"Hundreds of tracks, dozens of DJs, a number of clubs and events, in effect an ENTIRE SUBCULTURE based on this one drum loop... I mean, based on 6 seconds from 1969."
Some of you may be familiar with this - but I just discovered it and was astounded. I thought it was worth sharing.
SYSTEM-J
Seen this posted almost as many times as I've heard the amen break. But I suppose everyone's got to have that first time experience. For years I didn't realise the amen break was an actual sample, I thought it just referred to the drum pattern. So many lazy journalists and general idiots would call any old-school breakbeat an "amen", which misled me and perpetuated the cycle. This break has been mis-attributed so much. If you listen to a lot of jungle, you get very tired of it. It's almost unusable now, such a cliché and a trope. But I don't personally think this break spawned a sub-culture. There's nothing intrinsic about it to separate it from countless other funk breaks - hence my erstwhile confusion. It's the same basic rhythmic pattern as most breaks. Thousands of tracks might not sound the same without it, but it was never the first break to be sampled, and sample/breakbeat/b-boy/junglist culture would exist without it.
I guess what I'm saying is I'm so worn out by the amen break it's lost the trainspotter lustre to me.
nikhil chinapa
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I guess what I'm saying is I'm so worn out by the amen break it's lost the trainspotter lustre to me.
