What are some of the coolest beats tha you've ever heard?

"Sunshine of your love", ubiquitous but totally turns our idea of rock drum beats upside down. I always wonder why most people dont seem to play this beat as it was recorded...

Anything by Tony Allen, but "Expensive Sh#t" is a great example of how unique and singular his approach was.
 
70s Gadd was pretty damn awesome. 50 ways & Aja being the obvious ones. Even his playing on the Guilty album approaches drumming from a different angle that just works.

The Purdie Shuffle is a daddy groove but who doesn't appreciate a good shuffle?
 
Anything by Stewart Copeland (my drum hero). Especially early Police stuff.
 
Nice choice!

Two programmed ones come to my mind that I always found so cool:

Breathe by The Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllmm7Q4sj0
-> notice the awesome reversed crash that always stops on 3+

Jein by Fettes Brot (German hip-hop band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcV7VN3l3bY
-> not too spectacular but it bounces very nicely

Back when I was a wee lad, Prodigy and Crystal Method were my JAMS!

ConcertToms said:
Anything by Tony Allen, but "Expensive Sh#t" is a great example of how unique and singular his approach was.

Fela Kuti! YES! You just reminded me of the Pan African Orchestra: https://youtu.be/VrB0cBExUhw
 
Another vote for Tony Allen here. I saw him only last week at a festival in London. When I found out what he was actually playing on Fela Kuti's Water No Get Enemy, I thought, man alive, you kept that bass drum pattern going for 12 minutes? (Which is short for a Fela Kuti track!)
 
For me it's not necessarily the specifics of the groove that get me, but rather, how the groove is played.

There's something about how the drums are approached on this track that I have always really liked. On the surface it's very basic drumming if you break it down for what it's is in terms of strokes, but whoever drummed this track has a watertight pocket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqDZOekUDzE
 
Thats not Clyde????????

It's not, mate, it's Beau Dollar.

The Daps' bass player, Tim Drummond, joined the James Brown band proper, JB's first white musician. He went on Brown's tour of Vietnam with Clyde and a stripped down band. If I remember correctly, Drummond got sick over there and had to pull out of Brown's band afterwards.
 
It's not, mate, it's Beau Dollar.

The Daps' bass player, Tim Drummond, joined the James Brown band proper, JB's first white musician. He went on Brown's tour of Vietnam with Clyde and a stripped down band. If I remember correctly, Drummond got sick over there and had to pull out of Brown's band afterwards.

Cool, thanks for the info!!
 
Very nice! Thanks again brother....I can never learn too much about James Brown and co.
No problem, my friend. I've always thought the toughest Clyde groove is Mother Popcorn, with all those ghost notes before and after the backbeat, AND he's playing quarter notes on the hi-hat, which makes it even more difficult.
 
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