History of the Amen Break

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History of the Amen Break

Although Nate’s voice is rather monotonous, I found this 20-minute video interesting. The Amen Break has certainly melded into the collective audio unconscious. I’ve realized how common this break is now. :expressionless:

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this documentary is worth to be posted twice! :slight_smile: always good to know your roots

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Has it really been posted already? My searches turned up nothing. :B
And I really need to expand on my DnB section.

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Been posted more than twice :B still a good vid tho.

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This one is also pretty good.

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Awesome documentary, ended up watching again recently it in one of my courses this year and I was like “hell yes! jungle tunes!” as soon as ‘original nuttah’ came on.

I’ll school you in a little bit of it sometime, it’s great music :slight_smile:

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amen brother

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Interesting stuff. The commentator’s voice reminded me of these guys.

http://djfameorshame.com/2010/12/13/i-want-the-bitches/

scamo

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Yeah this is wicked. Just goes to show, the smallest things can inspire massive movements. :sunglasses:

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First time I’ve seen that, so I appreciate the post.

Particularly enjoyed the last few quotations about sampling and how copyright laws can have an adverse effect on the creation of new music.

I thought the monotone voice worked given the context :slight_smile:

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hey guys while we are in the topic of the amen break, just wanna share my remix of the winstons’ amen brother that i did for my school assignment

its a house/electro/brostep remix of the 1969 funk classic

comments and feedbacks please :slight_smile:

https://soundcloud.com/ivan-zilch/deadpixel-amen-v1-unmastered

as a part of my school assignment i need to get people’s feedback and document them in a marketing research essay, so please kindly let me know what you think :slight_smile:

i still need to do some final touch ups and mastering but the whole idea is pretty much here

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Um, other than part with the original amen break, is it used elsewhere in the track?

scamo

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No but the main melody is taken from the original song “amen brothers” if you have a listen to the original 1969 song you will hear what I mean

The main idea is to remix the actual Winston’s song rather than recycling the amen break alone

If you warp the original 1969 song into 128 bpm and mash it on top of my track they merge together (sounds really cool ) but I am not allowed to sample anything from the original track other than the drum loop haha

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It has of course been posted in this topic:
The Drum & Bass Thread (formally Drum ‘n’ Bass is dead?)
(Only the longest drum & bass topic on a forum. :wink: )

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I just thought you could have used the amen break drum beat in more of the song. But, you’ve gone for a more electrohouse almost dubstep style, which is ok too.

scamo