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If you want to go farther down the rabbit hole, this is an excellent 20-minute video about the history of the Amen Break, the "six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures" and the rise of sampling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac




fascinating video - curious I searched for Amen Break on whosampled.com and it returned a list of 789 tracks: http://www.whosampled.com/sampled/The%20Winstons/


i estimate that number to be off by tenfold or more




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