Amen break ( born Amen break ) - drumming, written by Gregory Coleman . Sounded in the composition “ Amen, Brother ”, published in 1969, was subsequently often used as a sample in hip-hop and drum and n-bass .
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Description
A drum solo with a duration of 5.20 seconds and consisting of 4 bars was sampled from the song “Amen, Brother”, released in the 1960s by The Winstons . The song is an accelerated instrumental adaptation of old gospel music. The Winstons version was released on the B Color He Father EP EP in 1969 on Metromedia [1] and is now available on a 12 "record along with other songs from The Winstons. Amen was often used in early hip-hop tracks and sampled music, and is the basis for many drum and bass tracks.
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Like many other samples, the copyright story is very complicated. Neither the drummer Gregory Coleman, nor the copyright holder Richard Spencer , the Grammy Award winner and the creator of the hit Color Him Father, have received any royalties for using samples.
At the end of 2015, as a token of gratitude, British music lovers collected 24,000 pounds sterling, the check for which was handed to Richard Spencer (the direct author of the sample fragment Coleman died in 2006) [2] [3] .