Bummelkasten - Something Specific

Bummelkasten - Something Specific

Bummelkasten's music videos are clicked thousands of times daily. The Berlin-based one-man band has comfortably settled into the German children's music shelves with their entirely mouth-made debut album "Something Specific," delighting children, parents, and non-parents alike. Their songs create a pull that is hard to resist. No wonder: This poppy a cappella beatbox sound, with its intricate arrangements and playful vocal and musical elements, comes across as wonderfully unpolished and entertaining, standing out even in the children's genre. With sophisticated lyrics and quirky humor, Bummelkasten stretches far beyond the conventional, exploring artistic new territory.

"Could you please come!?" – the often-used, politely softened phrase of many guardians – is presented in the eponymous song so insistently and is met with a childish "Yaaahaa" so often that it almost hurts. In "Hiking," a sinfully laid-back song about – well – hiking, the themes of nature and media consumption merge. But it is primarily Bummelkasten's quirky characters that delight children: Max, the escalator-riding toilet paper thief; Susi, the toughest of all princesses who loves to grill pony sausages and drives a monster truck to the bakery; Shiny, the light fairy who treats herself to a trip through the solar system but quickly gets fed up with each planet she visits; and Bulli Battmann, a nasty schoolyard terror who cries into his pillow at night, or janitor Klaus, the smartest janitor ever.

Since the first Lollapalooza festival in Berlin, Bummelkasten has been the resident highlight of "Kidzapalooza," the family-oriented offshoot that runs concurrently. He performs on stage casually from his chair. Besides the humorously performed songs, it is especially his loop station performances that are a lot of fun.

So take your sticky fingers off the sofa, take off your non-slip socks, and go to the bathroom one more time: Bummelkasten is in town!