Love, Peace And Beatbox Page #6

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The seminal battler,

in Germany, especially.

He's amazing. I just love him.

He MCs at all the Beatbox battles.

He pretty much invented the scene.

It was a struggle at first, but

now it's a Europe-wide thing.

Worldwide, even.

Bee Low knows

people everywhere.

And practically every Beatboxer

in the world knows who he is.

So, really, all I can say is:

Maximum respect to Bee Low!

Oralic Sound Machines,

Machines, Machines...

For me, it all started when...

Around '83 or '84.

It was a bit different

with me than most others.

I didn't get into it by

hearing stuff from the States.

In my case it all started with me

trying to imitate different sounds.

I actually wanted to do

stand-up comedy originally.

I experimented a lot.

I'd do animal noises James

Brown loops, and stuff like that.

I'd do live performances,

with just a mike.

And it really went

over well, too.

I traveled all over the place.

And then, sometime

in '84 or '85,

someone told me Beatboxing

had its roots in Hip-Hop.

And that someone was Maxim.

I had my posse in Wedding,

the part of Berlin where

I was born and raised.

Maxim's scene was

Kreuzberg and Schneberg.

We each did our thing on our own turf,

but then we got to know each other.

But due to the tensions

between Wedding and Kreuzberg

we'd actually meet

secretly to practice.

Before the Wall fell, we used to

meet at Friedrichstrasse station

'cause it was neutral territory

and the cops couldn't bother us.

We became good friends with the

guys from the BVG transit authority.

They'd turn the key,

a huge wrench, and say,

"Stand clear of

the closing doors. "

And there would be a microphone

and speakers on the left side,

and the same thing

on the right side.

So, we got hold of one of the keys

and presto:
Beatbox in the subway.

Back when I

started coming here

and started hanging out and I

first heard them doing Beatbox,

I thought, 'What's that? '

I was kind of intrigued by it,

but I at first I was too shy

to get up in front of the

guys all alone, as a girl.

But Mesia kept saying, "Come

on, why don't you give it a try?"

I was still scared, but finally

I got up my nerve and did.

It kind of went from there.

I kept at it... and here I am.

Mesia and those guys

were my teachers.

They showed me lots of stuff.

I'm Neves, and my Beatbox group

is called Oralic Sound Machines.

It's been about five years. At

first I wasn't into it at all.

I thought it was really weird,

like:
'What the hell is that? '

But then one day I went

to see Killa Kela perform.

He's from the U.K. And

he's really well known.

I ended up talking to him, and

after the show I was so psyched

that I just had to learn that

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