The world's most important 6-sec drum loop

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The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop

If you haven’t seen this before i would highly suggest checking it out !

Summed up - its about the history of the Amen break, its influence its had on culture and its use without the fear of violating copyright laws.

Its pretty amazing what 6 seconds back in 1969 has done for us culturally, i find it a shame that this sort of thing is not being allowed to continue :disappointed:

If it wasn’t for the Amen break we wouldn’t have drum and bass, i hate to think of all the other cultural movements we have missed out on because of such strict copyright laws.

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Well worth watching…thanks for posting!

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No problem, glad you enjoyed it :slight_smile:

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Thanks Bento

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enjoyed it!

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WOW, I love stuff like this!

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as I said on another post:

my favourite tee :smiley:

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where can we get that shirt?

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Video is called “Can I Get An Amen?” by artist Nate Harrison, and it’s a recording of his art piece where you enter a room, go up to the SL1210 and put the needle on the record yourself. Only a single acetate of the recording was made to highlight the impermanence of the… zzzzzzzz. Sorry, fell asleep there.

He also made a video about the history of the Roland TB303 called “Bassline baseline”.

http://nkhstudio.com/pages/popup_bassline.html

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Yeah, I saw that a few years ago. Really interesting

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Its hard to believe that a 6 second loop has changed electronic music history

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chemicalrecords.co.uk

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Don’t forget the Funky Drummer. :wink:

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First watched that about 3 years ago now was like wow!

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Ive had it on my myspace for ages but i figured you guys would like it so i figured id post it here - the roland video fatlimey mentioned is also super interesting.

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Awesome video, now I want my amen brother shirt too

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Awesome Video!

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Thanks Bento!

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quite scholarly. More please!

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I’ll admit I didn’t know anything about this. Very interesting! Thank you…

I just wish more people would be so open with their copyrights. There’s a difference between over-sampling and the use of something old to make something new. But I guess if people could figure out where to draw that line we wouldn’t have this problem.