Ali Baba and the 40 Phoenixes (and why not indeed? ;) )
Funky Drummer it is!
The "Funky Drummer" break, performed by drummer Clyde Stubblefield, has been used in literally hundreds of Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, and other recordings, including famous tracks by Public Enemy, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest and Big Daddy Kane. Its use was especially prolific during the 1980s before unlicensed sampling became illegal.
It became very widely used as it was one of very few simple but lengthy drum solos (the entire solo is the loop I posted played eight times) available during Hip-Hop's infancy, when sampling technology was prohibitivly expensive, and the main method of creating beats was a DJ with two copies of the same track and two turntables.
As a session drummer, Stubblefield received no further compensation for the many samples that were taken from the recording.
Over to UP.
The "Funky Drummer" break, performed by drummer Clyde Stubblefield, has been used in literally hundreds of Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, and other recordings, including famous tracks by Public Enemy, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest and Big Daddy Kane. Its use was especially prolific during the 1980s before unlicensed sampling became illegal.
It became very widely used as it was one of very few simple but lengthy drum solos (the entire solo is the loop I posted played eight times) available during Hip-Hop's infancy, when sampling technology was prohibitivly expensive, and the main method of creating beats was a DJ with two copies of the same track and two turntables.
As a session drummer, Stubblefield received no further compensation for the many samples that were taken from the recording.
Over to UP.
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Cheers guys, although I will admit half the info above comes from Wikipedia - But I was a DJ myself in the 90's, before I had to get a mortgage, and I can tell you fron experience that keeping a beat going with two records makes your wrists hurt a lot.
I'm guessing some kind of small rocket, like the ones they used to fire from fighter planes in WW2.
I'm guessing some kind of small rocket, like the ones they used to fire from fighter planes in WW2.
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