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amen break

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 ~

YouTube video on the history of the Amen break (via) (via Hg)
“Beginning … as a 6-second instrumental bridge in the middle of a B-side of an obscure Sixties soul record by The Winstons, and charting its evolution into an endlessly repeated/reworked/ simulated/sampled/dissected building block of modern musical culture.”

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