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.

THE NONSEMBLE is a Venice, CA based creative collective dedicated to the new, the now and the next generations in Jazz/Not-Jazz and related sounds from all the world 'round! 
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We look for Jazz love in all the corners of the world that are now new homes to and for this incredible and beautiful artform!
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Look for us at gigs, parties and festivals across the country and around the globe - or come on out to the [  ]AZZ-IS VENICE JAZZ/NOT-JAZZ FESTIVAL or any of the many events we produce, present and promote here at home and any/everywhere we get a chance to listen and dance!

Grupa została powołana do życia przez Czarka Morawskiego, absolwenta Akademii Muzycznej w Gdańsku, pianistę, klawiszowca i kompozytora, znanego z działań w rozmaitych formacjach muzycznych. Wiele z nich otrzymało prestiżowe nagrody artystyczne np. -Groovkojad (Fryderyk 2001+Wyróżnienie Grammy oraz MTV), -Lipali ( Fryderyk 2001) i wiele innych. Czarek Morawski wspomagał również bardzo zróżnicowane pod względem stylistycznym formacje np. IMTM ( Latino Afro Jazz Funk), Apteka ( alternative rock), Behemoth (Black Metal).

W oparciu o te doświadczenia powstał najnowszy wyjątkowy autorski projekt- Ortalion. Grupa powstała w 2011r. Swoją nazwą i koncepcją muzyczną nawiązuje do „ tranzystorowego” i analogowego brzmienia lat 60-tych i 70-tych, Ortalionu nie da się jednoznacznie zaszufladkować.Fakt ten zachęca grupę do ciągłych
poszukiwań i eksperymentowania z brzmieniem.
W 2015 roku Ortalion zdobył złoty laur - Skrzydlate Wiosło na festiwalu muzycznym w Piszu. W 2016 roku nakładem wydawnictwa Audio-cave ukazał się jego debiutancki album w formie CD oraz w wersji winylowej.
Obecnie poza promocją materiału z pierwszego albumu zespół kończy przygotowania związane z prezentacją utoworów z nowego wydawnictwa :
 "O 2" (premiera wszystkich nośników odbyła się 16/11/2017).
Muzyka Ortalionu była prezentowana przez : Radio Gdańsk,Radio Malbork,OFF Radio Kraków, Radio Sopocki,Radiową Dwójkę i Trójkę oraz RMF Classic.

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