24 4 / 2012
musiciamfondof: Classic funk. Have listened on 1 or 2 podcasts AND possibly YouTube. THIS rocks…
Amen Brother - The Winstons
The majority of this song is a pretty ordinary funk groove, with a talented group of musicians playing a pretty standard song that, while sounding really good, doesn’t really do anything you haven’t heard before. But then, about a minute and twenty seconds in, it happens. All of the sudden, all of the instruments except the drums stop, and the drummer starts doing this crazy beat that you swear you’ve heard before. But you haven’t heard this song before, had you?
Turns out that’s the Amen Break, maybe the most-sampled recording of all time. This simple drumbeat turned to be so exploitable, so mathematically on-beat and easy to speed up and sound different, that it formed the basis for a lot of different kinds of music, from early rap to drum-and-bass to the PowerPuff Girls’ theme song. It’s become an incredibly recognizable part of cultural history, the kind of thing you’ve heard a million times but haven’t really recognized.
If you’re interested any more in the Amen Break, this video explains it a lot better than I could.
(via hypem)
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27 3 / 2012
propers to arethalouisefranklin:
Aretha signing her contract with Atlantic Records with Jerry Wexler and her then-husband and manager Ted White looking on, 1967.
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27 3 / 2012
Typical street corner in the Uptown neighborhood, North side of Chicago:
“I cant stand pepole,” uh, people.
Somebody MUST’VE had issues. Taken sometime in 2011.
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13 3 / 2012
Visual drama after dark. The 35th St “Lou” Jones-IIT Metra station on the Rock Island Line from Chicago to Joliet. Opened 2011. IT WAS ABOUT TIME.
13 3 / 2012
Girl Scouts at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near North Chicago, Illinois in 1928.
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13 3 / 2012
An excited Derrick Rose snarls at the home crowd after slamming home a fourth quarter dunk during Chicago’s 104-99 victory over New York last night. Rose, the NBA’s reigning MVP, had 32 points and 7 assists in the victory. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
POWER RANKINGS: See where the Knicks and Bulls land
LOWE: Howard to Bulls doesn’t make enough sense
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13 3 / 2012
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