About Me
MARK BOOMBASTIK born 1978 in Hamburg`s notorious "Schanzenviertel"- started doing Human- Beatbox in the age of 12 after his acoustic- guitar broke into pieces because somebody stepped on it during a party at his flat... Improving his technic and style Mark Boombastik became the only experimental human beatboxer. Through the years he`s worked with a lot of different people, from Hamburg`s hip hop scene (Trainingslager,Fischmob) to electronic musicians ( Hofoku Soshi, Funkstoerung,Patric Catani) besides doing his own incredible live concerts all over Europe. " Since the whopper got stock in the throats of the Fat Boys in the middle of the 80s,nobody ever created such a thunderstorm of fat beats of all colours with his mouth." Mark Boombastik puts his very raw and tight beats through special analogic effects so that he creates his songs live. His pure intensity is equipped with an attitude that doesn`t leave no doubts . Meanwhile Mark Boombastik lives in Berlin and is recording a new album with Tara Delong (NYC). In July `05 Anaerobic Robots ,his project with Felix Kubin and Jake, released a fabulous mini-album on Gagarin Records ( "Anearobic Robots" ,12"). His teeth are stroboscopes,his lips a million amps,his tongue a billion drum-rolls. Check it out while he is checking in. Releases: "Denshi Sushi" (Hofoku Soshi / Plattenmeister) "I hate art galleries " 7" ( feat. Felix Kubin / Meeuw Muzak) "Egoist" ( Solotempo / Spezialmaterial) "Disconnected" (Funkstrung / !K7) "Brandy Cramps" (Candie Hank / Wilko) "Lassolegs" ( feat. Gina V. D`Orio,Disco Cabine / Lou Records) "Anaerobic Robots" ( Anaerobic Robots / Gagarin Records_____________________________________________________
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________TARA DE LONG is an international rapper performace artist and voice of rap..s new school currently residing in New York City. Tara has collaborated with artists such as
Khan, Snax, Kid Congo Powers, Patric Catani, Mark Boombastik, Gina V. D..Orio, Make Believe TV and many others..
Tara grew up in a small town in rural Illinois. A decorated high school basket ball star, career she headed to New York city. That is where her music career began.
She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City but dropped out after one year and began freestyling. She soon found her way to Manhattan..s the lower east side scene.
That is when she met Snax and the duo formed New York city..s original lo-fi hip hop group Bedroom Productions. The duo was known for their legendary infectious live sets.
Can Oral aka Khan Bedroom Productions at a loft pary once and they became part of New York most obscure record label: El Turco Loco.Bedroom Productions proceeded to release two LPs on Khans El Turco Loco label titled Bedroom Productions , which featured the underground classic: Socialism New York City and Fast Cars Fast Women which featured classics like: Money Star Hustle,..Mariposita and No Es Ese Tipo de Fiesta. Other releases include: This is How We Roll these days: Hotel Lotte Cologne, Black Sabbath Riot Remix :El Turco Loco, Blood on The Passport Matador, as well as various compilations on Harvest Germany.While in New York City Tara continued to push the boundries of music and performance and politics. It was the odd mixes at parites like Rotten Teeth, her brainchild with Khan as well as was psuedo german girl group Geschwindigkeit that shaped New York..s late 90..s downtown scene.. She was a music curator one of the original founders of the PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art Warm- Up music series. What was to be her last performance was in response to the police brutality in New York City was censored by the New York City Police department in which Rollingstone referred to it as one of the top moments of censorship in the 1990s.In the summer of 2000 Tara then headed to Mexico City to start working with arist Daniela Rossell on the highly contrversial photo/ video project Ricas y Famosas... Traveling and documenting fueling a sense for the third world.
Tara began rapping in Spanish and in 2003 released her first all spanish cumbia Soy Machina on Epic records. In late 2003 Tara reconnected with ex-Atari Teenage Riot member Hanin Elias and joined her Berlin based Fatal recordings to release her solo album You Do The Math in 2004.
It was in Berlin that Tara met human beatboxer Mark Boombastik and the two instantly hit it off. In spring 2005 Tara asked Mark to join her on they tour and in the summer of 2005 began recording.
Tara returned to New York in the fall of 2005 and began her project called the The Worst. During the course of 2006 she has toured Europe and continues to provoke New York..s downtown scene. She is currently in the studio mixing and recording her new release, preparing her video for the hot single Business and preparing a new project with Barcelona artist Slyvia Prada.
