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A drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Sylvester Coleman, otherwise known as The Amen Break, has been described as "the most sampled loop in music history".

The post Sub Focus on the Amen break: “Everyone has manipulated these tiny bits of audio hundreds of thousands of times – theres loads of ways of interpreting this small batch of source material” appeared first on MusicTech.

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