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

My favourite is the story of "Amen Brother", a forgettable (?) b-side instrumental by sixties funk band The Winstons that just happened to feature a really sweet break beat ... which went on to spawn an entire musical genre. [VIDEO]

For anyone with 20 minutes to spare, here is a great video explaining the prevalence of the "Amen Break" sample. [VIDEO]

I wish you the best of luck Mdotstrange (if you didn't see it, he posted in this thread claiming BFM actively claimed copyright over the sound of wind.) Yes, piracy and copyright infringement is rampant, but by both individuals and corporations. A great example is the Amen Break. If you've got 20 minutes, I can't suggest this video enough for everyone: [VIDEO] It's in everything from old hip hop, to Oasis' "D'You Know What I Mean?" to the original Futurama theme song! And all used with, according to the creators, absolutely zero royalties. (And they're fine with it, having been told. They get it.)

If you want to go farther down the rabbit hole, this is an excellent 20-minute video about the history of the Amen Break, the "six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures" and the rise of sampling: [VIDEO]

For anyone interested in more thoughts on copyright and (the killing of) culture, I highly recommend this video on the Amen break: [VIDEO] Additionally, this comic is informative and fun: [LINK]

For those who don't know what the Amen Break is, here is the most important documentary ever done: [VIDEO]

The TR-808 is up there with samplers and the Amen Break in terms of defining modern music. If you have twenty minutes, there's a wonderful video explaining the Amen Break that I suggest everybody watch at least once: [VIDEO]

This is a very informative video on the "Amen break" [VIDEO] I am sure most readers have heard it somewhere. It really is ubiquitous.

That's substantially overstating the case. The TR-808 is an iconic drum machine, but you're far more likely to hear a cut-up sample of the Amen Break or the Funky Drummer Break. The importance of the TR-808, TR-909 and TB-303 is largely accidental. These units were a commercial failure and gained cult success largely because they could be bought cheaply. In much the same way, grunge musicians tended to use whatever horrible old guitars were languishing at the back of pawn shops - Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters, Mosrites, Teiscos and Danelectros. In my opinion, by far the most important work done by Roland was the development of the MIDI standard. Ikutaro Kakehashi and Dave Smith moved mountains to get the industry to agree on a common standard. MIDI was the starting pistol for the modern age of music production. [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO]

and that, in turn, reminds me of The Most Important 6 Second Drum Loop [VIDEO] and Raiding the 20th Century [LINK]

Speaking of Wilhelm Screams of music, the Amen break is nearly as ubiquitous as the 808 clap. It helped catalyze Hip-hop, while Rave, and then Jungle and dnb, were virtually born out of that loop as Athena was born from Zeus' skull. [VIDEO]

This is how copyright law is broken. It offers artists next to no protection. [VIDEO] Edit: it really only benefits large companies who have managed to exploit it.

17 Years ago this audio/video explained it all. Props to the artist Landon for laying down the audio to a record and playing the audio (with examples) from the record. 6.8 millions views - the Winstons will never be forgotten. [VIDEO]

Amen! [VIDEO] The very best of jungle was "UK Apache with Shy FX - Original Nuttah". It got a bit of re-release for its 25th birthday (5 years ago) with an intro by Idris Elba. [LINK] Ali G gave jungle a moment to shine: [LINK] And jungle isnt dead its just evolved a bit! Nia Archives - Off Wiv Ya Headz from last year: [LINK] Amen brother, Amen!

This is my favorite video on the Amen break from about 20 years ago that explains the history and more of the context [VIDEO]

If you aren’t familiar with the Amen Break, here’s a now classic 18 minute documentary on the Amen Break and its origins and evolution: [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] great deep dive into the Amen break. this video is from the yt days of yore, nice to see the yt algo still propping it up.

This documentary from 2004 (uploaded to YouTube in 2006(!)) is how I learned about the Amen Break and it's immense influence on the music of the 80s and 90s: [VIDEO]

Here's the video to watch on the history of the Amen Break. It's very in-depth and I highly recommend it. I just noticed it's 20 years old too! [VIDEO]

...and here's a great documentary about this: [VIDEO] This is a video about Amen Break, read from a wax disc which can't survive more than 5-6 plays.