video - the world's most important drum loop

[daveman]

amazing twenty minute narritive video based on 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.

link:

http://nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html

mirror link:

http://www.archive.org/download/NateHarrisonCanIGetAnAmen/amen_web.mov

i don't know a whole lot about the history of mixing, sampling, and creating music, but i ran into this today and found it really interesting. amazing that one break influenced the history of so many styles of music. the video runs a little long, and not much happens in the video. just listen to it all the info is in the narritive and the music.

[shosh]

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interesting

[Kinetic]

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Squarepusher made whole albums with nothing but this break as a beat.

[geoffgulley]

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aside from the narrator being as colorful as a drive through nebraska it was an interesting and well researched project.

[picklemonkey]

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agreed. well-researched and interesting... just a shame it's monotone.

[Wanni]

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Very cool.

[daveman]

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aside from the narrator being as colorful as a drive through nebraska it was an interesting and well researched project.

ha ha, yeah i just had it playing the background listening to it while i was working. could use more energy, but i was so intruged that i kept on listening to the whole thing. considering the net is so full of stupid videos, this one shocked me at how educational it was.

[geoffgulley]

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he'd been better off having al gore narrating.... he invented the amen break.

[Kobe]

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interesting, great quote at the end about the overprotection of intellectual property

[ZendoBro]

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Very nice layout. Very informative. I didn't mind the narrator's voice.

[Kobe]

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I think I've been hypnotized

Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen

[DancingQueen]

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thanks for sharing....pretty interesting documentary....the guys voice wasn't all that bad

[Hos]

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K B I L L Y

[Hos]

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good to hear original nuttah again.

[feather]

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Reminds me of Digweed on Kiss way back.