beat box

Alex fluffs his curly hair and then throws in a little beat box.

My favorite moment is when he talked about what it felt like to walk through Harlem in the 1980s, past the Apollo, past Bobby Robinson’s record shop, and how that led to creating “the fifth element” of hip-hop: the beat box.

The Galway Girl singer, based in Suffolk, spoke about his time with Nizlopi during a 2017 interview for Desert Island Discs and said: "Basically, everything from my live set, the way I control my voice, the way I control the audience, the way I play the guitar even, the way I used beat box… this comes from this band."

He had originally been asked to lead a dance segment, but because he had a bad back he decided to create a new feature, “Biz’s Beat of the Day,” in which he taught children how to beat box.

“Beat Box,” by the young Florida rapper SpotemGottem — a thunderous, pulsing sneer of a track — was released just over a year ago.