Most of the interesting stuff did not use the amen break, or used it originally. It is true that a lot of DnB and Jungle was awful and repetitive, but that's th

Most of the interesting stuff did not use the amen break, or used it originally. It is true that a lot of DnB and Jungle was awful and repetitive, but that's the case in most electronic genres. OTOH, timeless (Goldie), Modus Operandi (Photek), New Forms (Roni Size) were going beyond the cliches while staing in the genre in the mid-nineties. And then you have the really good stuff like squarepusher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yA8MRphI8w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yA8MRphI8w), the early Amon Tobin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_IjGVWtVY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_IjGVWtVY) or Spring Jeel hack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di6Mrr6yuF0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di6Mrr6yuF0&feature=relat...). A lot of hip hop originally used the funky drummer beat as well, but it has ceased to define the genre a very long time ago.