Meat vs machines, round thirty-seven, insert coin.
Am making a videoclip in Brisbane* soon for a Kaiju mega monster inspired battle ( eg Godzilla vs King Kong) featuring the talents of beatboxing MC’s Alan Nguyen (Anal Cookie) & Hayato ‘Potato Master’ (who raps in Japanese over crazy beats). Which seems as good an occasion as any to gather in one place, a whole bunch of gobtastic beatboxing related links accumulated in the last few months.
Kid Beyond(.com) – Check his homepage for a crazy video showing how he uses Ableton live software, a midi foot pedal unit and microphone to build up layered loops of beatboxed sounds on the fly. The video cuts nicely between his home studio and and his huge adrenalized live sound.
Jamie Lidell – Live at Royal Festival Hall in 2004(video), whipping it up with a microphone & a table of gear. Feverish beats, vocals and all kinds of sonics channelled thru the mic. Bonus point for his jacket which seems to be made out of VHS tape.
Slayer’s Angel of Death, as beatboxed by Dokaka ( Japan ). Dokaka is also famous for “Katamari on the Rocks”, a beatboxed song for the Katamari computer game, recording ring tones for mobilephone companies & is soon appearing in Bjork’s upcoming Spike Jonze videoclip – ‘Triumph of the heart’ as a ‘hummer at the bar’. Bizzi. And has stacks of mp3s.
*Brisbane is also home to the subtropical heir to the chipcore beatbox throne – Collapsicon (.net), a meat bleep manifesto given human form. No need for game speakers when the boy’s around.
Scrambled hackz – Again if yet unseen, software that can translate vocal input into music videos cut from slices in it’s database. Nutso.
Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box (2002), directed by Joey Garfield
Beatbox videos onYoutube.com? Plenty.
And alas, Japanese (noise?) beatboxer Gulpepesh who graced our shores last year alongside Ove-naxx, appears to be invisible online.