The world's most important 6-sec drum loop

[AspirinE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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








The message in the end of the video, about coprights is great.

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i watched the first 10 minutes and got the gist of what it was about, intresting and all but the voice was hell of annoying although as soon as he played the loop i recognised it, its been used in just about everything

[AspirinE]

i watched the first 10 minutes and got the gist of what it was about, intresting and all but the voice was hell of annoying although as soon as he played the loop i recognised it, its been used in just about everything

Watch to the end theres an important message about copyrighting in the end.

[pawel]

I ain't watched everything yet, but I heard the beat now, and I was just listening to NWA, and they used it in Straight Outta Compton (the track)
EDIT: oh, now they mentioned it in the video also

[$0 R3@L]

great video

so basically sampling could be done without law suits being inflicted but now the fat cats in suits saw the popularity of sampling grown and they wanted to cash in on it?

[Hadez]

they have that drum pattern on the Power Puff Girls theme song

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they have that drum pattern on the Power Puff Girls theme song

lmao

[Hadez]

they have that drum pattern on the Power Puff Girls theme song

lmao

got it right here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ErdQbGutZE

[4D]

Cool, finally had the patience to watch it all. Very interesting man, I wasn't expecting that message at the end. I was expecting it to be a morally militant bashing to the ear-drums about illegal sampling and downloading. But, it was cool that he actually uncovered some evidence to the contrary. Greedy money hungry whores cuttin thei nose off to spite their face. Sickening really, they'd prefer charge people and make less money off it than give it away free and make more money. It's the same with illegal downloading. I think it's fair to say when we download an album of an artist, it's mostly to check it out, if wwe were gonna buy it, we'd buy it regardless off the availability of free downloadas. Because most people collect albums, games and movies of the things they're fans of. It's nice to have the original, I`ll always buy the albums of the artists I've always loved. But, being able to downloada more stuff freely, actually makes it easier to choose what's worth buying, so I would want to buy more stuff now, than what I would previously. It's ironic, but it's true.

That is an amzing little beat in those valuable few seconds, it's in so many t.v shows and movies too.

Nice find there Asp, props!