The Winstons 'Amen Brother'

[Mikee Merge n C]

We must find a link to this track!
:)

If only The Winstons knew how 10 seconds of drumming would shape our scene over the years that followed!

Imagine how many times 'that' drum pattern has passed through speakers worldwide since its first recording.

Do you reckon their drummer thought 'that sounds familiar!' when he played it?

Like a flashback of the future, kind of thing!

Where would we be without the Amen?!!

[Mikee Merge n C]

The Amen break is arguably one of the most used ever (it's right up there next to James Brown's "Funky Drummer"). Because of the fast speed of the original song, it was used quite a bit in early drum and bass. It's still used today, although not quite as often, as dnb has moved away from chopped breaks. "Amen, Brother" was originally released on 45 in the late 60s and is a pretty rocking song (The Freestylers took huge chunks of it for their "Breaker Beats"). Love that organ.

- Adam Douglas, These Are The Breaks

Here's a sample, but I'm still looking for the entire track!

The Winstons 'Amen, Brother' (http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/gear/music/breaks/amen.wav) WAV
The Winstons 'Amen, Brother' (http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/gear/music/breaks/amen.mp3) MP3

[Mikee Merge n C]

Big up Citizen Kang DOA!
The Winstons 'Amen, Brother' [Alpha Omega Records] (http://www.secondtonone.com/sounds/bboy5/amen%20brother.wav)

[DJ Chemical]

I know a certain someone with this on vinyl!!!



:cool:

[Mikee Merge n C]

Lucky him!

[DJ Chemical]

Originally posted by Mikee Merge n C
Lucky him!

him?

[Mikee Merge n C]

Her?!

[BAZ]

Originally posted by DJ Chemical
I know a certain someone with this on vinyl!!!



:cool:

WHO?

[Mikee Merge n C]

Bumped for Tricky

[Misdemeanor]

Yea everyone should take a minute to check this out!!! quality little bit of dnb audio history ..or whatever u wanna call it! :)

[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by BAZ
WHO?

Innit.

Chemical have you got it? :hyper:

[Jibba]

I remember our music teacher from year 8 showing us how to play the amen on the drums...he called it the 'rave beat'

He also let us play 'rave 92' in one of our lessons once!

Mr Hobbs - legend :funk:

[Mikee Merge n C]

Rave 92 was what we used to say before giving each other dead arms!

:funk:

God knows why...

It just sounded kool to go up to a mate and say "Rave 92 eh ergh ergh!!" in a bleepy way whilst giving them a jab!









We were 11. Thats how it works.


:D

[Mikee Merge n C]

But anyway, your teacher is :funk:

[azonica]

I've got it on 7'' :cool:

[rogue]

Rave 92? fookin quality...:funk:

amen break? fookin quality...:funk:

[DJ Chemical]

Originally posted by Mikee Merge n C
Innit.

Chemical have you got it? :hyper:


you'll find it on The Grid(DOA)....Crom's sticky thread has nearly every break that you'll ever need to write a dnb track.................:)

[Mikee Merge n C]

No you turnip - you said you know somebody who has got it!

'It' being the original release!

EVERYBODY has got the break innit bruv!

:D

[Nicodemus]

Originally posted by Mikee Merge n C
The Amen break is arguably one of the most used ever (it's right up there next to James Brown's "Funky Drummer"). Because of the fast speed of the original song, it was used quite a bit in early drum and bass. It's still used today, although not quite as often, as dnb has moved away from chopped breaks. "Amen, Brother" was originally released on 45 in the late 60s and is a pretty rocking song (The Freestylers took huge chunks of it for their "Breaker Beats"). Love that organ.

- Adam Douglas, These Are The Breaks

Here's a sample, but I'm still looking for the entire track!

The Winstons 'Amen, Brother' (http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/gear/music/breaks/amen.wav) WAV
The Winstons 'Amen, Brother' (http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/gear/music/breaks/amen.mp3) MP3

you can buy it on ebay man

[Mikee Merge n C]

NKH Studio have produced a short documentary about the Amen Break...

To stream / watch the MOV: Left Click Here ( http://www.nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html)

To download / keep the MOV: Right Click, Save Target As... Here (http://www.nkhstudio.com/assets/amen_web.mov)

:)

[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by Nicodemus
you can buy it on ebay man

Well, you can buy anything on EBay! heheh..

I'm just on about getting a stream of the entire song or something for peeps who never heard it, loike...

;)