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

Well, I only half agree with you here. I can mention certain Heavy Metal/Hard Rock songs that use similar riffs but have different singers singing different notes... With only 12 tones making up modern music and pre-disposed chord structures (like minor chords used for Blues & Metal,) there's gonna be similarities in songs. I stand behind my comparison.

Really? Almost "ALL d&b?"
That's an incredibly limiting thing to say... The Amen was used in many d&b songs, I agree there. But so were the Breaks that I mentioned above. I might be able to mention more tracks using the Apache break off hand then the Amen.

your connection to rock music is different, though because every guitarist makes theyre own riffs, and the drummers, bassists, and singers. its not like they all take the same riff, beat, or lyrics and switch them around. thats why the sampling of the break makes dnb possible, because every person that makes a dnb song has to go to that amen break and extract each drum beat and switch them around to make theyre own. its different than just being able to play your own

but, in almost all dnb, it is the amen break. even though it has been broken down so much that it seems impossible that it would be that one break, it is. now, remember this is only in dnb that this break is always used, im not saying this for every type of electronic music. if it werent for that one break, the entire genre of dnb would either not exist, or might only have similar genres. electronic music would still exist however

This is some academic bullshit trying to be hip and cool and taking one totally grooving beat from The Winstons and trying to claim that all other beats came from that. It's stupid, since drumming has a million different ways to embellish the groove.

That Winston Amen Beat - although hip as shit - is just one of many. Check out all the beats by all the drummers of James Brown's bands and you'll get the feel for how much deeper this is than this toolbag makes it out to be...

What this guy has done is to pick one sampled beat and apply it to all these other examples. In fact, the first three in the video aren't using that sample, since the tempos aren't the same. If you slowed down that "Amen Beat" the sound wouldn't be the same. Hence, what you're listening to in those other songs is the same beat, just played by another drummer.

Hi VinsonV- I occasionally check the comments here, and enjoy reading views different than those I proposed in my project. However, all the examples in the video, including the first three (3rd Bass, NWA, Mantronix) do indeed sample the Amen. If you take the original break and slow it down, you will get what you hear. Listen closely to the original 12" records if you have them. But it is also true that other, machine hi-hats and whatnot were also layered on top, which may be what you're hearing.

lol he made a dubplate of his documentary SICK!

Tight observation.

drum and bass was built off this break originally thats a fact... my qualifications been listening to dnb for 13 years .. im saying originally man yes it has changed but pay attention bro