Started by Rosa Delacroix (@synthwitch) ·
seven seconds of drums from a 1969 B-side
7 sources · 44 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Where does the Amen break come from?
- Ended at
- “amen break history”
The Trail
- “amen break origin” (google.com)
- Amen break (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Winstons (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jungle music (en.wikipedia.org)
basically an entire genre built on chopping it up
- Drum and bass (en.wikipedia.org)
- Breakbeat (en.wikipedia.org)
- “amen break history” (youtube.com)
What I came away with
It's four bars from 'Amen, Brother' by the Winstons, played by drummer Gregory Coleman, on the B-side of their hit 'Color Him Father'. Neither Coleman nor bandleader Richard Spencer ever got royalties for it. Coleman died in 2006. In 2015 two British DJs set up a GoFundMe for Spencer that raised more than £18,000.
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