06 January

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

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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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Comments to “Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop”

  1. Cary Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 13:51:39 omg, amen brother is fuxxin sick! lol @ his pronunciation when he was talking about shy FX's "Original Nuttah"
  2. HLYNN Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 14:14:38 amen amen amen straight outta compton
  3. Talbot Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 14:37:37 This guy seems much to surprised at the inability of copyright to control, well, anything.
  4. URSA Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 15:00:36 YAY i finally listened to the whole thing... and it was great
  5. Montrel Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 15:23:35 Pure awesome.
  6. Ivan Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 15:46:34 NWA- fuck tha police
  7. Zaneta Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 16:09:33 greatest beat ever made in the history of music
  8. MONROE Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 16:32:32 Lee Moses - Reach Out I'll Be There ;)
  9. Linden Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 16:55:31 4:02 what the music plzzzzzz very cool
  10. COLETTE Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 17:18:30 love it
  11. AbderRahman Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 17:41:29 Amazing.
  12. Austen Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 18:04:28 i remmeber this sampled in like 1990 as samplers was getting better with a wow! 8 seconds sampling lengh and it was a wow when you had spent 8,000 on a 2 second one heh the arrangment was good to though usless without a midi computer,but it was for everyone to mess with create music art with your faveroute films and tunes in a ravey way, should never have gone mainstream it belonged to the people. most drumloops on a 6 scale blends nice with anything even hendrix :) not just amen but is cool
  13. Graciana Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 18:27:27 The Round Dance of The cross. Grace dances.I will play the flute.Dance everyone.Amen.I will weep, Lament everyone.Amen.A realm of eight sings with all.Amen.The twelfth number dances above.Amen.The whole universe joins in dancing.Amen.If you do not dance you do not know what is.Amen.I will run away and I will remain.Amen.
  14. Dericka Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 18:50:26 Awsome video, cheers ;)
  15. Braw)eigh Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 19:13:25 "I don't get the purpose of all the analysis about the so-called, "Amen Break"." I believe the point is that this particular break is the one that was sampled and used by many artists, for many, many songs, and as a result has traced its way through history. It's only logical to follow the path it took. This is important stuff to the artists in these areas, and I wish never to shun any attempt at finding good, hard knowledge, no matter how trivial
  16. ABHIMANYU Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 19:36:24 This passage struck me sour the first time I listened, being a big fan of Squarepusher and the song Vic Acid. However, listening to the words again, I realise that he is speaking accurately; the terms he employs have negative connotations, but when I think about Tom Jenkinson's music I realise that most people would view it as fetishism and self-indulgence. He is not saying these pieces are bad, but I feel his words do accurately place the music in the perspective from a main-stream listener.
  17. Bromleah Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 19:59:23 I don't get the purpose of all the analysis about the so-called, "Amen Break". The fundamental sample introduced in the video sounds straight out of James Brown's drummer's repetoire (circa 1962)....common in a lot of jazz-rock drummers around 1970,...a very small, extremely fundamental, ubiquitous and almost "tritely"-expressive part of most versatile jazz-rock drummers' repetoires (Jack DeJohnette, Harvey Mason, etc.). All the talk about "break beats" seems "much to do about nothing".
  18. Thaw Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 20:22:22 peace and love people..peace and love.
  19. Vevila Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 20:45:21 I agree, this interjection of personal opinion mars an otherwise fine little piece.
  20. DANA Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 21:08:20 lol... Well eep eep then. You obviously cared enough to reply to my comment, did you not? No need to get all riled up kiddo. Either way, it is "my opinion" that the narrators opinion was self-indulgent and unnecessary for this piece on the amen break. It could have done without the entire quoted block of text and make it less about his opinion of some "chin stroking art crowd" that he disproves of and more about what it's supposed to be about. The Amen Break.
  21. MALLORY Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 21:31:19 the narrator sounds like audio preview voice..
  22. Aviana Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 21:54:18 in reply to humanvynil.... Gregory Sylvester "G.C." Coleman.
  23. Ballard Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 22:17:17 Gregory Sylvester "G.C." Coleman.
  24. AETHELWULF Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 22:40:16 ha it is used alot in different stuff xD just relieved it, one of the songs from Amored Core has the same exact beat or break
  25. Donnie Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 23:03:15 Yep, well, who cares what you feel? Opinions are opinions. Most of it is displayed as factual events with proven evidence, but I guess his throwing of an opinion in there put your overclocked ape brain into overdrive.

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