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Nate Harrison on the “Amen Break” – the foundation of jungle/drum&bass

About the “Amen Break” from Wikipedia: ‘The “Amen break” was a brief drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Sylvester “G. C.” Coleman in The Winstons’s song “Amen, Brother”. ‘The “Amen Break”, “Amen”, or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampled drum loops in hip hop, jungle, breakcore and drum and bass music. [...] ["Amen, [...]