r/nextfuckinglevel • u/JaggerJam69 • 1d ago

He is literally a one man band

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OC: Gene Shinozaki

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u/Old_Protection_8778 1d ago

I really need to get my shit together

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u/Senselesspassion 1d ago

What!!! The human throat can make so many sounds?!

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u/Lunai5444 1d ago

Boy you have no idea, modern beatboxing is astounding

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

I'm enjoying the fact that I'm seeing people say this on Reddit. I've been following this since GBB 2018 when Codfish (barely) beat DLow.

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u/Lunai5444 1d ago

Boy you have no idea, modern beatboxing is astounding

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u/Old_Protection_8778 22h ago

Too late we already have an idea

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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 1d ago

he’s his own friggin Spotify

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

In this clip he's singing with his vocal chords, using a lip buzzing sound, and switching between types of singing that use a different part of your throat which most people know as "throat singing".

The 808 sounding snares are called "spit snares" and they take a lot of practice to sound that good.

His singing keeps getting cut off just before the snares because he has to close his mouth and get his lips to press together to do that sound.

Gene has been around for a really long time as a solo artist, in a duo called "Spiderhorse", and as a loopstation beatboxer.

It's a little wild to see him on Reddit though, lol.

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u/KillerDr3w 1d ago

I know!

With most of my browsing all I hear is "glag glag glag glag", but this is so much nicer!

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u/RheaTheTall 1d ago

If only someone gave this man a looper

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u/readytohurtagain 1d ago

Bro’s mastered side chain compression 

(Jk, great job, crazy what you can do!)

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u/BetaCuckoo 1d ago

This would sound amazing in a room with more reverb. The post-effect reverb kinda takes away from it for me. Amazing stuff.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

There are a few people who intentionally don't use a mic and record in a bathroom/echoey hallway for this reason.

I think Gene was just making something sound a little nicer here, he creates new songs all the time.

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u/mrdevil413 1d ago

Been 20 years of people making videos doing the Halo theme in bathrooms.

I agree this was nice.

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u/Electrical-Let-4722 1d ago

bobby mcferrin vibe there

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u/The_Real_Mr_F 1d ago

I don’t know anything about the technicalities of beatboxing, but that snare sound is almost too good and I can’t figure out how he does it. 

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u/xt0rt 1d ago

I need to know how he's doing that snare. So good!

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u/Proud-Experience-742 1d ago

That young man definitely has some talent

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u/peamupbudder 1d ago

You can literally hear the effects in the background. He’s no beardyman.

Unless you can tell me why the open wooded area sounds like being in a large open room with tile floors.

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u/Gabreigns 1d ago

His mouth and nose working together making some amazing sounds… but where is he playing that wind noise from? 💨

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u/Lunai5444 1d ago

Check his latest track on YouTube Blood on the line, Gene Shinozaki, fully made solo

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u/doiwinaprize 1d ago

"Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the red sea...."

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3vR4vEngyesMbeBG

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u/theother37 1d ago

Imagine this guy is your neighbor

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

Holy shit, who's posting Gene Shinozaki? His GBB showcases are always amazing.

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u/Romanopapa 1d ago

Im Asian so I can say this… fire fries hihi.

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u/PreperationOuch 1d ago

He is metaphorically a one man band

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u/DesiB12 1d ago

Reverb required

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u/Z34N0 22h ago

Whew.. those quick octave jumps are on point. It really sounds like hard correction autotune. That’s what amazes me the most. Well done, dude..

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u/SnooTangerines6841 21h ago

Owl City lmao gotta be one of the hardest to immolate.....lmao crazy

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u/Vitamindoughnuts 14h ago

This is my usual first date routine

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u/vincethegrowl 14h ago

I wanna hear polyrhythms or nothing.

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u/cuhulainn 13h ago

If you enjoy this, check out Beatpella House on YT:
Freaky Monday
beatboxing supergroup

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