This is one of those things you see and get angry you didn't wake up the idea first. It's so perfect and just as satisfying as you'd hope. Incredible stuff!
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Samples" were kind of like musical memes in the 1980s. What made for a good sample had a lot more to do with convenience and luck. The sounds that were picked for drum samples had more to do with how useful they were - the dynamic range, how isolated the drums are, how easy they were to mix. The other famous drum sample - the "Funky Drummer" as drummed by Clyde Stubblefield for James Brown, Stubblefield didn't think…
Maybe, but the amen break has a very specific je ne sais quoi that makes it way more useful and pleasant as a sample than almost any other sample. There's just so many situations in the kind of music I make where the amen is like the only loop that fits. Funky drummer might come in second. It could just be its cultural weight has me hypnotized. But maybe its just that good
I’ve produced music through much of 2010-2020, I wasn’t there in the 1980-2010s but it wasn’t uncommon see discussion online about different samples or things like this. Never really seen any mention something like this unquantified “je ne sais quoi” or at least don’t really recall
My take is, it was the first of its kind to widely circulate exhibiting desirable quantities for sampling, a combination of good enough and path dependency. After a certain level of saturation/entrenchment it carried an aesthetic compared to readily available samples (maybe this is what you meant).
Whenever I couldn’t find a breakbeat sample (or wanted some starting point at least) I’d default to it. When I did music production it was very easy to get your hands on a loop but obviously that’s much later.
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#93My personal prize for the most chopped amen goes to Breakage’s Final mix of Equinox’s Acid Rain VIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoKlz6_I4vY
Worlds colliding here. We're dropping amen selections now? Some classics that sound like what the app is sortin': Remarc - Sound Murderer (Loafin' in Brockley Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUdpCVITxc Splash - Babylon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vghx8SEeH8 DJ Krome & Mr. Time - The License https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPa5JBg8hZI Source Direct - Secret Liason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfEWCVoB45s…
Krome & Time - Studio One
https://youtu.be/SdelbMo_YZM
Absolutely love this.
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#94lol, that's the stupidest thing that I've ever watched all the way through with a grin the whole time.
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#95Should I understand what this is trying to show?
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Samplers became accessible at the time which allowed music production with just loops. Look at snap I got the power. All looped samples
I mean, look at any house or hip-hop track, sampling's like the most fundamental part of both genres. The track you've mentioned is the prime example of the blend of those two genres. Before the term Eurodance caught on, this track would be referred to as hip-house (as in hip-hop + house). Chicago and the broader NY area did it first, but it was a Belgian track that first topped the US charts (Technotronic's Pump Up…
> Belgian track
What a wasted chance to say "Belgian techno anthem"!
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#97This documentary from 2004 (uploaded to YouTube in 2006(!)) is how I learned about the Amen Break and it's immense influence on the music of the 80s and 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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Sure. Which is your society though?
Unless you are one of the rare unintegrated humans†, in which case you wouldn't read HN because you don't have any of the necessary technology, there is only a single human society. Given that, we should be uncomfortable about how we're doing on that "least fortunate" thing... † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
So why is it not our society? Are you an unintegrated human, hence why you have the external view on things?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you are one of the rare unintegrated humans†, in which case you wouldn't read HN because you don't have any of the necessary technology, there is only a single human society. Given that, we should be uncomfortable about how we're doing on that "least fortunate" thing... † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
So why is it not our society? Are you an unintegrated human, hence why you have the external view on things?
No need to nitpick. Being one among many in an X, one can perfectly use "our X", "my X" and "your X" to denote the same X, there is no logical error in that.
Now, the connotation is different: saying "our X will be judged by.." spreads the responsibility among everyone and makes it too easy to shift the blame onto the next guy, while saying "your X will be judged by.." stresses on your personal contribution to the X, making it not that easy to shy away.
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#100Would love to hear it unsorting the same array.