• 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”

KEY SELLING POINTS

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

ALOE BLACCChristmas Funk

ARTIST: Aloe BlaccTITLE: Christmas Funk

CATALOG: L-ALOE001LABEL: Aloe Blacc Recording Inc.GENRE: Funk/Soul

BARCODE: 659123116213FORMAT: LP Red/White Split Color VinylHOME MARKET: Los AngelesRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $12.50LIST PRICE: $19.98 / CR

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Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc will release his first

holiday album, Christmas Funk featuring eight original songs written

by Blacc, and two classic cover songs by Wham! and Mariah Carey.

“Christmas Funk is the type of holiday album I have been waiting to hear

for a long time,” says Aloe. “These new song concepts and stories are my

interpretation of the time I spend with family and friends. I’ve been a fan of

Motown and soulful Christmas songs since I was a young child. As much

as I love Sinatra and Nat King Cole, I feel like the holiday spirit needed

a funky revival. The eight new original songs are a perfect complement

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

because the world deserves to feel the funk.”

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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

KEY SELLING POINTS

1. The Intro

2. Bamel Clues

3. Suff Punk

4. Westwing

5. Super Mario Skit

6. Vladimir Plugin

7. Pre Game Chillout

8. BFB Vacuum Beat

9. Dolemite Leftover

10. Pumpin Like Reeboks

11. Probably Broccoli Skit

12. Chicken Pox

13. Worried Bout My Bentley

SUFF DADDYBaker’s Dozen: Suff DaddyALLOTMENTS WILL BE NECESSARY

ARTIST: Suff DaddyTITLE: Baker’s Dozen: Suff Daddy

CATALOG: L-BDZ010LABEL: Fat Beats RecordsGENRE: Hip-Hop/Instrumental

BARCODE: 659123114714FORMAT: LP + Bonus Flexi Disc

HOME MARKET: BerlinRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $12.50LIST PRICE: $19.98 / CRCASE QTY: 50

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When I finished school in 1999 I didn’t really know what to do with my

life. I had just bought my first computer and was killing time by playing

games and smoking weed. One day an old friend came by and brought

a cracked version of Sonic Foundry Acid. He said: ‘You can make music

with this software!’

Of course back then I didn’t realize it, but this was a life changing moment

for me. I used this music program for many many years - 17 years to be

exact. It became the tool that enabled me to express myself creatively

and to do what I love the most: making beats.

Both my setup and my creative process have changed a bit since then,

but basically it’s the same procedure as back in the day. It usually starts

with a few chords, a nice rhythmic loop and some drum bits. The rest

happens by itself.

I remember visiting the Fat Beats store in New York City in 2004. I was

a massive fan. To finally enter the holy halls was a huge deal for me.

I was was soaking up the atmosphere dreaming about a future as a

producer. Who would have thought that I would ever put out a record with

these guys! I feel honored to be part of the Bakers Dozen series and its

outstanding list of producers.

-SUFF DADDY

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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

KEY SELLING POINTS

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

GHOSTFACE KILLAHThe Lost TapesALLOTMENTS ON CD WILL BE NECESSARY

ARTIST: Ghostface KillahTITLE: The Lost Tapes

CATALOG: L-DMSP38 / CD-DMSP38LABEL: Daupe!GENRE: Hip-Hop

BARCODE: 680599101076 / 680599101083FORMAT: LP / CD

HOME MARKET: New York CityRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $24.00 / $13.99LIST PRICE: $34.98 / RF / $21.99 / AV

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Ghostface Killah has released his 13th studio album called The Lost

Tapes via Daupe! The 13-track LP includes guest spots from 25 artists

including fellow Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, E-40, Snoop Dogg,

Big Daddy Kane, Cappadonna, and Tricky.

DESCRIPTION

• 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

KEY SELLING POINTS

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

ROC MARCIANOBehold A Dark HorseCD NOW SHIPPING

ARTIST: Roc MarcianoTITLE: Behold A Dark Horse

CATALOG: L-FB5190LABEL: Marci EnterprisesGENRE: Hip-Hop/Rap

BARCODE: 659123519014FORMAT: 2XLP

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Sixth full length studio album from legendary emcee/producer Roc

Marciano featuring Busta Rhymes, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Knowledge

The Pirate, and more.

DESCRIPTION

• Featuring members of The Sugarman 3, Charles Bradley &

The Extraordinaires, & The Roots

KEY SELLING POINTS

Side A.

My First Divorced Christmas (Santa Claus Got A Divorce)

Side B.

They Say It’s Christmas Time (Christmas Time In Brooklyn)

SCONE CASH PLAYERS Scone Cold Christmas

ARTIST: Scone Cash PlayersTITLE: Scone Cold Christmas

CATALOG: F-FTR103LABEL: Flamingo Time / Mango HillGENRE: Soul/Funk

BARCODE: 680599101175FORMAT: 7” Random Color Vinyl

HOME MARKET: Brooklyn, New York / Miami, FloridaRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $6.38LIST PRICE: $9.98 / CG

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Hark, a message from the Scone Cash Players. This is a Christmas for

the people. The Yuletide cheer is low this holiday season. There may be

no one to kiss under the mistletoe, but you are gonna be alright. These

songs will rest the ghost of Christmas past, present and possibly even

future.

