Street BeatDrumming Below Sea Level
What is the New Orleans drum sound? Some of the world's most influential drummers have spent a hundred years answering it.
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Produced by Mid City Sound & Fire on the Bayou · Hosted by Doug Belote
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“In the Cracks”
New Orleans has a drum sound unlike anywhere else on earth. It lives in the second line, in the brass band, in the improvised groove that runs through everything from jazz to bounce to hip-hop. But what is it, exactly? Where does it come from?
Street Beat: Drumming Below Sea Level brings together NOLA's most influential drummers to answer that question — in their own words, in the city that made them.
Produced by Mid City Sound Studios and Fire on the Bayou. Hosted by Doug Belote, this 54-minute documentary is an intimate portrait of the rhythms that shaped the world.
Film Credits
Produced by
Mid City Sound Studios
Produced by
Fire on the Bayou
Produced by
Doreja Productions
Hosted by
Doug Belote, collaborator at Mid City Sound
Runtime
54 minutes
Released
2025
A film about the sound New Orleans gave the world
Street Beat is a Mid City Sound Studios production
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