ALOE BLACC Christmas Funk
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• With “Wake Me Up”—the mega-hit Aloe Blacc sang and co- wrote for Swedish DJ Avicii and saw climb to #1 in over 100 countries across the globe— the Grammy nominated singer/ songwriter proved he has an irresistible power to capture the complexities of human emotion • His first holiday album will be released on his own Aloe Blacc Recordings Inc. on limited edition red/white split color vinyl • Music video: “I Got Your Christmas Right Here”
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Aloe Blacc Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc will release his first TITLE: Christmas Funk holiday album, Christmas Funk featuring eight original songs written CATALOG: L-ALOE001 by Blacc, and two classic cover songs by Wham! and Mariah Carey. LABEL: Aloe Blacc Recording Inc. “Christmas Funk is the type of holiday album I have been waiting to hear GENRE: Funk/Soul BARCODE: 659123116213 for a long time,” says Aloe. “These new song concepts and stories are my FORMAT: LP Red/White Split Color Vinyl interpretation of the time I spend with family and friends. I’ve been a fan of HOME MARKET: Los Angeles Motown and soulful Christmas songs since I was a young child. As much RELEASE: 12/21/2018 as I love Sinatra and Nat King Cole, I feel like the holiday spirit needed COST: $12.50 a funky revival. The eight new original songs are a perfect complement LIST PRICE: $19.98 / CR to the extra funky versions of two undeniable holiday classics, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You,’ and ‘Last Christmas.’ I chose to cover these songs
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1. Tell Your Mama 2. I Got Your Christmas Right Here 3. All I Want For Christmas 4. I Can’t Wait For Christmas 5. The Mrs. Saved Christmas 6. Last Christmas 7. All I Have Is Love 8. At Christmas 9. Funky Ass Christmas 10. Love Come Home
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• The tenth installment in Fat Beats’ instrumental series • Curated collection of unreleased instrumentals • Currently touring Europe with Apollo Brown • Member of Betty Ford Boys with Dexter and Brenk Sinatra
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Suff Daddy When I finished school in 1999 I didn’t really know what to do with my TITLE: Baker’s Dozen: Suff Daddy life. I had just bought my first computer and was killing time by playing CATALOG: L-BDZ010 games and smoking weed. One day an old friend came by and brought LABEL: Fat Beats Records a cracked version of Sonic Foundry Acid. He said: ‘You can make music GENRE: Hip-Hop/Instrumental BARCODE: 659123114714 with this software!’ FORMAT: LP + Bonus Flexi Disc HOME MARKET: Berlin Of course back then I didn’t realize it, but this was a life changing moment RELEASE: 12/21/2018 for me. I used this music program for many many years - 17 years to be COST: $12.50 exact. It became the tool that enabled me to express myself creatively LIST PRICE: $19.98 / CR and to do what I love the most: making beats. CASE QTY: 50
Both my setup and my creative process have changed a bit since then, TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) but basically it’s the same procedure as back in the day. It usually starts 1. The Intro with a few chords, a nice rhythmic loop and some drum bits. The rest 2. Bamel Clues happens by itself. 3. Suff Punk 4. Westwing I remember visiting the Fat Beats store in New York City in 2004. I was 5. Super Mario Skit a massive fan. To finally enter the holy halls was a huge deal for me. 6. Vladimir Plugin I was was soaking up the atmosphere dreaming about a future as a 7. Pre Game Chillout producer. Who would have thought that I would ever put out a record with 8. BFB Vacuum Beat these guys! I feel honored to be part of the Bakers Dozen series and its 9. Dolemite Leftover outstanding list of producers. 10. Pumpin Like Reeboks 11. Probably Broccoli Skit -SUFF DADDY 12. Chicken Pox 13. Worried Bout My Bentley
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• Billboard: Ghostface Killah Refuses to Give Up His Throne in New ‘Buckingham Palace’ Video: Premiere • Rolling Stone: Review: Ghostface Killah Sticks to Basics on ‘The Lost Tapes’ • Includes features from Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, E-40, Snoop Dogg, Big Daddy Kane, Cappadonna, Tricky and more
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Ghostface Killah Ghostface Killah has released his 13th studio album called The Lost TITLE: The Lost Tapes Tapes via Daupe! The 13-track LP includes guest spots from 25 artists CATALOG: L-DMSP38 / CD-DMSP38 including fellow Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, E-40, Snoop Dogg, LABEL: Daupe! Big Daddy Kane, Cappadonna, and Tricky. GENRE: Hip-Hop BARCODE: 680599101076 / 680599101083 FORMAT: LP / CD HOME MARKET: New York City RELEASE: 12/21/2018 COST: $24.00 / $13.99 LIST PRICE: $34.98 / RF / $21.99 / AV
