Don't mess with classics, they say, and drummer Merlin Mathews - co-founder of drum and percussion loop/sample library The Beat Shed - is happy to agree that you can't improve on the "perfect" Amen ...

But chances are, you’ve never heard the original song. In 1969, a now-obscure American soul group called The Winstons released a B-side titled Amen, Brother. Buried within it — at around the 1.26 mark ...

Martyn Webster, a former DJ from the UK, cut his teeth on breakbeats in hip-hop and drum’n’bass in the 80s and 90s. As an aficionado of the latter throughout the Nineties, he learned the story of the ...