Sunday 12 October 2008

The Story of the "Amen Break"

I came across this audio lecture the other day, v. interesting.

Its amazing how a huge number of dance/techno tracks from the late 90s were sampled from a single drum loop.

The loop in question was not generated by a synthesizer (as is often misunderstood to be the case), but is a cut from a "live" 8 bar drum break on the 60s soul track "Amen Brother". That track has such an incredible vibe that it has been "sampled" by just about every dance music artist of the last 15 years...

... including Caution Wet Paint. Listen to our music back catalogue - can you spot it?

- El Maestro

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ah, who moved the comment box...