The Amen Break
Les dejo un “recorrido musical” por el breakbeat amén, el más famoso breakbeat (entiéndase patrón rítmico) y sampleo (entiéndase sonido reutilizado) de todos los tiempos. Todo el mundo lo ha escuchado, aunque no sepa de dónde vino. Y lo que es bastante injusto, es que “Los Winstons” (sus creadores) nunca habían recibido un solo centavo por ninguna de las miles de canciones que lo usan.
Hasta ahora, que se ha creado un sitio a través del portal goFundMe.com, donde la gente puede hacer donativos voluntarios a tan valiosa aportación al mundo de la música. Dejo la liga por si quieren unirse a la causa. Deberían, seguro hasta lo han bailado…
The owner of music’s most influential sample is finally getting paid
The “Amen break” is arguably the most important 6 seconds of music ever recorded. With the popularization of sampling, the 4-bar drum solo (originally from The Winstons’ 1969 track “Amen, Brother”) become a mainstay of early hip hop, before being sped up and chopped to become the breakbeat that defined jungle, drum ‘n’ bass and techno music. Despite it featuring in many, many successful tracks, The Winstons never received any royalties for use of the sample, something that a new crowdfunding campaign is hoping to fix. A GoFundMe page tilted “The Winstons Amen Breakbeat Gesture“ is looking to raise as much money as possible for Richard L. Spencer, The Winstons’ lead vocalist and “Amen, Brother” copyright holder.
Spencer has always maintained he and his fellow band members deserve compensation for use of the sample. In a 2011 interview, he lamented that Gregory Coleman, the drummer that played the famous break, “died homeless and broke,” and urged musicians that had found success using the sample to give something back. After just a day, the total raised by the campaign stands at over $4,500 — just a fraction of what the sample has earned others, but not a bad start….
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