Looks like Sonic State has a new Top X coming. This time samplers. BTW, what happened to the Top 20 Weirdest Instruments? Hmm... Maybe they're saving that one for Halloween.
Click here for the trailer for the Top 5 Samplers. Feel free to share your top 5 in the comments. It'll be interesting to see how this one turns out.
via HarriL
A little poll for fun, and no I don't know the answer for this one.
More info on the Amen Break
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ReplyDeleteI just watched this today... looks like coffee stains were in vogue at some time while using a sampler.
ReplyDelete1. Akai S1000
ReplyDelete2. Emu Emulator II, III, and IV
3. Ensoniq Mirage
4. Ensoniq EPS
5. Yamaha TX16W ;-)
Top Twenty Wierdest is still in production, there's just so much of it, we thought we'd try and get this one out first - but dont worry it will be coming
ReplyDeleteKraftwerk was sampled more than both of em
ReplyDeleteI feel good about sampling the amen break.
ReplyDeletePeople confuse the "amen" break with the James Brown "funky drummer" break. Soooo, in light of that fact, James Brown smokes the amen. Jungle and DnB is not as popular on the whole as y'all think. YOU may be all fanatical about it , but little Martha down the block ain't.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 7:39 is right. funky drummer alone was used on a ridiculous number of hiphop tracks from the mid-80's until it was pretty spent by around '90. and that's just one of his tracks. even though "amen" was also used in hip-hop (first one that comes to mind is "straight outta compton") the sheer volume of tracks that used jb's rhythm tracks, vocals, grunts, horn hits, etc. -- it's not even close.
ReplyDeleteand kraftwerk's having created or influenced entire genres of music doesn't mean they were actually sampled anywhere nearly as much as james brown or the amen break.
oh, and don't leave out the S900 if you're talking greatest samplers, at least in terms of influence or prevalence in hip-hop when hip-hop was still all about the creative use of samples.
ReplyDeletecome on, stetsasonic put that shit on the cover of a 12"!
http://img.ban-be.jp/item/150/8122747881.jpg
There would have been no "Come Visit the Big Bigot" without the Akai S612. Or it would have just been tape loops.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks that the Amen break is more sampled than James Brown is an obvious fool that has no knowledge or interest in music or its history. James Brown should be the obvious answer, but it seems that for some reason the ignorant masses still believe that it is Amen, oh well.
ReplyDeleteI may be a fool, but I still say the amen will thrash the JB.... do you guys even know how many Jungle tunes used the Amen alone , I am talking purely released tracks on a daily basis in UK from 88- say 94 alone!
ReplyDeleteAhhh I love the Big Biggot ..tis my all time fav Severed Heads release, that got me sooo excited when it came out and we got a double album in Australia!
I personally know of a few D&B songs that the artists personally told me were not the amen break, but rather a different break that was arranged similarly, though everyone thinks it is the amen break becuase it is synonymous with D&B. I think that everyone just assumes that every D&B track uses the Amen break, when in reality most of them don't/
ReplyDeleteThat goes for Jungle as well.
ReplyDelete"do you guys even know how many Jungle tunes used the Amen alone , I am talking purely released tracks on a daily basis in UK from 88- say 94 alone!"
ReplyDeletedo you know how many pieces of music, period, used funky drummer alone? it even ended up in pop songs (fine young cannibals and george michael come to mind). and there are a few hundred jb samples in addition to that one. not even getting in to tracks by his band members.