Beatbox (club)

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The Beatbox (also Beat Box or Beat Box ) was a club in Wuppertal - Elberfeld , which started in 1988 for the first time in Germany and on the European mainland with rare grooves , i.e. newly interpreted sounds from the fields of jazz , house , hip-hop , breakbeat , Introduced reggae , funk and jungle into the German club scene. The founders of the club were Markus Kammann, Heribert Meuser and Andreas Dahm.

Kammann had contact early on with the London DJ Gilles Peterson , who had a point of contact with the club on the European mainland and played here on a monthly basis, often bringing still unknown musicians and bands into the beat box. Many later internationally known artists such as Cassandra Wilson , Jamiroquai , Galliano , Coolio , House of Pain or A Tribe Called Quest had one of the first appearances here outside their home countries. Other DJs working here included the British Tim Westwood . Club employees opened the Groove Attack record storewho moved to Cologne in 1992.

The club had to close in 1996. In 2013 it was reopened in the same location with slightly different staff, but only had to cease operations a few months later.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Kammann: Views of a Music Crazy. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 1, 2010, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gilles Peterson's DJ profile. In: Acid Jazz Radio. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Schyma: New Electronic Music in Cologne: Scenes, Streams and Cultures . Cologne July 4, 2002, p. 62 ( Blumenamostplatz.de [PDF; accessed on June 23, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Christian Tjaben: Musical hub. In: ByteFM Blog. November 3, 2009, accessed on June 23, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Cora Theobalt: Great reopening of the beatbox. In: Rheinische Post . March 1, 2013, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Beatbox: The tenant was terminated. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. August 10, 2013, accessed June 23, 2020 .

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