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Meet Japanese "human beatboxer" Hikakin (and prepare to be blown away by his video game theme remakes)

Xeni Jardin at 9:48 am Mon, Mar 5, 2012

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Video Link to a short feature on the very popular "human sound machine" Hikakin, who has a growing following within and beyond his native Japan. His YouTube channel is here, and well worth a subscribe. Below, his take on the Donkey Kong theme song.

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    It’s never the sounds they make that impress me; but the ability to make so many at once.  Although I assume it’s mostly clever timing and there probably aren’t too many simultaneous noises, but it just doesn’t compute in my hearing-brain-bit.

  • Lobster

    Needs more wub wub.

  • Nadreck

    Doesn’t hold a candle to Andre Gagnon, who did things like sing all of the parts in “We Are The World”.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcjYpdgTx2A  He did a killer motorboat impression too.

    • twodimensionalme

      Ah, cool, but it’s like comparing Coca Cola to Pizza.
      That’s not exactly beatboxing.

  • OohErMissus

    Mr. Hikakin – we have Michael Winslow and Bobby McFerrin on lines 1 and 2.   They would like to ask you to a beatboxing duel.

  • hypersomniac

    Dude from Police Academy is the illest.

  • Jeremy Duncan

    Aren’t all beatboxers human by definition?

  • http://www.facebook.com/captainkeytar Rogier Van Etten

    He’s good, but it’s hard to be better than Beardyman: 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UzGNiAGeM

    • noah django

       That’s dope!  I saw this guy, Kenny Muhammed, open for the X-ecutioners dj crew a ways back.  also good.  this is him with the NY philharmonic, of all things:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_SEnNq_qE&feature=related

  • Tim Penno

    Can’t-grow-a-beardy man?

  • Jamie Adam

    I’ve seen better. Seriously. I’ve seen better.