INSIGHT & DAMU THE FUDGEMUNK (Y SOCIETY) Travel At Your Own Pace (10 Year Deluxe Edition Double Album) KEY SELLING POINTS • 10 Year Anniversary of Travel At Your Own Pace • Deluxe Re-Issue on 2xTape and 2xCD includes original remastered album, unreleased bonus tracks, full instrumental album and more • Damu The Fudgemunk’s highly sought after production debut • Copies of the original 2007 LP pressing of this album are hard/impossible to come by. Sealed copies have been known to fetch over $200+ on discogs by resellers • View product photos here DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Insight & Damu The Fudgemunk (Y Society) In 2006 Insight the Truncator (Boston) and Damu the Fudgemunk TITLE: Travel At Your Own Pace: Vocal & Instrumental (Washington DC), started recording their debut album under the moniker Versions (10 Year Deluxe Edition Double Album) Y Society. Entitled, Travel at Your Own Pace (TAYOP) the album was first CATALOG: CD-RDF125 / C-RDF125 released in October 2007. In hindsight, the year would be one of the LABEL: Redefinition Records last years where albums were designed for long term digestion, and a GENRE: Hip-Hop/Rap handful of releases from the era survived as undisputed classics to the BARCODE: 125201812532 / N/A RDF125 masses. Today, conceptual albums are almost archaic in a genre built FORMAT: 2XCD / 2XCASSETTE upon storytelling and themes. HOME MARKET: Boston / Washington DC RELEASE: 12/01/2017 With TAYOP, Insight and Damu put the message in the music. The album LIST PRICE: $13.98 / AM / $19.98 / AT title served the two as a roadmap to completion of its 13 songs and in return, the finished product serves as a navigation aid to the listener maneuvering through life within themselves and absorbing the outside TRACKLISTING world. From adventures of fiscal responsibility and imaginative tales of 1. This Is An Introduction 1 7. Match My Pattern time travel to deconstructing one’s obstructions and beyond, Insight’s 2. Never Off (On & On) (Previously Unreleased) rhymes confidently steer the listener on whatever path they have chosen 3. Hole In Your Pocket 18. This Is An Introduction for themselves. The goal of the album is to empower. From start to finish, 4. This Advice Instrumental the array of uplifting lyrics is somewhat like modern day proverbs, but 5. Good Communication 19. Never Off Instrumental not proverbial. 6. Scientist 20. Hole In Your Pocket 7. Dizzy Instrumental Musically, Damu the Fudgemunk pulls from a deep body of influences, 8. How Many Of Us? 2 1. This Advice Instrumental that give it its unique identity and charm while paying homage to the 9. Puzzles 22. Scientist Instrumental foundations of their predecessors. The Legendary Marley Marl cosigned 10. What’s Next? 23. How Many Of Us the album as a “refreshing” effort of the times. For a project of such 11. In Command Instrumental character, the general reception does not reflect the magnitude of 12. Setting The Example 24. Puzzles Instrumental acclaim by it’s cult following. Receiving mixed reviews in a foggy time 13. At My Own Pace 25. Whats Next Instrumental in the industry, Travel at Your Own Pace still managed to sell out of it’s 14. Paranoid Remix 26. In Command Instrumental original production. However, it has been long out of print for a decade. (Previously only available 2 7. At My Own Pace In response, original vinyl pressings have fetched several hundreds of in Japan - First time on Instrumental dollars per copy in the used online markets of Discogs and eBay. The Vinyl) 28. Paranoid Instrumental progressing careers of both Insight and Damu in addition to their label, 15. Never Off (On & On) - 29. Match My Pattern Redefinition Records (also celebrating 10 years) prove that in a murky Insight Remix (Previously Instrumental 2007, they all knew where they were traveling and how to arrive. Even only available on 12”) with their growth, a Travel at Your Own Pace repress has remained an 16. What’s Next? Left Field inevitable inquiry and recurring expectation to loyal supporters. The Remix 1 (Official Release) answer is here and the wait is finally over. PROUDLY DISTRIBUTED BY FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION | 8920 ETON AVE. CANOGA PARK, CA 91304 | DISTRIBUTION.FATBEATS.COM KOSS (DJ KOSS) Born To Live KEY SELLING POINTS • Limited edition vinyl • Features from Torae, Masta Ace, Large Pro, Craig G, Marley Marl, Blaq Poet, J-Live, Keith Murray, Ruste Juxx • Featured production/remixes by Large Professor & K-Def DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Koss (DJ Koss) “I just use turntables, vinyl and a MPC, that’s it. I always come back to TITLE: Born To Live the basics with production because it forces me to be creative. Giving a CATALOG: L-SOSR054 sense to a melody or a rhythm is a powerful thing and it doesn’t happen LABEL: Slice Of Spice every day.” Belgium based producer, Koss can be considered a hip-hop GENRE: Hip-Hop BARCODE: 852678019255 purist. FORMAT: LP HOME MARKET: Belgium His previously released body of work has emulated late 80’s / early 90’s RELEASE: 12/01/2017 heaters producing EP’s for Craig G (Juice Crew), AG (Showbiz & AG) and LIST PRICE: $21.98 / CX El Da Sensei (Artifacts). Now Below System Records (Masta Ace, Phat Kat, Chuuwee & Trizz) will be releasing his official full-length production TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) album entitled “Born To Live”. 