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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hoth

A Wehrmachtsgeneral whose troops played a central part in an increasingly hopeless battle in a harsh, snow-covered environment? Named Hoth? What a crazy coincidence...

(This post was brought to you by my reading "The kindly ones/Les Bienveillantes/Die Wohlgesinnten" by Jonathan Littel. A real bastard of a book, but very rewarding.)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Feindflug - Roter Schnee

A short documentary on the Amen Break , quite possibly the most widely utilised drum loop in modern electronic music. Chances are you will have heard it before lots of times.
And even if you are not interested in this six-second cornerstone, I recommend you listen to this as it makes some very good points about the way that copyright in music has been handled in the past and is handled now and what this means for future musicians wanting to use samples from existing musical works in their music.
(Thanks go to P-A-L, who posted this on his Myspace)