The 20-second break was part of a song by the Winstons, a multiracial soul band. Despite the Amen break's seminal popularity across music genres, the Winstons never received royalties. Nobody ...
A six second drum break from The Winstons‘ “Amen, Brother” (the b-side to their 1969 hit “Color Him Father”) is arguably the most famous “break” ever. The “Amen Break” has been sampled on countless ...
The “Amen break” is one of music’s most beloved and essential samples, ranking up there with “Funky Drummer” and “Think (About It)” as the most used breaks in hip-hop, dance and rock. Snatched from ...
Richard Spencer sits in his living room in Wadesboro, NC. What do Salt-N-Pepa, Amy Winehouse, Oasis, and the theme song to the animated TV show Futurama have in common? Six seconds. It's called the ...
“If you’re a drum ‘n’ bass producer you just become familiar with the varieties of Amen,” says Sub Focus, recognising that, not only is this classic break a cornerstone of the genre, but also that it ...
The process of sampling breakbeats has allowed castoff moments of unaccompanied drums to take on new lives as the crucial backbones of songs decades later, but no little loop has gone onto such a ...
Don’t mess with classics, they say, and drummer Merlin Mathews - co-founder of drum and percussion loop/sample library The Beat Shed - is happy to agree that you can’t improve on the “perfect” Amen ...
The Amen break is a drum riff created some 50 years ago by a funk and soul band called The Winstons, and they've finally started getting some recognition. What do Salt-N-Pepa, Amy Winehouse, Oasis and ...