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, [...]
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Turn Your KORG MS2000 into a Drum Machine with Bass Line and Lead
I recently got a chance to jam with a Korg MS2000B. Released in 2003, the Korg MS2000B is “a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic.”1. The original Korg MS-2000 uses virtual analog subtractive synthesis, has 2 ADSR attenuators, 1 resonant [...]
Favorite: “Something Good” by Utah Saints
Today, I’ve been listening to the original release of “Something Good” by Utah Saints (Jez Willis Tim Garbutt) – a personal favorite of mine from the early 1990s. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the track: ‘”Something Good” is a house music song released by Utah Saints in 1992. It was first included as [...]
Favourite Goa Trance Albums: “Witchcraft” by Sandman (Izik Levy)
Witchcraft by Sandman (aka Izik Levy1) is one of my favorite goa trance albums and probably ranks up there in my top 25 favorite albums of all time (across all musical genres). I heard the album for the first time while visiting Vancouver in late March in 2008 soon after it was released by Matsuri [...]
Amazing New York Street Performance Percussionist and Drummer
The YouTube video below is of an amazing drummer & street performer based in New York, NY: There are other videos on YouTube showcasing this performer. But there’s a disturbing trend in many of these videos (not the least to say the comments) — I didn’t find a single video that mentioned what the drummer’s [...]
