Great article on the BBC news site about the sister break to the Funky Drummer, the Amen Brother break. On a track by 60s R and B group The Winstons it has been copied 1500 times apparently by everyone from salt n Pepa to Oasis. No-ones had any royalties as (I think) you can’t copyright a rhythm. Now there’s a fundraiser towards one of the men behind it. Read the article, includes a pretty good mash up feat Bowie, prodigy, Winehouse et Al to show what they mean.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32087287
For some reason I thought it was Funky Drummer on all of those tunes, but seemingly not! It’s good to find out something new like this. The article is quite funny if you read it a certain way; the indignity of not being paid combined with the open admission that the source track itself was cobbled together from bits and pieces of other tunes.
It’s used on most Jungle and D’n’B tracks.
This had a 5-minute spot on today’s PM programme at 5 on radio four as well.
they do it in wood as well