{"id":1150,"date":"2011-08-15T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T20:03:39","slug":"the-history-of-the-worlds-most-important-music-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/the-history-of-the-worlds-most-important-music-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the World&#8217;s Most Important Music Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the &#8220;Amen Break,&#8221; a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music &#8212; a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison&#8217;s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SaFTm2bcac?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the &#8220;Amen Break,&#8221; a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music &#8212; a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/the-history-of-the-worlds-most-important-music-loop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The History of the World&#8217;s Most Important Music Loop<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,327],"tags":[1455,1460,1456,1457,14,157,112,1459,1461,4292,255,467,1012,1458],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-videos","tag-amen-break","tag-amenbreak","tag-breakbeat","tag-breaks","tag-dj","tag-electronic-music","tag-hiphop","tag-history","tag-mainstream","tag-music","tag-old-school","tag-samples","tag-sampling","tag-turntable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}