Comments on: The Amen Break http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/ An Irish Community weblog about everything Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: krynn http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262823 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:37:33 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262823 i could prove it if i had nothing better to do. its not central to all of it. i dont say the perfect cadence (which arguebly) sums up the entire harmonic basis of western music came from a single source. it goes back thousands of years for many reasons. and so does the particular rhythm in question, which has been tagged by a minority to have originated as the amen break! no way. its been around for ages. i could prove it if i had nothing better to do. its not central to all of it. i dont say the perfect cadence (which arguebly) sums up the entire harmonic basis of western music came from a single source. it goes back thousands of years for many reasons. and so does the particular rhythm in question, which has been tagged by a minority to have originated as the amen break! no way. its been around for ages.

]]> by: PeterR http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262238 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:04:50 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262238 Not sure about the point there krynn, and not sure when exactly you could prove it 'would have happened anyway'. ...not to start an argument - obviously the break itself was one catalyst and major player in a cultural movement that may have been destined with or without its direct influence... But what's significant is that a mere six seconds of recorded sound, ripped from original context, can be central to all of that and much more besides. Not sure about the point there krynn, and not sure when exactly you could prove it ‘would have happened anyway’.

…not to start an argument - obviously the break itself was one catalyst and major player in a cultural movement that may have been destined with or without its direct influence…

But what’s significant is that a mere six seconds of recorded sound, ripped from original context, can be central to all of that and much more besides.

]]> by: krynn http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262037 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:32:43 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-262037 i can guarantee you without the amen break, it all would have happened anyway. i cannot prove this (right now), but i certainly believe it. the amen break is overated. brilliant documentary though. well informed. i could get a billion examples of 'the amen break' in music well b4 'the amen break'. in bach, african drumming, sitar music, perhaps even in bird song, in nature. it transferred itself to an inevitable drum beat. u could argue that this transferance first occured with the 'amen break'....therefore it is special. hmm. i can guarantee you without the amen break, it all would have happened anyway. i cannot prove this (right now), but i certainly believe it. the amen break is overated. brilliant documentary though. well informed. i could get a billion examples of ‘the amen break’ in music well b4 ‘the amen break’. in bach, african drumming, sitar music, perhaps even in bird song, in nature. it transferred itself to an inevitable drum beat. u could argue that this transferance first occured with the ‘amen break’….therefore it is special. hmm.

]]> by: Anima http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-261679 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:27:45 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2007/01/30/the-amen-break/#comment-261679 Saw this before. Quite good and definitely worth a watch if you like drum and bass or any kind of breakbeat driven music. Saw this before. Quite good and definitely worth a watch if you like drum and bass or any kind of breakbeat driven music.

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