For all those people out there who have tried to learn to play an instrument, one knows the difficulty of this task. It takes hard work and dedication, unless you’re one of those “gifted” types. Beatmac happens to be just that. Born in Madrid, Beatmac is a phenomenal artist who has slowly has made his multi-faceted talents meld into one stunning improvisational hodgepodge. Over the course of his BalconyTV video, the man spanned a universe of sounds you could make with a mouth. While playing his keyboard and making beats off the top of his head, he scatted, sang jazz, rapped and beatboxed over top of his already bumping beats. Then, when things couldn’t get better, they did with a nasty dub-step switch up that flowed seamlessly about halfway through his song. Above his shear talent is another key quality that could be the make or break for a lot of listeners—the fact that his music isn’t in English. Doesn’t matter. His rapping flow was so precise and unbroken that it really doesn’t matter what he was saying. To his credit, a couple of his continual chanting hooks had some reasonably understandable English in them. He is touring now with many rap and jazz artists alike, blending his unique sound to make for super charged ear candy. Bottom line, get into Beatmac. Even if it may not be your cup of tea, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the raw aptitude this man possesses. -GS
(Madrid)
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