The Amen Odyssey: How a Seven-Second Drum Solo Accidentally Engineered Modern Music and Created Jungle and Drum & Bass | Part Two of Three
A Three-Part Series by Tally G The Amen Break Part Two: Welcome to the Jungle: Slicing Up the Blueprint Last week I left us at the time in dance music history wherein a genre called breakbeat hardcore was filling up the dance floors of the rapidly evolving British rave scene during the very late 1980s and early 1990s. The sound of the time was inspired by influential acid house, which quickly evolved from a four-to-the-floor sound to 4/4 breakbeats--creating a new genre in the process--by way of looped drum samples. During this time, early digital samplers were becoming more widely…
