{"id":361,"date":"2007-04-01T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2007-04-01T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T10:46:00","slug":"history-of-the-worlds-most-important-drumbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"History of the world&#039;s most important drumbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/table-785882.png\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/table-785869.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nate Harrison&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac\" target=\"_news\">&#8220;Amen Break&#8221;<\/a> \/ 18:08 mins. <\/p>\n<p>This amazing 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 has been 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>I&#8217;m sure you know it and think it&#8217;s a James Brown beat. Well worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Harrison&#8217;s &#8220;Amen Break&#8221; \/ 18:08 mins. This amazing 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 has been 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. I&#8217;m sure you know it and think it&#8217;s a James Brown beat. Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=361\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History of the world&#039;s most important drumbeat<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[160],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}