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Legendary video

and its still so very very relevant in so many genres

Still listening in 2024

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Y’all must also give credit to Rodney Mills! Mills was the Sound Engineer at Studio One in Atlanta in 1969 for the Winstons for both their A Side (Color Him Father), and their now famous B Side (Amen Brother) AKA the now famous drum solo known as The Amen Break. Mills was the guy who actually started the Amen Break by recording it first.

Thank you for sharing this video

THIS blew my mind. Just, WOW.

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I have a friend that sampled this video and made a fat, funky breaks tune. He sampled the " I wanna talk about drums " part. Shout out Kyle cross

Every year or so I have to watch this vid. Takes me back to my roots 😁

Is this really lathe cut into vinyl just for this video?

the record came out the same month we landed on the moon.

0:23 Skrillex sampled this in his unreleased track "I Know Who You Are."

Genius. Even 18 years on

Is this the namesake of "breakcore"?

If you can’t dance to that Squarepusher track, just take another half & wait 20 mins.

In K-pop right now: Itzy’s - No Biggie, New Jeans - Super Shy (an ode to Power Puff Girls which also samples it in their intro theme) and Twice - Rush all samples from this Amen Break drum beat. I’m not hating, it’s cool to see Gen Z and Alpha’s eating this classic track up.

Here in 2024 to note that this is all happening again with AI.

Man I love rewatching this.

The best part is when he says “here, I’ll play it again” *plays it again*

Love drum and bass! Love its syncopated absursity!

It would've been easier to get a drum set and make your own beat over slicing and dicing a pre recorded one

This is one of the greatest videos ever uploaded to RUclips. I watched it when it came out and came back to show it to my wife today because we heard an Amen Break song and I wanted to explain it to her. Very well done sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman 🥂

Wow, 20 years after this was initially recorded and its wild to think how well its held up today. Seeing that the original audio was recorded to a dub plate that only lasts about 50 plays and this video has been viewed nearly 7 million times is simply incredible. Even the fact that i can comment on this video is astounding to me. Hearing about the evolution of the Amen Break, and knowing that there's been 20 years of development and innovation in all these mediums is a bit humbling. I hope we can all keep iterating and sharing our unique and beneficial contributions to humanity and the world. Much love ❤️ 🌍

I think this is one of the most important videos on RUclips 🙏

The orginal Winston members are true musical champions for not leaching off all of the uses of their drum break. <3 them.

1:18 @ 1.25 speed for Jungle / Drum and Bass 🤘

This video is especially relevant considering society's confusion of how AI generators are using copyrighted data to produce multimedia content. "A society free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally richer then a controlled one” - Lawrence Lessig

This video is still profound even 20ish years after the sound was pressed to acetate. It has endured into an age where others have told the continued story. "What is immortality? I will tell you -- they don't know your name, they have seen not your works, and yet your presence is felt everywhere. Nothing is forgotten, but is instead absorbed into the mass. Immortality is when one's story becomes a story told and understood by the innumerable. A body may die, but such stories endure in endless permutations."

Still perfect, after all these years!

Yall need to share this video with more people before it turns 18 in 2024, and makes a amenbreak for it.

I still reference this as one of the best informational RUclips videos, all these years later. I recommend it to all my friends that care about music.

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Best video on the Amen break on RUclips and it's 17 years old.

Amen

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Ive sped it up , slowed it down, twisted it in unthinkable ways and made several tracks with this one loop. After I discovered it, it changed my life. Its extremely sad that the person who played this, dies poor and homeless. RIP legend

When you were talking about the garage music I was over here holding my breath in anticipation of you playing my man MC grinda from korrupt FM wif a k, yeah? We spell it wif a K...'frow your Ks up, innit?

Yo I think that's the beat that Slipknot uses for the beginning of spit it out, I think it was that song anyway yeah now that I'm replaying it in my head it is

NIN - "Starf*ckers"

Most of the reissued stuff sounds like a mess.

Most early hip hop artists, by their own admission, sampled the solo break of Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown's drummer) on a song called Funky Drummer.

Thank heavens the title of this video identifies this video as a video. Otherwise someone might not realize it's a video!

I write beats with dnb jungle hip hop drums when needed .....

wow born 74' dnb edm hiphop

Possibly the greatest youtube video I have ever seen

I think it's a mistake to say that this beat originated in 1969 with The Winstons. Essentially the same rhythmic pattern can be heard on earlier recordings, such as "Memphis Soul Stew" in 1967 by King Curtis (several recorded versions, both studio and live performances, with Bernard Purdie on drums), and "Sweet Pea" in 1967 by Tommy Roe. See also drummer Clyde Stubblefield's beats in James Brown recordings such as "Cold Sweat" (1967) and "I got the feelin'" (1968). There are countless variations on this beat, but it is *essentially* the same beat used by The Winstons on the Amen break.

It's strange to call this a video when it's really just an audio recording of a record... or a dub plate, which apparently looks exactly like a record. Kind of confusing.

Let's talk about finding the artist and making them whole.

The real question is - if they never released that track would hip hop , jungle and dnb ever been a thing .... Probably would but it's possible they wouldn't