Thanks for letting the people know. Of course the original DRUM & BASS tune that was named drum and bass was made in 1988 and was not influenced by the amen break, it was influenced by an earlier style of JAZZ called STEP MUSIC. You youngsters would not know that. The first DRUM & BASS tune was made by a white man in 1988 who asked a black DJ to promote the style in 1990 because most white people did not like the style at that time. It was 2 years after that time in 1990 that the AMEN style started to become popular to white people and did not keep going for long because HARDCORE as it was called was too hard and fast to be popular to all music lovers. Then in 1994 DRUM & BASS was truly in the mainstream and if you know your DRUM & BASS tracks there were many tracks associated with STEP and called STEP and STEP music reached it's peak in 1998. Some might say that JAZZ STEP killed off jazz radio because it was so good that when it was no longer the mainstream style' people expected more and lost interest in the other styles of jazz. Roni Size made crossovers with JAZZ STEP influencing DRUM & BASS with the track BROWN PAPER BAG that relates to the 1950's when people said that JAZZ was embarrassing and people should put a brown paper bag over their head in public to hide their faces. THE AMEN tracks originate from STEP JAZZ that is a 2 BEAT LICK that originates from the late 1950's. That is what inspired that style and all the other step styles. You can hear the similarities. NOW YOU KNOW SOME REAL ORIGINS. Youngsters.

Is that Richard James (Aphex Twin) pictured on the left at 4:34?

Please dedicate a vid to Stakkers - Humanoid 1988

man did I choke up when that part of the video came. First image of him smiling when they pin the creation of the break to him and I was like "wow, thank you, hope you lived to see all that"... then, less than 5 minutes later there I was speechless to the fact he died homeless and had no footage or register of him talking about it or anything.

@@Cloudkusanagui Sadly he lived to see al that...he saw how many people lived off of his invention! :(

Yeah a lot of top artists were dead poor. Van Gogh included.

Another unappreciated artist

@@Marquis-Sade Too right. Where did it all go wrong? He should have been a billionaire.

Facts

she said 'more than 2000' so shes technicaly right

I mostly produce metal and industrial and we use the fuck out of it.

not just dnb, but it’s offshoots like breakcore which wouldn’t exist without the amen break

For officially released tracks, I’m not sure I would say millions, but definitely more than 2000. Whosampled lists 6312 tracks (as of nov 8 2023) tracks that use amen break. Keep in mind this only includes officially released tracks and not KZfaq creators making their own unofficial songs and stuff like that

Not as cringe or cliche but yeah

Or that one squeaky gate noise that everyone uses

ty i was thinking the same damn thing lol

Yes! I can't believe I just learned about it today. He is a legend and should be recognized and remembered as one of the greats! And more artists who have had their work sampled and not been acknowledged deserves to now! It's time to teach everyone about the past amazing geniuses who have laid the groundwork for music today!

An absolutely amazing sample. It's just telling of the times that we live in that Gregory Coleman died in 2006 when he was homeless! His music is responsible for the explosion of electronic music, such a shame he died on the streets without his legacy being acknowledged.

@@jpeter3508 that is such a terrible shame. I'd love to be able to pay my respects somehow.

Good to see the GoFundMe for the Winstons

Nah, not really. When my brother first started learning drums as a kid, he came to this beat on his own, and I'm sure that's the same for many.

The first time in history that a birth was birthed

Pretty sure he was a heroin addict

@@georgebaggy does that mean he doesnt deserve to earn from his art???? stupid argument and you should be ashamed to categorize people like that, if it is even true!

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32087287 It's true. He drove his family's finances into the ground and they separated from him. As the cousin of a heroin overdose victim I know how it all goes down. Many of them are beyond help because they refuse to help themselves. The guy didn't die homeless because others sampled his beat (which he wasn't even the copyright holder for). He died homeless because he made asinine life choices that led even his own family to abandon him on the streets.

I was one of the original 2000 who donate. They pulled it at 25k . He should had got about 500k .

@@georgebaggy Thanks for the source you have another one on the Details of Coleman? I didn't see that info on the article other than his death of Heroin addiction and homelessness at 2006

i love that

I'm laughing out loud at this and realize I do the same thing as your cousin 😂

welcome to the real world I guess

ok

Hip hop was not born from amen break.

Know your history....it ain't just about beats and rhymes

I don't necessarily think that's true. Electronic music has always had a massive live following so a lot of samples that might never be approved for use in recordings are still heard and shared at clubs and raves.

The power puff girls break comes from Funky Drummer

@@StylistecS it's the same but another bpm 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@@julimorro no is not the same dumbass

Exactly!

That's the funky drummer break, both the amen and funky drummer are used in a lot of jungle and other songs but are totally different sounding

but you know how expensive the Fairlight was? And Hardly anybody beyond the major label industry even knew that that was. Maybe she should have said the first AFFORDABLE.

The Fairlight was the essence of Yello and The Art of Noise 💪🏼

The first sampler was really tape ;) But yes, the Fairlight was probably the first commercially available digital sampler. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music) & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampler_(musical_instrument) are both an interesting read.

No one said it was first sampler.

Cringe

😂

That’s all you got out of this video?! How sad of a person are you?

that's the "Funky Drummer Break" i believe (on looperman)

I am the

Not only that, it wasn't until 1995 that the sound shifted towards drum and bass and two step, with Alex Reece's Pulp Fiction

Save the date for my next video. You might hear this sample.

Lemon D

Renegade, Omni Trio, Foul Play, DJ Zinc, DJ Aphrodite, Dillinja, Higher Sense, Invisible Man, Hokusai, JMJ, DJ Pulse....

I thought it was him- Thanks for confirming

@@myriaddsystems Arched Maid

So true, imagine if music that used glitchy noises, breaks, drums and bass could do something with this

@abyssosque And imagine we called it Drum and bass because it has drums and bass in it. It'd be pretty sick. Too bad no one would do that

The Tuss indeed. I was sad it took so long to finally find him mentioned.

totally

That's definitely him. Good spot!

Is that Richard James (Aphex Twin) pictured on the left at 4:34?