King and Nir - Beatboxing, Freestyling, Live Looping!

King&Nir

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Sample Songs

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The loops are recorded live using a 4-channel loop-sampler, and an additional boost is achieved using various effects: an octaver (for the bass parts), reverbs, delays, distortion and the such.

Vocal-FX pedal

Left: loop-sampler; Right: octaver

Pictures

In Action!

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Pictures by Merdi

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Pictures by POE

Shows

Showin' Up!

Saturday, October 7th

23:30

Mike's Place

Tel Aviv

Thursday, November 19th

18:30

The ReUse Project

Pinsker St., Tel Aviv

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