The 20-second break was part of a song by the Winstons, a multiracial soul band. Despite the Amen break's seminal popularity across music genres, the Winstons never received royalties. Nobody ...

Six brief seconds of sound altered the entire direction of modern music. Known as the Amen Break, this famous drum solo became the most influential sample in recorded history. The origin begins in ...

Don’t mess with classics, they say, and drummer Merlin Mathews - co-founder of drum and percussion loop/sample library The Beat Shed - is happy to agree that you can’t improve on the “perfect” Amen ...

While one often listens to songs or albums in full, sometimes you just want to lay down a simple beat. [todbot]’s latest project promises to do just that. The build relies on a Raspberry Pi Pico or ...