The 'Amen Break' is the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music. The 'Amen Break' was a drum-solo performed by Gregory Cylvester Coleman. The break is a frequently used sampled drum loop in hip hop, jungle and drum and bass music. It's 5.20 seconds long and consists of 4 bars of the drum-solo sampled from the song 'Amen, Brother' as performed by the 1960s funk and soul outfit The Winstons.
Nate Harrison's 2004 18-minute 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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Thank You, Gerard. This was one of your coolest posts. Very interesting and thoughtful.
-Aestiva
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