Bubble Sorted Amen Break (opens in new tab)

I anticipated this problem and increased the BPM to get through it in about 30s to see if it'd be worth the time haha.

Funnily enough, there's a drum loop that's also frequently sampled in electronic music from a track titled "Think (About It)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(About_It)

> If you never play the original sample, you never have to worry about royalties.

Even if you do, you don't.[0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34785551

I haven't heard it in the original order many times!

"Samples" were kind of like musical memes in the 1980s. What made for a good sample had a lot more to do with convenience and luck. The sounds that were picked for drum samples had more to do with how useful they were - the dynamic range, how isolated the drums are, how easy they were to mix.

The other famous drum sample - the "Funky Drummer" as drummed by Clyde Stubblefield for James Brown, Stubblefield didn't think the particular drum pattern he used was particularly noteworthy. In that case, James Brown's production choices were actually more key - his signature sound revolved around really crisp drums that he insisted needed to be clear on AM Radio and Jukeboxes. Which is what made it so useful for sampling.

Reminds me of Motown's James Jamerson [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

I’ve heard conflicting accounts about their knowledge and royalties.

While I’m certain they didn’t receive royalties from all artists, I heard many 80s artists did. And Amen Brothers took others to court. So they would have know about the use of the break.

I will admit I haven’t done any independent research into this matter personally. Just echoing accounts I’ve read and taking their reports at face value.

That's true, though there was a community fundraising a while back. Many well known dnb and jungle dj's donated there.

https://ra.co/news/28370

A reminder that your society will be judged not on how the most fortunate lived but how the least fortunate lived. Context still matters but there's a meaningful difference between "Anne Brontë died of Consumption (Tuberculosis), at that time there was no cure" and "Dave died of TB, he couldn't afford the cure at current market prices".

Venjent - We Need Jungle [I'm afraid]

https://youtu.be/isiVdlz8bDY?si=InoeqWTHZ3UaD1sJ

> We're dropping amen selections now?

Futurama theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz8HmN2uvuk

Thanks heaps! I very much love the 'old-school' jungle/uk-hardcore sound and didn't know about these more recent Suburban Base releases, and your other reccs were also great too! Amen break went soooo far!

My particular favourite is in demoscene tracker music where Amen also went all over the place (and sampling more generally too!)

I'm not sure if the below is actual Amen-break (need to ask BrothomStates probably!) but it's certainly in the spirit of it and this is definitely near or at the top of my favourite demos ever, I just find it so damned cool! "The Day the Earth was Born" by TPOLM:

https://youtu.be/rt8cOLZHQ4c?si=Y323k8qog3Tv8uou

Krome & Time - Studio One https://youtu.be/SdelbMo_YZM

Absolutely love this.

High five fellow DnB heads :)

That Source Direct release was out of this world... absolutely beautiful body of work

I actually wanted it to play them as it went, so that it would be <unsorted><sorted> each time through, with the former shrinking and the latter growing.

I was surprised at how frustrating it was to not hear the sorted result at the end.

Would have been cool if it played the sorted ones at the end as a final run through victory lap

Not the OP but I stopped listening pretty quickly because I was confused about how it was sorted.

It wasn’t until I read your comment that I realised the sorting happened while you were listening rather than before hand.

So it's sorting from earliest to latest, really?

That is so much simpler than any of the possibilities I had imagined!

Why wouldn't it work that way? Whether it's a hardware toggle like on iPhone or a software one like in Android, I want silent to mean silent. Not "silent but if a web page decides to play sound it can".

How old of an iPhone does one need to have that switch? My 6S+ has one, but a 15 doesn’t.