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From:
Andrew Cowper
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Date:
Thu, 30 May 1996 14:16:47 +0100
Subject:
(idm) Amen breaks and Stuff.
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Tom Churchill <tom@chrchfam.demon.co.uk> reckons...
quoted 5 lines It also appears in the original form on NWA's 'Straight Outta> It also appears in the original form on NWA's 'Straight Outta >Compton' and the original is taken from the b-side of 'Amen, Brother' by >the Winstons. You'll recognise it instantly as soon as you figure out >which one it is - it's *the* most used break in jungle. Now you've just >got to spot the 'helicopter' and 'apache' breaks...
All this talk of classic breaks has got me thinking... Does anyone ever make their own breaks using single shot sounds out of a drum machine? Me and a mate sometimes get together and make tunes, and we had a go at some jungle but the beats ended up sounding pretty poor and repetitive. I reckon to get anything like the complexity of the breaks in say a Photek tune out of single shot samples would take forever. So do any obsessives actually do this, or do they all work by sampling and rearranging existing breaks? Anyone know/got any thoughts? Cheers Andrew C.