Finally, some DJ’s remember how great old Mantronik beats are and proceed to cut the living Christ outta those shits. Sadly they then move onto some non-Mantronik music but it’s still good times if you like a good beat juggle. This looks like it was worth the price of entry to the Fat Beats 25th…
My thoughts on the new Ka album, The Night’s Gambit, and why he’s doing the independent rap thing the right way. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: The Importance of Ka
Welcome new contributor Max Angeles to the team. I don’t know much about her other than the fact that she fux with ‘Anchorman’, Tragedy records and almost died of alcohol poisoning last week. Sounds like a born Unkut Dot Com trooper… Let me just say a few things about working at the Fat Beats store…
Dallas Penn contributes this drop in the first of a series of guest spots while his site is on hiatus: Fat Beats was like your older uncle who you didn’t visit as often so that when you got the news of his death it was from the other folks who still brought him his wine…
Yesterday saw the announcement that the brick and mortar stores of Fat Beats would be closing their doors in New York and LA after sixteen years: Fat Beats will celebrate the legacies of the stores, which are scheduled to close in early September (New York: September 4th, Los Angeles: September 18th) by throwing a series…