subgeek's Journal: amen brother

today as i was drifting through thoughts and links of dub, riddims, and breaks, i eventually stumbled upon an audio installation covering some of the history of the amen break. you know the one even if you think you don't.

here's the link for those interested. (requires quicktime.)

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

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Excellent

[elmegil]

Thanks very much for a very interesting piece.

Some random thoughts:

I wish sielwolf would release his essays this way :-)

The first part of that break is the most common beat for me to pound out (with my non-trained hands) on whatever surface I feel like drumming on. Very ubiquitous. Wasn't basically that rhythm behind a lot of "the manchester sound" too? Albeit usually played by live drummers....

I'm curious where you found this, it sounds like a site that linked to this sort of thing might ought to be on

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[subgeek]

I'm curious where you found this, it sounds like a site that linked to this sort of thing might ought to be on my RSS feed list....

the answer is really dull. i saw this on the amen break's wikipedia page [wikipedia.org]. it's in the "external links" section.