1. Born To Live Part 1 2. And You Don’t Stop (ft. Torae) Whereas the previous EPs was one MC per release, the forthcoming 3. Longevity (ft. Masta Ace) album boasts an all-star line-up of spitters including Torae, Large 4. H.E.R. (ft. Large Professor & Craig G) Professor, Masta Ace, Keith Murray, Blaq Poet, Ruste Juxx, J-Live and 5. A Word From Marley Marl (ft. Marley Marl) Craig G. When asked why he decided to have different features on each 6. The Rawness (ft. Blaq Poet) track Koss related “I wanted this album to express life and my passion 7. Through The Years (ft. Craig G & Blaq Poet) for the Hip-Hop culture. My aim was to choose MCs that no matter what 8. Straight Up Pretenders (ft. J-Live) is in style at the moment always stay consistent and remember where 9. This Is Now (ft. Keith Murray) they came from.” 10. How I Get Down (ft. Ruste Juxx) 11. Born To Live Part 2 The true school vibe of the album even extends to the remixers that 12. Longevity Remix (ft. Masta Ace) - Produced by K-Def Koss selected. “Born To Live” features track remixes courtesy of K-Def 13. This Is Now Remix (ft. Keith Murray) - Produced by Large (Ghostface Killah, Tragedy Khadafi), Large Professor (Main Source, Nas) Professor and close friends 12 Finger Dan and B-Base. PROUDLY DISTRIBUTED BY FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION | 8920 ETON AVE. CANOGA PARK, CA 91304 | DISTRIBUTION.FATBEATS.COM BROWNOUT You Don’t Have To Fall b/w Super Bright KEY SELLING POINTS • “Brownout definitely has it going on. The amalgamation of funk, jazz funk and psychedelic influences provides a palpable energy.”” - Huffington Post • Brownout has released music on Kept and Ubiquity Records and has a forthcoming album with Fat Beats Records set for a 2018 release DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Brownout An 8-piece outfit formed ten years ago by members of Grammy Award- TITLE: You Don’t Have To Fall b/w Super Bright winning Latin revival orchestra Grupo Fantasma, Brownout has evolved CATALOG: F-FB7010 into a musical force all its own. After garnering their third Austin Music LABEL: Fat Beats Records Award last year, the band has continued to produce music that is GENRE: Funk BARCODE: 659123701013 unflinchingly progressive, while evoking the classic influences of artists FORMAT: 7” Gold Vinyl such asWAR, Cymande and Funkadelic. They’ve performed at events HOME MARKET: Austin, Texas including Bonnaroo, High Sierra Music Festival, Pickathon, FFFFest, RELEASE: 12/01/2017 Bear Creek Music Festival, Utopia Festival and Pachanga Fest, while LIST PRICE: $7.98 / CE regularly touring the U.S. Brownout’s also served as a highly in-demand backing band for artists including Prince, Daniel Johnston, GZA and TRACKLISTING (Click Tracks In Blue To Preview Audio) Bernie Worrell. A. You Don’t Have To Fall This 45 features two cuts from their latest release, Over The Covers, on limited edition gold vinyl. B. Super Bright PROUDLY DISTRIBUTED BY FAT BEATS DISTRIBUTION | 8920 ETON AVE. CANOGA PARK, CA 91304 | DISTRIBUTION.FATBEATS.COM SUGARAY RAYFORD The World That We Live In NO EXPORT TO EUROPE KEY SELLING POINTS • Produced and recorded by Luca Sapio at his custom Vintage Studio using some of Italy’s finest musicians • His switch to contemporary music began about 15 years ago in the San Diego area, where he sang lead vocals with a R&B/ funk group called Urban Gypsys. With this band, he had the privilege of sharing the stage with such notable artists as the Average White Band, actor-musician Dennis Quaid, Joe Louis Walker, Kal David, Super Diamond & Venice, to name a few • Nominated this year for the BB King Entertainer award at the 38th Blues Music Awards and nominated for Contemporary Blues Male Artist DESCRIPTION ARTIST: Sugaray Rayford Another Transistor Sound Release via Italian Soul/Funk label Blind Faith TITLE: The World That We Live In Records out of Italy. Sugaray is one of rhythm & blues music’s true hidden CATALOG: L-TSR005 / CD-TSR005 gems and he proves it on every track of this dynamite 10 song LP. Italian LABEL: Transistor Sound soul ambassador Luca Sapio made it his mission to bring Sugaray’s voice GENRE: Soul/R&B BARCODE: 8056099000720 / 8056099000713 and music to the forefront, so he tracked him down to record his latest FORMAT: LP / CD album, ‘The World That We Live In.’ It was recorded in Luca’s analogue HOME MARKET: Rome, Italy studio in Italy, with tons of vintage gear, microphones and a killer house RELEASE: 12/01/2017 band.