Amen Break
Posted by ben on 05 Mar 2008 at 04:12 pm | Tagged as: music, sound art
Following up on my post earlier this week about the history of the Wilhelm Scream, here’s a video about one of the most ubiquitous samples in contemporary music — the Amen Break. Like the Wilhelm Scream, the Amen Break has been woven into an astounding number of otherwise unrelated works from a wide range of styles and genres. Towards the end, this video also deals with the copyright issues surrounding sampling and appropriation art, and while it doesn’t really break any new ground in this respect, it may be of interest to those who haven’t spent much time with these issues.
Actually, I have always wondered what tied Aphex Twins music together, as well as those Starbucks produced jazz, hip pop groups. The More You Know. (star wipe and swoosh sound)
gotta love dub plate video.
“I would have enjoyed it, for a change, to design a house for a rich man.”