At the Beatbox House, a monthly battle in Bushwick | Brooklyn Magazine
About a dozen concert goers are huddled in a Bushwick back alley behind an artist’s loft called Blank Bamboo, bumming smokes and buzzing over what’s about to go down. “Who do you think will win?” they ask each other.
About a dozen concert goers are huddled in a Bushwick back alley behind an artist’s loft called Blank Bamboo, bumming smokes and buzzing over what’s about to go down. “Who do you think will win?” they ask each other.
For the next four hours, the region’s best beatboxers will trot out their newest routines in front of them at The Beatbox House’s monthly battle, with six beatboxers stage testing their newest material ahead of next month’s Great Beatbox Battle in Warsaw, Poland. Made up of Kenny Urban, Gene Shinozaki (aka Gene), Neal Meadows (aka NaPoM), Amit Bhowmik (aka Amit), and Chris Celiz, The Beatbox House is “a collective of some of the most talented beatboxers in America,” and maybe the world, says Celiz, the group’s founder and unofficial front man.
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Tani Levitt
