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Panama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats

Season 1 Episode 4 | 2m 36s

Yaci, Osvaldo and Darin - three Panamanian youth - go from cowbell to MPC while learning the skills to become beat makers. Check us out Wednesdays for more stories, and beats from Panamanian festivals, schools and prisons. In Portobelo, Panama a Beat Making Lab was established at La Escuelita Del Ritmo.

Aired: 04/08/13
Extras
Beat making challenge number two - Moombahton beat from Fiji samples.
A man in Fiji hits a PVC pipe with a flip flop, and his sound meets a 17-year-old drummer.
The Beat Making Lab crew meets Fijian rapper/producer Dave Lavaki (aka Mr. Grin).
Ben searches for purpose, Masi follows a dream. Fiji Beat Making Lab brings them together.
The first Beat Making Lab was launched at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Fall semester of 2011.
US National Anthem [Star Spangled Banner] + Black National Anthem
Make a dancehall riddim out of our Kora sample.
One of the cardinal rules of beat making is: start with sampled, not factory, drum sounds.
Ina, a Senegalese student, takes a field trip to an Intrahealth hospital to make a beat.
Now it's your turn to create a riddim from a sampled kora.
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Beat making challenge number two - Moombahton beat from Fiji samples.
A man in Fiji hits a PVC pipe with a flip flop, and his sound meets a 17-year-old drummer.
The Beat Making Lab crew meets Fijian rapper/producer Dave Lavaki (aka Mr. Grin).
Ben searches for purpose, Masi follows a dream. Fiji Beat Making Lab brings them together.
The first Beat Making Lab was launched at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Fall semester of 2011.
US National Anthem [Star Spangled Banner] + Black National Anthem
Make a dancehall riddim out of our Kora sample.
One of the cardinal rules of beat making is: start with sampled, not factory, drum sounds.
Ina, a Senegalese student, takes a field trip to an Intrahealth hospital to make a beat.
Now it's your turn to create a riddim from a sampled kora.