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April 10, 2019 12:45 PM

THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers) are "a student-run organization at Harvard College that likes to get together on Monday evenings and hit things." Those things include buckets and boomwhackers. The logical end-point of this perpetual percussive play is a cover of Darude's 1999 trance hit Sandstorm, played on boomwhackers.
posted by duffell (13 comments total)

'purple sticks' on the right knows whats up! 🕶️
posted by Fizz at 12:52 PM on April 10, 2019 [5 favorites]

Another classic in the genre.
posted by sacrifix at 12:53 PM on April 10, 2019 [6 favorites]

Content warning for those who have ever had a classroom next door to an elementary school music classroom.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:56 PM on April 10, 2019 [3 favorites]

I'm feelin' it
posted by twidget at 1:04 PM on April 10, 2019

This feels very appropriate because Sandstorm will never-not make me think of dorm rooms (specifically the one occupied by my Bulgarian neighbor).
posted by Exceptional_Hubris at 1:10 PM on April 10, 2019 [2 favorites]

Why can't things like this exist outside of colleges. Why is life not this silly and fun all the time. I loved this.
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:30 PM on April 10, 2019 [8 favorites]

I'm amazed at how long-lived this song is as a meme. Like, we already thought it was funny in... 2001? 2002? This is like if they were still rickrolling people in 2030 or something.
posted by nebulawindphone at 2:15 PM on April 10, 2019 [5 favorites]

I totally thought the purple sticks guy was going to have something hidden under the jacket that would do something instead of them just all making their mouths say "psssssssssssss" at the end.
posted by aubilenon at 4:10 PM on April 10, 2019

Here is another boomwhacker piece, which is interesting visually, not just musically.
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 4:28 PM on April 10, 2019 [8 favorites]

They should open up a Kickstarter to pay for some kind of rack or set of stands or something. Watching one of them bend over a million times seemed distractingly inefficient.
posted by penduluum at 4:50 AM on April 11, 2019

This is like if they were still rickrolling people in 2030 or something.

I've developed a personal brand to replace rickrolling. I don't know why, but it amuses me.
posted by thelonius at 6:23 AM on April 11, 2019

Reminds me of this busker in York who plays techno on a a kind of boomhacker keyboard:
Awesome Drumming Busker Nathan Robinson - York 2017
posted by jamespake at 6:37 AM on April 11, 2019 [2 favorites]

Please forgive my being exhausted and female in the world, but the only visible woman in the thing is doing all the work, just saying.
posted by lauranesson at 10:37 PM on April 12, 2019