Some sampled loops are instantly recognisable, but there are very few that have shaped entire genres: the 'Amen Break' is most certainly one. The Winstons were a funk/soul band from Washington DC who ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gregory C Coleman's brilliant four-bar break from The Winston's 1969 cut Amen Brother is one of ...