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1. Introduction 2. Buckingham Palace ft 38 Special , Benny & Kxng Crooked 3. Majestic Accolades Ft Planet Asia & Hus Kingpin 4. Cold Crush Ft LA The Darkman Rass Kass,Chris Rivers & Harley 5. Put The Ghostface On It 6. Saigon Velour ft Snoop Dogg & E-40 7. Constant Struggle ft Killah Priest & Bishop Lamont 8. Done It Again ft Stylistic Jones, cappadonna & Big Daddy Kane 9. Reflections Of C.R.E.A.M 10. Watch Em Holla ft Raekwon, Masta Killah & Nappadonna 11. I Think I Saw A Ghost ft Luke Holland, Reignwolf, Vic Spencer & Sheek Louch 12. Outroduction 13. Saigon Velour REMIX ft Snoop Dogg , E 40 & Tricky
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• Music Video: “The Horse’s Mouth” • Includes features from Busta Rhymes, Black Thought & Knowledge The Pirate and production from Q-Tip, The Alchemist, Roc Marciano & more • Pitchfork review
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Roc Marciano Sixth full length studio album from legendary emcee/producer Roc TITLE: Behold A Dark Horse Marciano featuring Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Knowledge CATALOG: L-FB5190 The Pirate, and more. LABEL: Marci Enterprises GENRE: Hip-Hop/Rap BARCODE: 659123519014 FORMAT: 2XLP HOME MARKET: New York/New Jersey RELEASE: 12/21/2018 COST: $19.49 LIST PRICE: $29.98 / AL
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1. The Horse’s Mouth 2. Congo 3. 1000 Deaths 4. Diamond Cutters feat. Black Thought 5. Amethyst 6. Sampson & Delilah 7. No Love feat. Knowledge The Pirate 8. Trojan Horse feat. Busta Rhymes 9. Fabio 10. Secrets 11. Whoolers 12. Consigliere
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• Featuring members of The Sugarman 3, Charles Bradley & The Extraordinaires, & The Roots
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Scone Cash Players Hark, a message from the Scone Cash Players. This is a Christmas for TITLE: Scone Cold Christmas the people. The Yuletide cheer is low this holiday season. There may be CATALOG: F-FTR103 no one to kiss under the mistletoe, but you are gonna be alright. These LABEL: Flamingo Time / Mango Hill songs will rest the ghost of Christmas past, present and possibly even GENRE: Soul/Funk BARCODE: 680599101175 future. FORMAT: 7” Random Color Vinyl HOME MARKET: Brooklyn, New York / Miami, Florida RELEASE: 12/21/2018 COST: $6.38 LIST PRICE: $9.98 / CG
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Side A. My First Divorced Christmas (Santa Claus Got A Divorce)
Side B. They Say It’s Christmas Time (Christmas Time In Brooklyn)
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DESCRIPTION A 90s Rap Tape from Hotthobo ... classics and obscurities featuring the best from both coasts. The tape he should have made in the 90s made now, when the 90s are relevant again.
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Side A. Mix ARTIST: Hotthobo TITLE: Big Name Side B. CATALOG: C-HOBO010 Mix LABEL: Hobo Camp GENRE: Hip-Hop/R&B BARCODE: N/A HOBO010 FORMAT: Cassette HOME MARKET: Los Angeles RELEASE: 12/21/2018 COST: $6.97 LIST PRICE: $10.98 / AJ
PROUDLY DISTRIBUTED BY FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION | 8930 ETON AVE. CANOGA PARK, CA 91304 | DISTRIBUTION.FATBEATS.COM OTIS JUNIOR & DR. DUNDIFF Cool NO EXPORT TO EUROPE KEY SELLING POINTS
• Cool is the second album by Otis Junior and Dr.Dundiff on Jakarta Records • The album’s artwork was done by Simone Cihlar who is also the driving creative force behind Anderson .Paak’s and Tom Misch’s visuals • Music Video: “Need To Know”
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Otis Junior & Dr. Dundiff Otis and Dundiff both are originally from Louisville, Kentucky. They only TITLE: Cool met shortly before they released their first work together. Sometimes CATALOG: L-JAKARTA138 musicians take their time to find a formula, to carve out a way in which LABEL: Jakarta Records they create. Not those two. It was an instant creative connection, a artistic GENRE: R&B/Soul BARCODE: 673790034168 bond from the get go which makes them produce classic song after FORMAT: LP classic song. Otis once summarized their working approach like this: “As HOME MARKET: Louisville, Kentucky with our previous works, the concepts for the songs and album were born RELEASE: 12/21/2018 from Dundiff presenting me with broad ideas (instrumentals and titles) COST: $13.75 and allowing me to define them through my own perspective (with lyrics LIST PRICE: $21.98 / CX and melodies).”
