Track Listing

1. Before All These Electronics feat. Normski (live)
2. Check One
3. Boom Accessories feat. Fallacy & Harry Love
4. Live Session
5. Can't Effect feat. DJ Hype
6. Step Then
7. Jeff
8. Heavy Artillery
9. Live Transmission
10. Crop Circles - Splinter Remix
11. Crop Circles part 2 - DJ Vadim Remix (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179407 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-29
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Its hard to make a beatboxing album.
In making this album Kela was faced with every beatboxer's impossible challenge: how do I get my awesome stage show across in record. The main appeal of Kela and his colleagues is the ability to make so many realistic noises using only their mouths. However, this is something which only really comes across live. To represent it on CD takes away the visual element.

So that leaves you with 2 options when making an album. 1: Keep the whole album pure vocal, with no effects or programming. 2: Treat yourself as an instrument or drum machine, and go ahead to make the music you always wanted to make. Kela goes with option 2.

However, this does not please his fan base whatsoever. They are all buying his album based on seeing him play a live show, which will have been awesome. But when you sit down and listen to the album, you get a very different experience altogether. As a result, this album has received mixed reviews.

Musically it is sound though, a strong debut and a good listen. Not quite a classic, but that's a lot to ask.

Will anyone be able to pull off a beatbox album? Rahzels attempts have been weak (the only tracks anyone listens to are the ones recorded at live shows!)

Look forward to hearing Kela's second outing, backed by BMG it should be a force to reckon with.

showing the majors
First of all, it's clear that this is more than beatboxing, it's multivocalism. That means Kela is using "the voice" as an instrument in all known ways, from beatboxing to singing, to talking, to acting, to rapping, to MCing, writing, sampling, sequencing, effects processing, the works.
All this is crammed into ten tracks, and about seven genres of music, from raw hip-hop to drum and bass and everything in between.
There is a heavy graffiti influence, Kela having worked with artist Solo One on the artwork and publicity. Mister Normski, well known for his TV shows "Dance Energy" and "Board Stupid", less well known for his historic photography ( misternormski.com ), has given the whole thing a feeling of excitement and energy, not to mention many photoshoots and live appearances, supporting Kela's show with MCing and mayhem. Kela has also developed his artwork and collaborated with design freaks Splinterproducts for two years whilst making the album and touring over 300 shows around the world.
Kela is not shy to collaborate and create ensembles for his vocal talents to enrich. On this album we get producers, voice artists, a world DMC champion DJ, rappers, what more could you want from London dance music?
This album has to change the way you think about music making, and lets hope it gives plenty of people plenty of ideas about getting lively in an otherwise dead industry. Wooo haaa!

Buy this stunning, original album!
I highly recommend this groundbreaking, original, boundary breaking debut album from the UK's number one human beatbox Killa Kela. This album will clearly maintain and please Kela's current fanbase but will also undoubtedly bring him hoards of new fans. Stand out tracks are Boom Accessory, Crop Circles and the simply stunningly funky Check One. Featuring Akrobatik, Hype, Normski to name a few greats, this CD is too good. It's fresh, unique and genuinely an enjoyable listen. If you are a fan of Scratch or Rahzel then buy this record!