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Beat boxing

Nsambya Road, Kampala, Uganda

A 5-minute field recording by radio continental drift made in Kampala, Uganda on 26 July 2010, in the evening. Soundscape: streets & traffic.

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Beat boxing
5:05CC BY-SA 3.0by radio continental driftInternet Archive
5:05
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Recordist's notes

…after a day of making recordings with members of the Breakdance Project Uganda and its founding director, Abraham ‘Abramz’ Tekya, I catch up with a group “relaxing” in freestyle “beat boxing”… http://bouncingcats.com A playlist of recordings in 39 clips from Kampala, “Emboozi ya Kampala”, is archived at: http://www.archive.org/details/Emboozy_ya_Kampala and remixed in a “road movie” at : http://youtu.be/7DGNPNNcvGM

Written by radio continental drift on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Kampala is a city of about 1,680,600 people in Central Region, Uganda. OttoAnna lists 9 field recordings from here.

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