Posted By Jericho on January 10, 2012

Come down to our Honolulu location on Thursday, January 12, 2012, at 5:00PM to hear some fresh beats from local producers.

Since 2005, the Lightsleepers, spearheaded by Kavet the catalyst, have been organizing The BeatRoot producer battles. This is the only known battle in Hawaii that pits producer vs. producer and beat vs. beat! Each battle consists of 8 producers that use production equipment ranging from AKAI MPCs to laptops. Each round is 1 – 2 minute beat each. The first round winners move on to the semi-final round, and the losers of the first round have to battle again to claim the wild card 4th spot. In the Semi-final round, the remaining producers battle to clinch a spot in the Finals! The finals consist of 2 rounds with each producer playing 2 – 2 minute beats. The winner of the battle claims a spot at the BeatRoot finals! BeatRoot brings a cool twist to the producers and beat makers in Hawaii and is a showcase for all of Hawaii’s producers!

If you would ever like to participate in the BeatRoot competition as a contestant or as an exhibitor, please email Kavet: lightsleepers@gmail.com

 

Check out this dope beat from our Sentric Clinic (A past finalist from BeatRoot)!

Category: Events
Tags: beatroot, lightsleepers, mpc, mpk

Posted By Jericho on August 18, 2011

BeatRoot is back once more! Come down to our Honolulu location on Thursday, August 25, 2011, at 5:00PM to hear some fresh beats from local producers.

Since 2005, the Lightsleepers, spearheaded by Kavet the catalyst, have been organizing The BeatRoot producer battles. This is the only known battle in Hawaii that pits producer vs. producer and beat vs. beat! Each battle consists of 8 producers that use production equipment ranging from AKAI MPCs to laptops. Each round is 1 – 2 minute beat each. The first round winners move on to the semi-final round, and the losers of the first round have to battle again to claim the wild card 4th spot. In the Semi-final round, the remaining producers battle to clinch a spot in the Finals! The finals consist of 2 rounds with each producer playing 2 – 2 minute beats. The winner of the battle claims a spot at the BeatRoot finals! BeatRoot brings a cool twist to the producers and beat makers in Hawaii and is a showcase for all of Hawaii’s producers!

If you would ever like to participate in the BeatRoot competition as a contestant or as an exhibitor, please email Kavet: lightsleepers@gmail.com

 

Check out this dope beat from our Sentric Clinic (A past finalist from BeatRoot)!

Category: Events
Tags: beatroot, lightsleepers, mpc, mpk

Posted By Chris on December 10, 2010

Category: Chris's Conundrum
Tags: beatroot

Posted By Chris on October 30, 2010

Category: Beatroot
Tags: 2010, beatroot, video

Posted By Chris on October 28, 2010

Category: Beatroot
Tags: 2010, beatroot, video

Posted By Chris on September 15, 2010

Here’s the video from the first round of Beatroot 2010.

Category: Beatroot, Videos
Tags: 2010, beatroot, video

Posted By Jericho on August 17, 2010

Since 2005, the Lightsleepers, spearheaded by Kavet the catalyst, have been organizing The BeatRoot producer battles. This is the only known battle in Hawaii that pits producer vs. producer and beat vs. beat! Each battle consists of 8 producers that use production equipment ranging from AKAI MPCs to laptops. Each round is 1 – 2 minute beat each. The first round winners move on to the semi-final round, and the losers of the first round have to battle again to claim the wild card 4th spot. In the Semi-final round, the remaining producers battle to clinch a spot in the Finals! The finals consist of 2 rounds with each producer playing 2 – 2 minute beats. The winner of the battle claims a spot at the BeatRoot finals! BeatRoot brings a cool twist to the producers and beat makers in Hawaii and is a showcase for all of Hawaii’s producers!

If you would ever like to participate in the BeatRoot competition as a contestant or as an exhibitor, please email Kavet: lightsleepers@gmail.com

Category: Events, News
Tags: beatroot, lightsleepers, live performance

Posted By Peter on April 7, 2010

The BeatRoot finals were awesome! We brought our system to Fresh Cafe, and Jericho did a great job running the sound. We kind of brought too much sound, but the end result was clarity. Rather than pushing a small system to 110%, we ran a very large system at 30%. I can’t remember the last hip hop show that I went to where you could actually understand what the mcs were saying. I got to see Jericho put the driverack system to use when he did the rta test mic on the room. He was able to dial in the sound for that room perfectly. The contestants were sick this year. There were a few exhibitor beat producers as well, and two of them had awesome live drumming and sequencing. Seeing Sentric perform again blew me away. The finals came down to Eat and Chris I. Ely won, but I really dug both of their beats. It was a great show. I’m in the bottom pix with Chris I (left) and Ely (right). Don’t miss it when we have the prelims in the store. You can really see what it takes to get to the top of the BeatRoot ladder !

Category: Pete's Perceptions
Tags: beatroot, mpc, performance