Remember These Faces: The Online World Beatbox Championship is a Glimpse into Beatboxing’s Future
Online beatboxing still carries stigma, yet if you want to see new talent and innovation, look no further than the coolest beatboxing Discord servers
As the Beatbox Community releases videos from their 2022 Online World Beatbox Championship (OBWC), the online beatbox scene has flooded from Discord to YouTube, populating the comment section with supportive recognition. The routines and songs performed on the championship livestream are familiar to the Discord faithful, products of months of collective training and workshopping in sub-channels, jams, and small online battles.
One such faithful fan hopped in the comments of the loopstation quarter final between Rusy and 808Banon, referring to Rusy’s second round as “THAT TRACK,” a comment which makes sense only to those who know the Japanese looper’s back catalog and battle history.
“If you've never been in Jam 1 you do not know where beatbox is going,” says David Tverskoy, aka DKoy, the twenty-one year old owner of Beatbox Community.
