>Slightly off topic, but I'm assisting in teaching a course on >electronic
>dance music at UCLA, and I'm doing a talk on >breakbeat/drum and bass.
That's awesome! I would love to take/teach such a class...
How about these course offerings:
Evolution of electronic music
A survey history of breakbeats
Introduction to Hip Hop
The recontextualization of African Music and it's implications
DNB 101
Sampling, copyright law, art and you
>I would really like to get hold of the Winstons' "Amen my Brother," >in
>order to show the class the initial context for that rather >ubiquitous
>breakbeat. I just lost a bidding war on eBay and I'm >looking for other
>ways of getting hold of this track. Anyone have >any ideas?
Fuck E-Bay Dale! Try this:
http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 1 . . . LP . . . $8.99
Monkees "Mary Mary"* / Bad Bascomb "Black Grass"* / The Winstons "Amen
Brother"* / 7th Wonder "Daisy Lady" / D.C. Larue "Indiscreet" / Rufus Thomas
"Do The Funky Penguin"
and while you're at it, I think it might be wise to also play for your
students Lyn Collins' "Think" followed by DJ EZ Rock & Rob Base's "It takes
two" and then the tons of dnb songs that sample the breakdown, the shaker,
the "You Bad Sistah!" James Brown scream, etc, etc, etc...:
http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 16 . . . LP . . . $8.99
Commodores "The Assembly Line" / Johnny Jenkins "I Walk On Guilded
Splinters" / Le Pamplemousse "Gimme What You
Got"* / Marvin Gaye "T Plays It Cool" / Lyn Collins "Think"* / The Galactic
Force Band "Space Dust"* / Steve Miller Band "Take The Money And Run"
Inevitably if you're talking about classic breaks you have to bring in
"Apache" by the Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band:
http://www.dustygroove.com/ultimate.htm
Ultimate Breaks and Beats -- Volume 3 . . . LP . . . $8.99
Cheryl Lynn "Got To Be Real" / Incredible Bongo Band "Apache" / Herman Kelly
& Life "Dance To The Drummers Beat" /
Incredible Bongo Band "Bongo Rock"* / UPP "Give It To You" / Jackie Robinson
"Pussy Footer"*
Probably the most obvious example of sampling your students can relate to is
if you play for them Bob James' "Take me to the Mardi Gras" followed by Run
DMC's "Peter Piper". I think they've probably heard the Run DMC and can
relate.
http://www.dustygroove.com/warehous12in.htm
Bob James -- Mardigras/Nautilus (12" single) . . . 12-inch . . . 5.99
BTW, I don't work for dustygroove but they are a great store! :)
Amen brother indeed! ;)
Pedro Cevallos
--
"...the world is a comedy to those who think and
a tragedy to those who feel..."
-- Horace Walpole --
http://www.geocities.com/mr_cevallos/
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