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In 1969, a Soul/Funk group called The Winstons had a hit with a song called "Color Him Father". On the B-side of the single was a song called "Amen, Brother", an Instrumental version of the Gospel Music standard "Amen". It contained within it a 5-second drum solo. This drum break, called the amen break, has the distinction of being the single most sampled piece of music in modern history; WhoSampled.com lists nearly 5,000 recordings that have used the Break. Every genre, from Hip-Hop, to Techno, to Rock has used it at one time or another. It is one of the most ubiquitous pieces of music in modern pop culture. Whole genres of music owe their very existence to it. The genre(s) of Jungle and/or Drum'n'Bassnote some people use the two terms interchangeably; others insist the latter is a subgenre of the former are pretty much built entirely around the creative use of the Amen Break; sometimes chopping the sample into tiny pieces and building completely new beats out of pieces.
It can be heard here. Hear more about its history here.
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WinBack: "Intro", "Factory", and "Boss 3".
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Many day stages in Sonic Unleashed. If there isn't one, boosting will fix that, as every time you boost, the song gains lots of reverb and an Amen Break track.
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Clint Mansell – π Soundtrack: "Ï€r^2" and "2Ï€r"
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NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams: The boss music for the first fight against Cerberus.
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Nightshade (2003):
"Jade Water"
"Sensei"
"Jimushi"
"Monochrome Arch" (bass only)
"Iron Shogun"
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Multiple tracks from SimCity 4.
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The King of Fighters 2001 - "Fighting Spirit No. 3", "Flame of Invincibility"
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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA: In X, "Cute Medley ~Idol Sounds~" samples this towards the end of the song.
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Haven (2020) - "Nothing but Rust"
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Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel - "Σ" (It's faint but it's there.)
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Metal Gear:
"Yell Dead Cell VR Remix" - Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance
"Taking on the Shagohod" - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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Persona 5 Used in the title song for the original release titled "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There"
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LittleBigPlanet:
Squarepusher – "Planetarium" in LBP2.
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Undertale: Photoshop Flowey's theme is one, see also Toby Fox - "Your Best Nightmare / Finale"
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening:
"Battle Music 1"
"Cerberus Battle"
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Dynasty Warriors Had this in Lu Bu's Theme in Dynasty Warriors 6 (the theme itself gets remixed every game) as the intro and a recurring beat.
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Twenty One Pilots – "heavydirtysoul"
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Combat Instinct - "Darkside Style" by Professor X, as used in the first stage of the third game.
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Castle of Shikigami 3 - "Flower's Jam" (Yukari Horiguchi's boss theme)
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RayCrisis: "There is No Sense Unless Everything is Arranged Completely", "Lavande bleu", "BLUE - The Day You Live on the Earth".
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San Francisco Rush series: "Tinkletoon" from Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA, along with Noon from Rush 2049(Dreamcast version).
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DonPachi:
Hibachi's theme in Dai-Oujou and Daifukkatsu.
Stage 1 theme (Ran) in SaiDaiOuJou arranged album (exclusive for Saya).
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Goldie – "Chico: Death of a Rock Star"
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Yoshi's Woolly World: "Snifberg the Unfeeling".
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A good majority of the music from Street Fighter III consisted of edited versions of the famous break. Example: the track "Killing Moon"
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Game Grumps Remix - "Hey Mr. Wilson"
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Noisia – "The Tide"
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Rage Racer - "Lightning Luge"
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2 Live Crew – "Feel Alright Yall"
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Futurama: It plays in the theme song.
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N & S – "Dead End"
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CHVRCHES – "Violent Delights"
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Sonic the Hedgehog:
"Knuckles Boss" -Sonic Advance 2
"Main Theme" - Sonic Heroes
"Endless Possbilities" - Sonic Unleashed
"Perfect Dark Gaia" - Sonic Unleashed
Many day stages in Sonic Unleashed. If there isn't one, boosting will fix that, as every time you boost, the song gains lots of reverb and an Amen Break track.
Not just Unleashed, a few tracks throughout the series since 2004 use the Amen Break. You can find almost two tracks that use the beat in nearly every game in the series since then. This is largely down to Tomoya Ohtani. When questioned about it on his Facebook profile, he attributed it to being his favorite beats sample. But yeah, Unleashed pretty much features it the most prominently.
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C418 – "If you don't know what to do just steal the amen break"
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Slipknot – "Eyeless"
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Cal Chuchesta – "cocoa (nmesh's whack cal zone remix)"
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Syphon Filter 2 - "Club 32"
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Frequency - "End of Your World"
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Clazziquai Project – "Cat Bossa"
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Squarepusher – "A Journey to Reedham"
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TWICE – "Cheer Up"
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P.N.03 uses variations of the break throughout its soundtrack, including the main boss theme, and Mission 10.
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Quake II uses a slower version of it in "Descent Into Cerberon", making it a rare and interesting use of the sample in industrial metal.
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100 gecs – “Gec 2 Ü�
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Nelly Furtado – "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)"
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Venetian Snares – "Aaron 2"
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Yoshiki Hayashi of X Japan, in some of his drum solos.
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Shock Troopers:
"Operation Explaination"
"Select"
"Neo Tokyo 2015"
"Dark Matter"
"Jungle Rhythm"
"Breakfast Science"
"Nu Era of Technology"
"Last Stage"
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"Foregone Destruction" by Michiel van den Bos a.k.a. the music to the map "Facing Worlds" from Unreal Tournament.
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Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - "Romulus 3".
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Music Tropes
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 Back to Black (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Clazziquai Project (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 ClintMansell
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 Igorrr (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Penisland (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Squarepusher (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Straight Outta Compton (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Venetian Snares (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 X Japan (Music) / int_9f5587e5
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 Amen / int_9f5587e5
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 Beetle Adventure Racing (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 Metal Slug (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 N (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 Nightshade (2003) (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 Nightshade (Kunoichi) (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 P.N.03 (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 Quake II (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 Sonic Rush (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 ULTRAKILL (Video Game) / int_9f5587e5
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 The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show / int_9f5587e5
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