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

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This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of 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.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: February 21, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Author: mobius32

Length: 0:18:08
Rating: 4.78
Views: 1,197,570

Tags: Amen break nate harrison jungle

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Video Comments:
300061120 (Monday 6th of October 2008 01:41:16 PM)
Great Job
BS1ukNinja (Monday 6th of October 2008 11:08:51 AM)
nice nice, did i listen to this all the way thru ,,, man i hate come downs !!
KOMAR1111111 (Sunday 5th of October 2008 08:59:49 AM)
ale chujostwo
Malin2k2 (Sunday 5th of October 2008 02:31:59 PM)
Ale jestes idiota jajebie:/ Nie wiesz ocb to po chuj sie produkujesz w ogole w temacie ciulu?
djsilage1 (Sunday 5th of October 2008 03:19:14 AM)
really interesting
r00dd00d (Saturday 4th of October 2008 06:35:41 PM)
all I can say to that is Amen, brother!
BBLENDER (Saturday 4th of October 2008 03:39:13 PM)
wow, awesome video. 5* dammit!
GrimVixen (Saturday 4th of October 2008 11:45:36 AM)
Great documentary.
godhamba (Saturday 4th of October 2008 04:57:10 AM)
Great video. As technology "progesses", and we move forward in this great migration of information to the digital plane, the manipulation of information will become ever easier. Trying to retrofit products of this effort into antiquated laws will become even more farcical than it already is - much in the same way that religious fanatics do with the world around them and the world contemplated by their Book.
philco271 (Saturday 4th of October 2008 02:52:30 AM)
clever vid...it shows in yet another way that Hip Hop isn't about musicianship at all, but is 'factory-made', relying solely upon technology and 'image' culture to move it forward.