engineer at one of your "independent shops" that produced music for television commercials (a "jingle house"). You have no idea what your talking about.

[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...