Amen break
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Sep 30, 2026
Kristen RobinsonHOST
Yeah, gotta get that spark.
Kristen RobinsonHOST
One of the most interesting, um, kind of pieces of, of sampling history to me is the Amen break.
Kristen RobinsonHOST
So for those who don't know the Amen break, you've definitely heard it if you don't know it.
Kristen RobinsonHOST
Uh-
QuestloveGUEST
Yeah
QuestloveGUEST
Yeah.
Kristen RobinsonHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kristen RobinsonHOST
So yeah, Amen Break is a break beat.
speaker_1HOST
The Amen Breach.
speaker_0HOST
The Amen Break.
speaker_1HOST
It's incredible.
speaker_1HOST
I mean, it's just a four-bar drum loop, right?
speaker_1HOST
the ghost notes.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
speaker_0HOST
That specific combination of transients made the Amen break endlessly sliceable.
speaker_1HOST
You could just chop it into individual hits.
Seef AnamGUEST
He's having the time of his life.
Seef AnamGUEST
But yeah, like all this, like so much modern shit nowadays goes back to what we were talking about with Amen Break.
Seef AnamGUEST
Where you're taking a lot of influences from electronic music and playing it live and get... their own thing with it
Sam GrovemanHOST
yeah
Rich BunnellHOST
So-
Amanda RogersHOST
That's the Amen Break, right? [laughs]
Rich BunnellHOST
Yes, the Amen Break.
Mike DeFabioHOST
The Amen Break.
Amanda RogersHOST
Yes.
Mike DeFabioHOST
As it is known, yes.
Mike DeFabioHOST
[Amen Break plays] And on Ultimate Breaks and Beats, just the drum break is slowed down t- from 45 to 33.
Rich BunnellHOST
Mm-hmm.
speaker_1HOST
These were machines that could record a snippet of audio, say a five second drum break from an old funk record, convert it into digital data and allow the producer to manipulate it.
speaker_0HOST
A lot of people have probably heard of the Amen Break, which is a famous six second drum solo from a 1969 track by the Winstons.
speaker_0HOST
It is arguably the most sampled drum beat in history.
speaker_1HOST
And the sampler allowed British teenagers in their bedrooms to take that EMN break and chop it into microscopic slices.