Barlic Gutter, the artist formerly known as Kineza, has been making mixes and garlic butter since 2011. Originally from Cyprus (a country not usually known for its garlic butter), you can count on her to entice your dancing rhythm. Often exploring the relationship between genres, she presents the finest of whatever the affair calls for - whether it’s for the two lone survivors of an afterparty or to the masses of a dance-floor. Expect wild drumming, soothing synths, and an open portal to your bleeping ethereal musical cosmos - because everybody likes a bit of garlic butter, even when it’s dairy free.

Having played in Cyprus, the UK, Lebanon, Greece and various radio stations across continents, she’s also shook the crowd several times at the notorious Cypriot festival Afro Banana Republic Festival as well as Fengaros 2022 and induced sweat at various warehouse parties and at venues in London such as the Pickle Factory, The Glove That Fits, and the queer sanctuary that is Dalston Superstore.

The quakes are coming, I’m sure, soon enough. I need to prepare for it. My face turns white. Two tiny black lines cover my sight, a bit as well on my lips, just to trace the kiss. Vlad turns in Pierrot. The march has begun.

Full Time-Part Time Dance Music Label, London.

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.

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Zeyn Mroueh is a Cypriot-born, Lebanese-Palestinian musician creating industrial soundscapes and experimental noise music.

    He composes primarily on the guitar using an array of pedals and samples to distort and manipulate traditional music into atonal sound experiences. With creative roots in psychedelic and stoner rock, he references melodic music within the framework of his pieces in minimal spells, creating an effect on the listener that reflects his views on the lived experiences of those existing in postmodern society - long bouts of discomfort, confusion, entrancement, struggle that are relieved by few and fragile moments of beauty, love, and release.

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