exground filmfest | 21 | wiesbaden | 14-23 nov 2008

 
   
 
   
 
         
 

youth days > international youth film contest > love, peace & beatbox

   
 

LOVE, PEACE & BEATBOX
by Volker Meyer-Dabisch
Germany 2007 Betacam SP 70 min. OV

Script: Volker Meyer-Dabisch, DoP: Andreas Gockel, Ralf Netzer, Peter Sebera, Hendrick Lier, Production: Karl Handke Filmproduktion, with: Protagonists of the Beatbox-Scene in Berlin

Hiss, chirp, crackle, creak, squeak, gurgle, drum or simply plop – there isn’t a single sound that accomplished human beatboxers can’t imitate with their mouth. After rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti, beatboxing or mouthdrumming is widely regarded as the fifth element of hip hop. As in many other big cities, a rich and varied music scene has emerged in Berlin in recent years, one that includes one of Germany’s most popular bands, 4xsamples, who are the current team battle vice-world champions. Founded by DJ Mesia, BeeLow and Maxim, who was murdered in 2003, the beatbox championship has now been exported to countries as far as Australia. As an art form that originated on the street and still feels most at home there, hip hop thrives on a mixture of improvisation and virtuosity – and this is exactly what beatboxing is all about. In this way, beatboxing takes hip hop back to its roots.

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