http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-levee-break/ Music, Technology, Evolution Fri, 18 May 2012 20:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-levee-break/#comment-629 Ethan Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:54:03 +0000 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/?p=942#comment-629 Levee is definitely not the most-sampled break. It might be in the top twenty, though. Number one is probably either <a href="http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-natural-history-of-the-funky-drummer-break/" rel="nofollow">the Funky Drummer</a> or Apache. Levee is definitely not the most-sampled break. It might be in the top twenty, though. Number one is probably either the Funky Drummer or Apache.

]]> http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/the-levee-break/#comment-628 Torey Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:38:10 +0000 http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/?p=942#comment-628 Nicely said! I'd known about a lot of uses of 'levee' - I recall reading somewhere that it is the most often sampled beat in hip-hop. I have no idea if that's true or not, but this is a great illustration of the 'Levee Effect'. Now are you saying that Robert Johnson didn't steal all that stuff from Robert Plant? Nicely said! I’d known about a lot of uses of ‘levee’ – I recall reading somewhere that it is the most often sampled beat in hip-hop. I have no idea if that’s true or not, but this is a great illustration of the ‘Levee Effect’. Now are you saying that Robert Johnson didn’t steal all that stuff from Robert Plant?

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