"Her love is a rose, pale and dying. Dropping her petals in land unknown"

Since the birth of the label in 1997, FatCat has always had a solid engagement with material sent to us as demos. Where numerous labels will throw demos straight into the trash unopened, at FatCat we've always made an effort to listen and reply to every demo received. Numerous FatCat artists have been picked up having been discovered in this way (including Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, David Karsten Daniels, Welcome, Odonis Odonis, Get Back Guinozzi!, Silje Nes, Ensemble, Xinlisupreme, Songs Of Green Pheasant, Janek Schaefer - to name just a few), and it has always been really exciting to unexpectedly discover something great in this way. Just as when we started, this philosophy of keeping an ear to the ground and attempting to support good new creativity remains at the core of what we do.

With rapid changes in technology of recent years, the majority of demos are now sent to us electronically, but we are still happy to receive material through the post as CDs (please mark as 'demo submission' and mail FatCat Records, PO Box 3400, Brighton, BN1 4WG). Whilst we are still receiving a high quantity of demos, with our ever-busy release schedule and ongoing commitments to an expanding roster of signed artists, FatCat are now finding fewer opportunities to physically release material from new artists. As an antidote to this, back in 2004, we began using our website to showcase the best of the demos we were receiving. Alongside a DIY microsite built specifically to help people who wanted to release their own music, we hosted the our favourite demos online, with artwork and MP3s available for free download. In 2010 we began to use the more immediate freedom of SoundCloud as a platform - setting up a dropbox for people to submit tracks to and a player on the front of our site to showcase the best demo submissions. 

In February 2012, the new and improved FatCat demo site you are now using was launched, again using SoundCloud as the engine to drive the site. We have kept all of the the original demo artists on the new site - grouping them in collections archived by year. There is a lot of really great material stored away here, so please do spend some time looking around. 

The choices of who we have asked to join this archive are highly selective, and we make no apologies for this. These are tracks we consider to be really good quality material, tracks that we are happy to help promote and to have associated with FatCat. If you like what you hear here, then please do download the tracks and share this music with your friends.

London // Sound Engineer • Songwriter • Dreamer.


Sea Of Atoms are Jez Harris- Guitar/Keys/Programming/Drums/Vocals, Simon Dury- Keys/programming, Mishale Boettcher - Vocals/guitar/keys, Dave Bridges- Drums/Keys. Originating as an experimental long distance recording project, Sea of Atoms have evolved into a genre defying live band. The music has won plaudits from a number of internet stations for its sublime vocal melodies and intricate rhythms.

"How many bullets has it got to be, before that barrel runs out on me. Now I've got nowhere left to run”

North East Singer Songwriter 
Alt Garage Blues Rock & Roll


The Sons Of Bido Lito began to germinate in Sunderland in the glorious summer of 2011, rehearsing in a greenhouse whilst listening to a "Best Of The Yardbirds" CD, drinking bottles of Lowenbrau and watching old Oliver Reed interviews.

Their 3 minute gems packed with rumblin' jungle drums and twangin' surf guitars are said to have the ability to put unsuspecting listeners into an hypnotic trance, as if possessed by an Amazonian shaman.

This didn't deter legendary DJ Gary Crowley, who chose early demo "Movin' An A Groovin'" as his track of the week for both his Amazing Radio and Radio London shows.

Live dates soon followed, with the band sharing stages alongside Primal Scream, James Skelly and Jacco Gardener.

EA Sports hunted down a demo of "Gamma Ray!" to soundtrack FIFA 15's Goal Of The Month compilation, and a demo of "Coco Bongo" used in an online Heineken ad featuring Ruud Gullit (the band were left slightly miffed when they didn't get a tour of the brewery by Ruud in return).

Their debut single "Avalanche" was released on London label Dirty Water Records in late 2015, receiving rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic (voted Single Of The Year by Wort Wisconsin 89.9FM).

Recently signed to hip new label Pink Lane Records, their self-titled debut album (released November '17) will provide a long awaited look into the weird and wonderful world of The Sons Of Bido Lito. 

"This two-track encounter is pure addiction on 7” vinyl; a pair of songs which from different directions unite to create an aural mantra for swerving bodies and lusty thoughts." - RingMaster

"Employing a basic, thumping garage beat alongside twanging surf guitar parts, this is an edgy and dark, hook-laden sound which sets them apart from the more deliberately psychedelic sound of many of their peers." - Muso's Guide

"After reading the name of the band you don’t quite know what to expect - but if you jump that hurdle, you’re in for some good times. Serving up scuzzy beats which take you all the way back to the swinging 60's, this music is impossible to avoid" - Word For Music

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