DESCRIPTION

Side A.

Mix

Side B.

Mix

HOTTHOBOBig Name

ARTIST: HotthoboTITLE: Big Name

CATALOG: C-HOBO010LABEL: Hobo CampGENRE: Hip-Hop/R&B

BARCODE: N/A HOBO010FORMAT: Cassette

HOME MARKET: Los AngelesRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $6.97LIST PRICE: $10.98 / AJ

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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.

DESCRIPTION

• 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”

KEY SELLING POINTS

1. Cool

2. Need to Know

3. Wet

4. Waiting on You

5. In the Dark

6. Poems

7. Come Closer

8. Blue

9. Through Me

10. 5pm

11. Black

OTIS JUNIOR & DR. DUNDIFFCoolNO EXPORT TO EUROPE

ARTIST: Otis Junior & Dr. DundiffTITLE: Cool

CATALOG: L-JAKARTA138LABEL: Jakarta RecordsGENRE: R&B/Soul

BARCODE: 673790034168FORMAT: LP

HOME MARKET: Louisville, KentuckyRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $13.75LIST PRICE: $21.98 / CX

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Otis and Dundiff both are originally from Louisville, Kentucky. They only

met shortly before they released their first work together. Sometimes

musicians take their time to find a formula, to carve out a way in which

they create. Not those two. It was an instant creative connection, a artistic

bond from the get go which makes them produce classic song after

classic song. Otis once summarized their working approach like this: “As

with our previous works, the concepts for the songs and album were born

from Dundiff presenting me with broad ideas (instrumentals and titles)

and allowing me to define them through my own perspective (with lyrics

and melodies).”

Dundiff’s organic yet hard hitting productions compliment Otis Junior

soulful timbre perfectly. Around 60% of the sounds on the album are

played live while 40% are based on samples which shows how the music

is created within two different musical birthplaces. the result is too Hip

Hop to be Soul and vice versa but it is sitting very well in between these

chairs.

When Otis Junior and Dr.Dundiff approach an album production they

always try to establish an ongoing theme for the album. Their latest

work deals with the concept of Cool and the contemplations about

what it means to “be cool” to others versus actually feeling cool, calm,

and comfortable in life. Thereafter, the album follows a subtle growth

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.

DESCRIPTION

• 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

KEY SELLING POINTS

1. Arboreal

2. Beaulieu

3. Bamboo

4. Fortune

5. Gamma

6. Ground Of Being

7. Know Self

8. Plan Nine

9. Signs

10. Times Fly

FIMA EPHRONSongs From The Tree

ARTIST: Fima EphronTITLE: Songs From The Tree

CATALOG: CD-RAD105LABEL: Modern Icon/Ropeadope GENRE: Jazz

BARCODE: 824833022783FORMAT: CD - 4 Panel Digipak

HOME MARKET: New York CityRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $9.15LIST PRICE: $13.98 / AM

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Born in London, England, Fima Ephron moved to New York at age three.

After starting playing bass at age thirteen, Fima attended New York City’s

famed music and art high school and was playing professionally by age

fourteen. He has gone on to perform and record with a cross section

of some of the greatest talent in the music industry: Walter Becker,

David Torn, Gil Scott Heron, Natalie Merchant, Meshell N’Degeocello,

Screaming Headless Torsos, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Ben Monder, Chris

Potter, Wayne Krantz, Don Byron, David Sancious, Adina Menzel,

Alana Davis, Morley, Steve Bernstein And Millennial Territory Orchestra,

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

Shepik and the commuters, Frank London, Nate Smith and Kinfolk,

Adam Rogers Dice, to name a few.

Fima has two acclaimed releases of his own: Soulmachine on the Tzadik

label and his self released Quiet City. He also co-led the acclaimed

group “Lost Tribe” and currently leads his own quartet which will release

its debut recording in 2018. He continues to reside in New York City.

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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

KEY SELLING POINTS

1. No Passport

2. Fight So Hard

3. Medicine

4. Naming & Blaming

5. The System

THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRANaming & BlamingSOLD OUT - REPRESS COMING SOON

ARTIST: The Public Opinion Afro OrchestraTITLE: Naming & Blaming

CATALOG: L-HS032LABEL: Hope StreetGENRE: Afrobeat

BARCODE: 659123112413FORMAT: LP

HOME MARKET: MelbourneRELEASE: 12/21/2018COST: $14.45LIST PRICE: $22.98 /CS

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After a long wait, Melbourne’s Public Opinion Afro Orchestra (The

POAO) is set to release their second album, Naming & Blaming, a

pulsing, percussive journey into classic afrobeat. 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.

The result is true to the afrobeat blueprint of hypnotic, extended songs,

improvisation and political comment but adds to the formula a host of

pan-African influences and hip-hop elements that reflect the deep

ranging roots of the band.

As the title suggests, and in true afrobeat tradition, Naming & Blaming

pulls no punches. It is an outspokenly political record, a cauldron of strong

opinions where indignation and optimism coexist. Led by the vocals of MC

One Sixth and singer Lamine Sonko, the critique of colonialism is applied

to both the African and Australian experience, the battles of many cultures

informing the group’s ethos as does the importance of community and

staying true to one’s convictions. Uplifting visions of a brighter possible

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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