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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.

Atlanta trio SATMC is more than a band, it is a seance that conjures and exorcises all forms of possession when you are under their spell. It has been a happening that, for some years now, has stalked every punk house, dive bar, and witch hut hidden throughout this American geography like the knowing ghost of humanity waiting to see its reflection in you.

In light of their sophomore release, So Happy, It's Sad, Spirits and The Melchizedek Children (SATMC) earned the designation of being the "Southern Sigur Rós" from AV Club. Their Daytrotter performance from a juggernaut tour in support of So Happy gained enough traction to boot The National from the top spot of Daytrotter's most listened to sessions.

In their third full-length offering, Idiopathic and Essential, SATMC pick up where they left off without looking back. Recorded in one full take with minimal overdubs in a (reputedly haunted) tobacco factory in Winston Salem, NC, Idiopathic achieves something unique for any modern musical outfit -a seamless balancing act between unmitigated extremes of clairvoyant knowing, and sheer terror, whispered secrets and raging torrents of swan song epiphanies. This is not music for the faint of heart -it is a sonic baptism staged at the base of Niagara Falls.

Replete with a sense of dynamism and tonal sorcery that would make any die-hard Smashing Pumpkins fan forget all about their infinite sadness, bassist Nathan Sadler, drummer Bryan Fielden (Tortoise, Peter Buck), and ex-missionary turned punk rock prophet, Jason Elliott (vocals, guitar, arrangements) prove that there is still potential in the tried and true formula of power trios in amplified music. Through the help of endorsements from BLK TRI pickups, CnC Drums, and Black Arts Tone Works pedals, and a solid 2 years of touring this record as an uninterrupted suite, SATMC offer Idiopathic as a mirror for gazing far beyond the veil, and straight through the bullshit.

-Greg Bortnichak, Olympia, WA, 2016

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