"Amen" EMP presentation

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http://www.nkhstudio.com/pages/popup_amen.html is the audio/video version of a history of the Winstons' "Amen" breakbeat. Pretty damn cool, especially for me, since it was happening at the exact same time as my "Apache" presentation in a different room at EMP!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I watched this when it go linked on Dissensus. I quite liked it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

that makes sense--I haven't looked at Dissensus in months.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

That makes sense too haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

heh heh

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Loved it. It beautifully sums up a lot of my own personal theories about sampling, breakbeat culture, and intellectual property. (I like that he touched on the sample CD craze of the early 90s, and that the entire presentation was on dub plate.) Any post-secondary school with a contemporary music history course should be showing this!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

or law school with an intellectual property course.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 30 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

That too.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 30 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, great film. Apparently there another video about the one on the 808 too.

Anybody know any films about the 303? the Hoover? the "cut the midrange, drop the bass" sample?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Uh, the same guy actually has a film on the 303.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

And the famous "Hoover" is a stock sound on the old Roland Juno synthesizer. It's called "What The?" It's also been called a Mentasm, after the Joey Beltram record of the same name.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

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