Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box

Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box

Directed by	Joey Garfield
Produced by	Joey Garfield Jacob Craycroft Zachary Mortensen
Starring	D.O.A. Doug E. Fresh Biz Markie Marie Daulne Emanon Rahzel Skratch Wise Daddy-O 4Zone Kris Jung (AKA Chris Jung)
Edited by	Jacob Craycroft
Distributed by	Ghost Robot
Release dates	Tribeca Film Festival 2002
Running time	74 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box (2002) is a documentary exploring the world of beatboxing, a form of music using the human mouth, throat and diaphragm to generate sounds that are usually produced by machines. Over 30 practitioners of this art form discuss their techniques and the evolution of their craft. The human beat box is one of the key elements in the development of Hip Hop culture, alongside Dj-ing, Graffiti, Breakdancing, and MC-ing. Unfortunately, its contribution has been largely overlooked, as has the fun, expressive, human, and spontaneous dimension of Hip Hop that it represents. As the first documentary of its kind, Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box uses interview's, live performances, archival footage, and animation to bring to light this important and neglected ingredient of Hip Hop's identity .

With the help of Beat Box pioneers Doug E. Fresh, Wise, Biz Markie, and The Fat Boys, Breath Control traces this art form from its basic beat beginnings in the Eighties to its present day multi-layered, polyrhythmatic figurehead's Rahzel and Skratch of the Hip Hop group The Roots. But Breath Control isn't limited to Hip Hop. Musician Zap Mama opens up the idea that human beat boxing is an art form practiced all over the world and has been refined by many different cultures. Breath Control is a half historical, half tutorial look at humans as actual instruments.

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The Roots

Black Thought
Captain Kirk Douglas
Damon "Tuba" Bryson
F. "Knuckles" Walker
Kamal Gray
Mark Kelley
James Poyser
Questlove

Studio albums

Organix (1993)
Do You Want More?!!!??! (1994)
Illadelph Halflife (1996)
Things Fall Apart (1999)
Phrenology (2002)
The Tipping Point (2004)
Game Theory (2006)
Rising Down (2008)
How I Got Over (2010)
Undun (2011)
…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014)

Collaborations	Wake Up! (2010, with John Legend) Betty Wright: The Movie (2011, with Betty Wright) Wise Up Ghost (2013, with Elvis Costello)

Live albums

The Roots Come Alive (1999)
Jay-Z: Unplugged (2001)

Extended plays

From the Ground Up (1994)
The Legendary (1999)

Songs

"You Got Me" (1999)
"The Next Movement" (1999)
"The Seed (2.0)" (2002)
"Wake Up Everybody" (2010)

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