TRACKLISTING Dundiff’s organic yet hard hitting productions compliment Otis Junior soulful timbre perfectly. Around 60% of the sounds on the album are 1. Cool played live while 40% are based on samples which shows how the music 2. Need to Know is created within two different musical birthplaces. the result is too Hip 3. Wet Hop to be Soul and vice versa but it is sitting very well in between these 4. Waiting on You chairs. 5. In the Dark 6. Poems When Otis Junior and Dr.Dundiff approach an album production they 7. Come Closer always try to establish an ongoing theme for the album. Their latest 8. Blue work deals with the concept of Cool and the contemplations about 9. Through Me what it means to “be cool” to others versus actually feeling cool, calm, 10. 5pm and comfortable in life. Thereafter, the album follows a subtle growth 11. Black towards the latter. Beginning with an overt contemplation on what it means to be cool, the first half of the album speaks from that insecure perspective. Becoming more sure as the album develops, it ends not with a contemplation on being cool, but whether or not people are perceived accurately at all.
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• Gentle jazz explorations with top players--a melodic jazz record with a scenic vibe • His credits are extensive, from Natalie Merchant to Gil Scott Heron, from Chris Potter to Nate Smith
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Fima Ephron Born in London, England, Fima Ephron moved to New York at age three. TITLE: Songs From The Tree After starting playing bass at age thirteen, Fima attended New York City’s CATALOG: CD-RAD105 famed music and art high school and was playing professionally by age LABEL: Modern Icon/Ropeadope fourteen. He has gone on to perform and record with a cross section GENRE: Jazz BARCODE: 824833022783 of some of the greatest talent in the music industry: Walter Becker, FORMAT: CD - 4 Panel Digipak David Torn, Gil Scott Heron, Natalie Merchant, Meshell N’Degeocello, HOME MARKET: New York City Screaming Headless Torsos, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Ben Monder, Chris RELEASE: 12/21/2018 Potter, Wayne Krantz, Don Byron, David Sancious, Adina Menzel, COST: $9.15 Alana Davis, Morley, Steve Bernstein And Millennial Territory Orchestra, LIST PRICE: $13.98 / AM Groove Collective, Alex Sipiagin, Hasidic New Wave, David Fiuczynski/ John Medeski’s ‘Lunar Crush’, Yeoffi, Jeb Loi Nichols, Franklyn Kiermyer, Jaki Byard and the Apollo Stompers, Rise Robots Rise, John Zorn, Brad TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) Shepik and the commuters, Frank London, Nate Smith and Kinfolk, 1. Arboreal Adam Rogers Dice, to name a few. 2. Beaulieu 3. Bamboo Fima has two acclaimed releases of his own: Soulmachine on the Tzadik 4. Fortune label and his self released Quiet City. He also co-led the acclaimed 5. Gamma group “Lost Tribe” and currently leads his own quartet which will release 6. Ground Of Being its debut recording in 2018. He continues to reside in New York City. 7. Know Self 8. Plan Nine 9. Signs 10. Times Fly
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• ARIA nominated (Australia’s version of Grammy’s essentially) debut album ‘Do Anything, Go Anywhere’, 2011 • Recorded by a 17 piece ensemble, led by fierce vocals and a howling horn section, it’s a fitting 21st-century response to the world- shaking music of 1970s Nigeria • Artwork by Lemi Ghariokwu, the legendary collage artist and illustrator responsible for all of Fela Kuti’s most famous album covers of the 1970s • The POAO’s first album in 8 years
DESCRIPTION ARTIST: The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra After a long wait, Melbourne’s Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (The TITLE: Naming & Blaming POAO) is set to release their second album, Naming & Blaming, a CATALOG: L-HS032 pulsing, percussive journey into classic afrobeat. Recorded by a 17 piece LABEL: Hope Street ensemble, led by fierce vocals and a howling horn section, it’s a fitting GENRE: Afrobeat BARCODE: 659123112413 21st-century response to the world-shaking music of 1970s Nigeria. FORMAT: LP The result is true to the afrobeat blueprint of hypnotic, extended songs, HOME MARKET: Melbourne improvisation and political comment but adds to the formula a host of RELEASE: 12/21/2018 pan-African influences and hip-hop elements that reflect the deep COST: $14.45 ranging roots of the band. LIST PRICE: $22.98 /CS
As the title suggests, and in true afrobeat tradition, Naming & Blaming pulls no punches. It is an outspokenly political record, a cauldron of strong TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) opinions where indignation and optimism coexist. Led by the vocals of MC 1. No Passport One Sixth and singer Lamine Sonko, the critique of colonialism is applied 2. Fight So Hard to both the African and Australian experience, the battles of many cultures 3. Medicine informing the group’s ethos as does the importance of community and 4. Naming & Blaming staying true to one’s convictions. Uplifting visions of a brighter possible 5. The System future as laid out in “No Passport,” the album’s rambunctious opening song, are balanced with honest reflections on injustice like guest Robbie Thorpe’s take on Australia’s chequered history in the title track.
For the Naming & Blaming cover, the band was honoured to have the opportunity to work with one of the originators of the Afrobeat movement Lemi Ghariokwu, the legendary collage artist and illustrator responsible for all of Fela’s most famous album covers of the 1970s. This relationship is what the POAO is all about, paying respects to the culture and keeping it alive and relevant in the 21st century. Over the last decade, The POAO have established themselves as a firm festival favourites with their contemporary approach to Afrobeat.
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