{"id":156,"date":"2008-05-15T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-07-04T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:22:38","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-amen-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Amen Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5SaFTm2bcac&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5SaFTm2bcac&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video describing the history of the &#8220;Amen Break&#8221;, a sample used in everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=nkPb4s0-QcI\">NWA<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oldschool_jungle\">Jungle<\/a> to car commercials. Fascinating stuff for music geeks like me!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom the Youtube description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This fascinating, brilliant 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 was 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><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some claim the popularity of the drum break can be attributed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2008\/04\/24\/the-amen-break-and-the-golden-ratio\/\">Golden Ratio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video describing the history of the &#8220;Amen Break&#8221;, a sample used in everything from NWA to Jungle to car commercials. Fascinating stuff for music geeks like me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}