A Beatroot History with Kavet the Catalyst

I had the honor of spending some time with Kavet the Catalyst to talk about his past as a beatmaker and what inspired him to create Hawaii’s first beat battle, Beatroot.

Kavet and I go way back, we listened to the same underground hip hop tapes back in the late 90s/early 2000s and I had sent him my first beat album, Pendulum while he was the host of the legendary Lightsleepers show on KTUH. When I moved out to the 808 state, he was the first cat I contacted, and the rest is history.

Reverse Depatterning.

Another visual design inspired by the music of Vezzen and Abomination Oner. Support dope beats and the artists that make them.

PSA.

I present to you my latest visual creation inspired by music created by fellow comrade and beat maestro, Abomination Oner out of Kaneohe.

Graffiti Technica.

Being fascinated with technology and graffiti at a young age, I would never have dreamed that one day someone would fuse the two and create what you see above. I just discovered Graffiti Technica while browsing Vimeo and I couldn’t help but share the amazing work this guy is doing. Talk about taking graffiti to the next dimension, better yet, another galaxy.

“Before the dawn of rhyme I was a savage.”

There’s this “underground” mentality that’s tough to shed if you grew up listening to independent hip hop in the late 90s and early 2000s. Some of the core ideas behind it were creative freedom, self-reliance, anti-establishment, and non-conformity (though your mileage may vary). Savages, the latest album from Matt Gamin & Abomination Oner exemplify the underground sound for modern times with an album that stays true to those roots and expands on the foundation built by the artists before us. » Continue reading…