> With humanised push/ pull timing and dynamics, live-recorded drum breaks are extremely difficult to recreate authentically on a grid. Here, we’re giving a nod to the drummers – some household names, some unknown – who took their grooves to breaking point.
THE WINSTONS, AMEN, BROTHER
Many of the greatest breakbeats started life as B-sides thanks to the more eagle-eyed crate-diggers searching out beats that nobody else had used. Gregory Sylvester “GC” Coleman didn’t just deliver the quintessential breakbeat with Amen, Brother, the B-side to The Winstons’ 1969’s Color Him Father: he unwittingly invented an entire genre.
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