The Amen Break comes from Amen, Brother, a 1969 B-side by American soul group The Winstons, with the drum pattern played by Gregory Coleman. Hip-hop producers began sampling it in the 1980s, and British jungle and drum-and-bass producers made it a foundation sound in the 1990s. Because the break is short, punchy and easy to chop, it travelled through countless records, edits and online clips, and it remains a shorthand for high-tempo breakbeat energy today.