Beardyman impresses with his leftfield massive, dense sounds

In search of something slightly more leftfield, it's inside again for Beardyman's set in the murky underworld of the Slam Tent – T in the Park's dance arena.

Arriving to declare in a distorted, mechanical voice "What the fuck you saying Scotland?" to maintain every bit of the pounding momentum built up by previous act, Claude von Stroke.

Using an array of loop pedals and vocal effects, the one-man beatboxing dance orchestra churns out huge, driving basslines, drums, guitars and vocals from just his voicebox, creating a huge cacophony that has a willing crowd moving as if they were in front of a superstar DJ.

He effortlessly melds drum n bass, house, reggae and indie anthems, all the time keeping up an incessant and constantly changing beat, throwing in a cheeky run through 'Popcorn', contorting his voice into an air-raid siren and dancing-up Finley Quaye's 'Sunday Shining'.

A bone-shaking, rumbling '7 Nation Army' drops into an epic, fist-pumping run through of New Order's 'Blue Monday' and a hugely well-received take on The Bucketheads' house classic 'The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)'.

With a seething mass of dancing bodies fully having it and the massive, dense sounds filling the tent, it's hard to accept that it's just one man, his voice and a bag of electronic tricks on stage. Brilliant.

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