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Amen Break

Art, Music | 01 Mar, 2012 | 219 Comments | 18 mins

This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," 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 -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate[...]

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Music, Social, Strange | 07 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 10 mins

This documentary explores a subculture some have never heard of: VJ. VJ is a video performance art mixing different medias and projecting it on to large screens often with other performance art. All of the mixing is done live and creates a truly unique[...]

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Scratch

Music | 12 Oct, 2010 | 1 Comment | 87 mins

Wicky wicky wicky. We have all heard this sound effect if you have listened to music in the last 25 years. The scratching of a vinyl record is key to most all hip-hop songs. Scratch is a 2001 documentary chronicallying the lives of several famous "turntabalists" who subscribe to a  sub-genre of hip hop called[...]

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