{"id":87614060,"date":"2006-06-04T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614060"},"modified":"2006-06-04T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T22:12:49","slug":"the-amen-break-a-history-of-a-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614060","title":{"rendered":"The Amen Break (a history of a sample)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/music\/A_video_explains_the_world_s_most_important_6-sec_drum_loop_%28Amen_Break%29.\" target=\"_blank\">digg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile?user=mobius32\" target=\"_blank\">mobius32<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the &#8220;Amen Break,&#8221; 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 &#8212; a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5SaFTm2bcac\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5SaFTm2bcac\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via digg and mobius32 This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the &#8220;Amen Break,&#8221; 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 &#8212; a six-second clip that spawned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}