[empika]

BBC radio one recently had a pretty good programme on the Amen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011nyd1

It is a shame that the true pioneers of the break were only briefly mentioned. They would be Equinox, Bizzy B, Breakage, Fracture and Neptune, Chris Inperspective et al.

Around 2006 there was a boom in what has become the "choppage" subgenre of drum and bass, revolving around the Scientific Wax, Inperspective, Bassbin and Mu record labels and the Technicality and Bassbin nights run at Herbal in London. It is a shame the R1 programme did not focus on any of this at all as alot of what came out of that pushed the break to it's listenable limits (Breakcore just baffles and confuses me).

If you want a regular dose of Amen, catch Equinox and the Scientific Wax show playing on jungletrain.com every other Sunday. He will draw some of the ruffest badman tunes you'll ever hear. He is one of the worlds most highly regarded connoisseurs of the Amen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTeToyyYwQ&feature=relat...