Viral Program - Outbreak lyrics

I'd like to talk about drums
Or rather about a particular drum beat
I'm sure you've heard it dozens of times before
It's a ubiquitous piece of a pop-culture soundscape
This particular drum beat, or rather this breakbeat
As it is more accurately called, or even more simply just break
Well, this particular break is called the Amen
I find this quite interesting
Hundreds of tracks, dozens of DJs, a number of clubs and events
In effect an entire sub-culture based on this one drum loop
I mean, based on six seconds from 1969
The Amen break

Breakbeat

Centers its aesthetic almost entirely around the deconstruction of breakbeats
This was done by slicing the original six second sample
Into its individual drum hits
The slices could then be rearranged and manipulated
In any number of ways to create new patterns
[...]
Here's what it sounds like

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Hardcore Drum'n'Bass

Where cultural production, at least musically, was full of possibilities
By virtue of being able to freely appropriate from the musical past
To make new combinations, and thus new meanings
The story demonstrates that a society quote
'Free to borrow and build upon the past
Is culturally richer than a controlled one'

Drum'n'Bass

[...]
Combination

Bass lines

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it
Likely nothing since we tamed the fire, is genuinely new
Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion
Each new creator building on the works of those who came before
Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture
Here, I play it again

Break down

New stars are born, and new fan bases are created

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