Catapult Music Festival is a free showcase of post-rap, alternative hip-hop and electronic music, produced by Cincinnati artists Abiyah and Juan Cosby.

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Abiyah and Grasshopper Juice Records' Nick Mitchell are pleased to announce the inaugural Catapult Music Festival, a free one-day post-rap and electronica-influenced music event to be held in Cincinnati’s eclectic Northside neighborhood on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Headlining the festival will be forward-thinking NYC musicians louis logic (Fake Four Inc.) and Tonedeff (QN5). They will be joined by similarly-situated Cincinnati progressive hip hop and electronic musicians. Catapult will be held concurrently from 9pm until 2am at Northside Tavern (front room and back room) and Chameleon on Hamilton Avenue in the Northside Entertainment District. The event will also feature a DJ happy hour at The Listing Loon from 5 to 8pm that day. 

We created Catapult out of a desire to move minds out of the “taking it back to that REAL hip hop” mode of thought into what hip hop is currently experiencing musically and sonically as it matures. Much like how post-punk artists were influenced by the sounds and statements of punk and forged new approaches in a post-punk era, so it is now occurring with what was considered underground hip hop. Beats are increasingly electronic in nature, with many artists replacing traditional DJs with SP-404 samplers, while many underground hip hop legends are veering off into new genre territory, i.e., EDM, indie rock/pop, etc. Catapult’s first headliners, NYC’S louis logic and Tonedeff, and will be joined by a slew of Cincinnati’s like-minded adventurous musicians, including Abiyah, Counterfeit Money Machine, Eugenius, Sudan Moon and B-Rad From The Breeze at Northside Tavern, while Chameleon will house several future electronic/soul/experimental musicians, many from Cincinnati’s electronic music and fine arts collective CINTHESIZER. 

Catapult Music Festival 2014 Mix

Track 1 from louis logic's Fake Four Inc. debut, his first self produced album, 7 years in the making.

A Day Late And A Dollar Short

An entirely a cappella track featuring Abiyah on lead/backing/music vox, Dana Hamblen (Fairmount Girls, Culture Queer, Darlene) on backing/music vox, and Marty Spitfly on beatbox.

Credits:

Released 17 July 2010 
Words: Abiyah 
Music: Abiyah/Dana Hamblen/Marty Spitfly 

Recorded and mixed by Jeremy Lesniak.

Abiyah - Ring Around the Rosie

Hot Shit

Miranda

Been in the works for a while, a collab with one of my favorite emcee's.

QN5 Records

download from bandcamp, pay what you want: http://tonedeff.bandcamp.com/

Miranda

Mr. Pointy