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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Posted 05 June 2006 - 6:12 AM
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I didn't know drum'n'bass came from a 6 seconds sample... 8O
well... all that kind of music are made by few seconds of repeated samples :D
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Posted 05 June 2006 - 1:48 PM
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Ben_j Escribi�:
I didn't know drum'n'bass came from a 6 seconds sample... 8O
well... all that kind of music are made by few seconds of repeated samples :D
D'n'B is probably the less repetitive kind of electronic music... At least for many tracks
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Posted 05 June 2006 - 8:13 PM
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Your statement - was a joke, right?
In fact, it's true DnB is repetitive, I was thinking of Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin and some other artists who are more into IDM rather than dnb...
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 1:03 AM
I dunno what that word means but i guess it means stuff that keeps repeating itself....?
Anyway , i LOVE dnb , but funny enough , i only listen to it at parties cause it's ape-going music. I dont really listen to it at home or on my iPod.
Anyway , i LOVE dnb , but funny enough , i only listen to it at parties cause it's ape-going music. I dont really listen to it at home or on my iPod.
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 1:06 AM
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I dunno what that word means but i guess it means stuff that keeps repeating itself....?
Anyway , i LOVE dnb , but funny enough , i only listen to it at parties cause it's ape-going music. I dont really listen to it at home or on my iPod.
my mistake, it's spelt *repetitive: nvolving doing or saying the same thing several times, especially in a way that is boring.
I listen to liquid DnB at home, very relaxing material. I always feel like, somebody's watching mee
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 1:13 AM
A cd i love to listen to at home is : London Electricity - Billion Dollar Gravy.
For example.
But at party's i like sickass DnB that's almost breakcore man. The dark hard stuff with sick bass !! But i can't listen to that at home. Only somehwere with 300 other people who go ape!
For example.
But at party's i like sickass DnB that's almost breakcore man. The dark hard stuff with sick bass !! But i can't listen to that at home. Only somehwere with 300 other people who go ape!
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 2:06 AM
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How the fuck do the French make amazing music that is so fucking repitative? and yet you don't even notice it!
man, this took me way to long to type :x
By working only 6 weeks on an album ?
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Posted 06 June 2006 - 3:12 AM
i fookin love drum breaks me, i do like the amen but its a bit ubiqutous now, a bit like apache became.
one of my faves is shack up by banbarra - really crisp mid-tempo break, very cool.
i did a search for an example and found this page - http://banach.lse.ac...RUMS/drums.html - theres loads of classic breaks on there to tuck into :D
also jack mcduff - hunk of funk is really cool, very rolling, nice easy groove, and the head hunters - god made me funky is also wicked - really tough kick action ;)
ahhhhh drum beats (drooools)
one of my faves is shack up by banbarra - really crisp mid-tempo break, very cool.
i did a search for an example and found this page - http://banach.lse.ac...RUMS/drums.html - theres loads of classic breaks on there to tuck into :D
also jack mcduff - hunk of funk is really cool, very rolling, nice easy groove, and the head hunters - god made me funky is also wicked - really tough kick action ;)
ahhhhh drum beats (drooools)